{"id":24550,"date":"2013-10-18T21:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2013\/10\/friday-rant-the-state-of-our-ward-councillors\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:57:33","slug":"friday-rant-the-state-of-our-ward-councillors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/friday-rant-the-state-of-our-ward-councillors\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Rant \u2013 The State of our ward councillors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My old mate, Patrick Cull, in referring to my abscence at Council Meetings and using my pet name for them, asked me recently; \u201cWhen are you coming back to the kindergarten, Alan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am a bit slow so would like to say Patrick that I will do so when I see all ward councillors putting the city FIRST \u2013 even if it goes against the political grain. After all a succesful growing city offers many more rewards than a city being ground into submission by petty party politics.<\/p>\n<p>Ward Councillors need to be a different political animal to the \u2018higher ups\u2019 \u2013 as representatives of the ratepayers, residents and the City they need to put the needs of the ratepayer, residents and the City FIRST followed in the far distance by the needs of their political party. Unfortunately petty party politics always seems to come first.<\/p>\n<p>For once I would like to see ward councillors make decisions based on prosperity of the whole and not prosperity of the portion.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old mate, Patrick Cull, in referring to my abscence at Council Meetings and using my pet name for them, asked me recently; \u201cWhen are you coming back to the kindergarten, Alan?\u201d I am a bit slow so would like to say Patrick that I will do so when I see all ward councillors putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3330],"tags":[3338,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-24550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-port-elizabeth","7":"tag-mype-co-za","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}