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How come the Mayor of Amity Island got re-elected when his voters were being eaten, one by one, by a giant shark? 

Good question.

Larry Vaughan is the Mayor in Jaws. And he is still the Mayor in Jaws 2.

Why wasn’t he voted out?

The Mayor became the internet's favourite joke about the importance of local elections.

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Here in Newmarket I’m running against Tom Vegh for Deputy Mayor and York Regional Councillor. At the region, he is pretty much invisible, just like the shark. 

In 40 ordinary meetings of York Regional Council in the 2018-2022 term he did not bring forward for debate a single motion which he authored. (Newmarket’s Mayor, John Taylor, does so regularly.)

Vegh’s forte is putting up lawn signs. That is his calling. It could be his full-time job.

If Tom wins, probably on a very low turnout, expect more of the same.

Disqualification

Of course, he could win and then be disqualified for breaching the statutory limits on campaign spending.

It almost happened after the 2018 election but Vegh was saved from that embarrassment by people in the development industry who bailed him out after his spending splurge. Their generosity (no strings attached!) allowed him to pay off his debts.

Vegh told Newmarket Today’s Kim Champion on 22 April 2019:

“… I was in a situation where the most I could contribute myself still left me with about a $30,000 deficit, and you can’t finish a campaign with a deficit like that, otherwise it’s considered self-funding, So, after the election, I started receiving a lot of cheques and some of those I sent back for one reason or another, if I wasn’t comfortable accepting it. But there’s a few there that I said, ‘Yeah, OK’.”

“Developers are only a small portion of the donations I received. Most of the donations I got was after the election. I already won and they just started arriving in the mail. And I had to pay off that $30,000 deficit.”

And he wants us to believe he is not in the pockets of developers.

Give us a break.

Gordon Prentice 16 October 2022

 

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I'm chatting with voters and getting my lawn signs in the ground. 

And this in a street where Tom Vegh signs stretched as far as the eye could see.

Here is the YouTube clip.

Gordon Prentice 15 October 2022

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Tom Vegh says he protects the countryside but the facts say different. His votes on York Regional Council open the way for the development of prime agricultural land in Ontario.

Here is my take on it.

Check out this clip on You Tube.

Gordon Prentice 15 October 2022

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We need a 15 minute all-day-two-way GO Train to and from Newmarket. ASAP. No excuses.

I am absolutely determined to get this moving. 

Check out this clip on You Tube.

FACT CHECK: The 15-minute service to Aurora is in phase one and is going ahead. We know that. Last August there was an announcement from Metrolinx saying they intend to take the service up to Bradford but there is no timeline and no details on how they can deliver a 15 minute service which may require complex and expensive grade separations. Metrolinx hopes to avoid that by using sophisticated signalling allowing the barriers at the level crossings to stay down for relatively short periods. The trains will be electric with rapid acceleration and they will be shorter.

Gordon Prentice 15 October 2022

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All across Ontario developers are refusing to build when they have full planning approval from their municipality. This is an under-reported scandal. They are sitting on land waiting for its value to increase. It's called land-banking. What about the people who need a place to live?

Here is my take on it on You Tube.

Gordon Prentice 14 October 2022

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