Remember This?

Back in April of 2010, while smear-campaigning, Barry Dingwall sent out this email:

Barry Dingwall

From: Barry Dingwall <barryinbarrie@yahoo.ca>
To: Barry Dingwall <barryinbarrie@yahoo.ca>
Cc: Lorne Levy <LLevy@GOV.NU.CA>
Sent: Mon Apr 19 18:25:54 2010
Subject: Fw: Kearney Mayor Councillor Honouraria & Expenses 2010

To One and ALL

A little more insight into why our taxes are so high.


Barry Dingwall

And at the time, even the Proudfoot Four's key supporter Robert Pritchard saw the pettiness and mean-spiritedness of Dingwall's tactics:

 

J. Robert S. Pritchard

From: Robert Prichard
To: 'barryinbarrie@yahoo.ca' <barryinbarrie@yahoo.ca>
Sent: Mon Apr 19 22:20:40 2010
Subject: Fw: Kearney Mayor Councillor Honouraria & Expenses 2010

Barry,

I regret your circulating this, particularly at this time.

The amounts are modest in every respect. I wouldn't take on one of these roles for ten times the pay given the attacks and nastiness that come with them. Surely no one could believe the amounts are excessive. I am more than happy to pay my share - we pay taxes on four cottages, 13 lots on Sand Lake and a 100 acre property on Little Loon which is not a small bill.

Circulating this now can only be seen as an attack on the Mayor, the very person we are asking to unite us. Coming from you as a leader of the association that has had the most difficulty getting behind the resolution just breeds distrust instead of finding common ground.

I beg you to do all you can to contribute to unity at this time. Let's keep our eye on the big picture where we are making big progress and not be distracted by the little stuff.

Rob

Sent from my BlackBerry

 

But now that Councillor Dingwall is stuffing his own pockets, he's not objecting to two honouraria increases in two years. Especially now that he'll get his new salaried honouraria no matter how little he does. 

Are you surprised?