Say You’re Sorry, Tim Tierney
With the proviso that free advice is usually worth what you pay for it, here is some brave on-sale thought for Beacon Hill-Cyrville Councillor Tim Tierney.
It is embarrassing watching you run around making excuses for having your picture taken in a posed shot wrongly throwing a safety cone from a highway ramp.
It was a gruesomely bad mistake. The action sets a terrible example for ill-considered action. Your agent is surprised that a councillor, who has so much more wisdom than we commoners, continues to follow this faulty track of logic. You preach safety as an excuse for your bad judgment in throwing the cone. It is incongruous and diminishes you. That’s not the look you want to give if you seek higher office down the road.
So here is the bargain-basement advice:
Say you are sorry. People respect people who admit they made a mistake and apologize. It is the right thing to do. Say you will brush up on road safety and construction and do it.
Real men say they are sorry when they are wrong. It’s not much but it’s all you’ve got.
These are serious times. They demand serious people. Making excuses does not make you look serious. Not only look serious, but be serious.
And a bit more advice.
Stop with the snow-plow naming or grandstanding about disappearing white lines on highways (get the lines re-painted instead) or making a big deal about your Nickelback tattoo for media consumption.
That’s Watson politics, yesterday’s politics and look where he is now.
Say you’re sorry, say you will educate yourself on road construction safety, do it and become a councillor who takes himself and the job seriously.
People want weight in a person in office who deals with important public policy.
Help get the train repaired, finish it fast, stop spending money on frills, fix the budget and stop the fingernails-on-chalkboard excruciatingly staged publicity stunts and photo ops.
Get serious for serious times and treat your position with good sense and respect. Public policy is not a political game. It’s important.
And in turn, people will respect you.
Ken Gray
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‘Twas a time when we were younger when Canadians repeatedly said “eh” or “eh?”. In the last 10 to 15 years this has been replaced by “sorry” as the refrain we hear most often. A few weeks ago I was looking at books in my local bookstore from a distance of about 5 feet when a lady walked in front of me and said “sorry”. All that was really required was “excuse me”. I have noticed that when Canadians do something worthy of an actual apology, we dig in our heels and refuse to do so. What Tierney should do is pretty simple, 2 words in fact, “I apologize”. Simple action, then we all move on.
Perhaps Councillor Tierney’s ‘sorry’ would be meaningless because throwing a prop is his shtick?
Given the sad state of this city’s affairs, it’s likely the best he’s got.
Let’s face it, Tierney definitely is not mayor material … none of them are.