markesmith wrote: » After all Canvasser's bashing of the other candidates, surprise surprise, he's backing a Fianna Fail man. And I see Frank Fahey is using a mass follow technique on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FrankFaheyTD (following 1,273, 124 followers). I know who I'll be voting. And it won't be Fianna Fail.
celty wrote: » Yeah, learning Chinese would be great, seeing as how FF have sold out our soverignty and bankrupt the place. An entire generation will have to emigrate thanks to his cronies, just like my generation did in the 1980s. They had their chance, and they blew it. It's the NECK of these FF canvassers that gets me. If I bankrupt the company I work for, I don't think I would call around to all the shareholders asking them to keep me on running it. That's the problem with Irish politics, so many people with huge necks and no vision. 'Fumbling in the greasy tills'. Go on, Mike ... buy up all your properties. That's just what Galway needs, another auctioneer in the Dail. Don't give me this crap about being young and not in Government. If you join the party of Haughey, Ahern, Lenihan, and Cowen, (liars, corrupt, and incompetent) then you deserve to get abuse on the doorstep if you go around asking people to vote for Crowe or Fahey. These people wouldn't even admit that the IMF were in Dublin when everyone knew they was. Our country was shamed all around the world. And you want us to vote for a man who somehow wants to pretend that he had something to do with the creation of new jobs which had absolutely nothing to do with him. Don't insult our intelligence. Give us a break.
AngeGal wrote: » If Canvasser is backing a FF man, I would be very confident it's Frank Fahey and not Mike Crowe.
ArtSmart wrote: » Hi. I suspct you're right out of curiosity, what are Mike Crowes business back ground/ experience.
AngeGal wrote: » As for owning houses, yes Mike owns some houses but I think you will find this is common across parties, at least two candidates in Galway west own much more and that's just two I know about.
AngeGal wrote: » I can understand anyone not voting for FF, but for Mike I wouldn't be.
AngeGal wrote: » First of all, full disclosure, I'm a friend of Mike Crowe's and will be helping him out over the next two weeks.
Amhran Nua wrote: » How many of those are in receipt of rental allowance, to the tune of tens of thousands of euros, from the council? Bit of a conflict of interest there, no? What I can't understand is how anyone could put their personal acquaintances before their country. There are overtones of Cowen's goodbye speech here, with his sentiments that "sometimes the country has to come before the party and personal interests". Also, interesting how one FF canvasser gets banned, and another pops up immediately. The show is over for the chuckleheads in FF, make no mistake.
AngeGal wrote: » Hi Amhran Nua, I honestly don't know the answer to your first question. I saw the article you are referencing, tried a google search but couldn't get it. I think it was 3 houses but I'm not sure and don't know how much money that would be. I don't think it is a conflict to be honest, these schemes were open to anyone who owned property, I'm sure there are others who receive more than Mike but we don't hear about them because they're not councillors. I don't really see why Mike should be essentially punished for being a city councillor and unable to partake in them when they are open to everyone.
The Mayor of Galway was this week forced to defend his integrity amid claims of a conflict of interest in relation to property dealings with Galway City Council. A row broke out at Monday’s special meeting on housing when City Councillor Catherine Connolly (Ind) accused Mayor Mike Crowe (FF) of having a conflict of interest in relation to him being involved in an agreement with the local authority under the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) Cllr Connolly was referring to a report in the Galway City Tribune last month in which it was revealed that Councillor Crowe is receiving payments in the region of €5,000 a month from the Council under contracts awarded to him as a landlord under the RAS. Most of the eleven properties Mayor Crowe declared in the councillors’ Register of Interests are contracted to the local authority under the scheme. The contracts guarantee landlords year-round payment of rental income by the local authority on behalf of tenants, regardless of whether the accommodation is vacant or occupied. When the quarterly housing scheme was being discussed, Cllr Connolly said the Mayor and other councillors who are benefitting from RAS, should not be allowed to discuss it. “You have a conflict of interest because you are involved in the RAS scheme. I’m simply saying that you should declare you interest in it and not comment on the scheme,” she said.
AngeGal wrote: » As to your second question, I can assure I am not the OP, I can also assure you that the OP has nothing to do with Mike Crowe. Mods are free to compare IP addresses to verify this.
AngeGal wrote: » Edited to say I'm not putting friendship before the country. I know Mike and in my opinion he is an intelligent young man who has much to offer in Leinster house. He knows the challenges of running a small business and he knows the difficulties people are facing. I wouldn't be mad enough to say he has all the answers but no-one will look harder for them.
Amhran Nua wrote: » I never said you were the same poster. I just pointed out that another one popped up after the first one was banned, which it has.
randylonghorn wrote: » Way too overdone a caricature to be real.
Amhran Nua wrote: » Here's the article, took about ten seconds to find it on Google. That's €60,000 a year straight into his pocket. I never said you were the same poster. I just pointed out that another one popped up after the first one was banned, which it has. His association with FF stands in defiance of your opinion.
Amhran Nua wrote: » Genuinely I wish you were right, but in the context of brazen and very official statements as mentioned above, it would surprise me not at all to find he or she was on the level.
AngeGal wrote: » don't see why Crowe shouldn't be allowed to be involved because he is a councillor.
AngeGal wrote: » You're entitled to your opinion and as I am mine and somehow I don't think we're gonna agree so I'll leave it at that.
Amhran Nua wrote: » It's called a conflict of interests. This is for example why judges aren't allowed to preside over the cases of people breaking into their house. In most modern, non backward* countries, this would result in the representative stepping down from their position. Or seeking elsewhere for funding. You can leave it at that if you like. *not to say that Ireland is backward, but its political system and FF most certainly are
AngeGal wrote: » Mike isn't solely in charge of this scheme, in fact isn't the council management/staff who would run it more so than councillors? The staff that was on strike a year or two ago and doesn't exactly love ff?
Sponge Bob wrote: » Crowes views on national issues have not been mentioned at all, is he always going to be a quiet little whipped in backbencher like Grealish was ??
AngeGal wrote: » Hi well his family own a bar in Bohermore so he grew up working in one and managed that for a couple of years. He then leased a few mace stores (Westside, Woodquay and one other can't remember where exactly it was) for 8/9 years and and ran them. After that he became a councillor, he was a part time auctioneer but that was very small ( the figures were in the advertiser a while ago, think he sold something like 18 houses, mostly for friends as far as I know). Since 2004, he's been pretty much a full-time councillor. .
McTigs wrote: » Whether Canvasser is for real or not he's doing an exemplory job of scuppering Mike Crowes chances of a floating vote or transfer. He's either a complete moron or a genius satire.... either way he's doing absolutely nothing for Crowes chances of election so to that end i would like to see the ban lifted. Real or not it's comedy gold Bring back Canvasser!!!!
skelliser wrote: » Crowe making money of the taxpayer with this rental scheme is imo a resigning offence. He shouldnt even be running after that. Just another brass neck FF'er ignoring common decency to line their own pockets.
gordongekko wrote: » Did anyone see his ad in the sentinal yesterday. All the items that he is trying to get done can are local issues that he probably could get done in his current role so thats another candidate i dont need to vote for.
996tt wrote: » In fairness to Grealish he withdrew support for the govenment in September 2010 over HSE cuts, unlike many of the other independents like Lowry/healy rae
