Who is Running the City of Nanimo?

Nanaimo - Only a few months ago, when those vying for Nanaimo's votes were on the campaign trail, pretty much everyone spoke of being for more accountability and for better accessibility. And now here we are barely three months later with a proposal to move the committee of the whole meetings to a time of the day midweek that is not accessible to working people, into a room that only holds 20 people as spectators, and not only to stop broadcasting the meetings live, but to actually not even record the meetings. And all this while Coun. Gord Fuller, who has expressed his opposition to this idea, in lying in ICU at NRGH. Is this proposal for real? Who is going to go into the record as the mover and seconder of this motion? And who will be written into Nanaimo's history books as supporting this anti-democratic travesty? The next elections may be still years away, but this will be a historical moment for sure, and one people will remember. Are Nanaimo politics really going to sink to this level of cynicism? Someone tell me this is only a bad dream, and please wake me up softly. Ilan Goldenblatt Nanaimo © Nanaimo Daily News