Rounding out my coverage of the 2009 city workers’ strike, a little screed on right-wing Councillors’ latest organized attempt to shit where they eat. Why? Because, hey, Mayor Miller has to eat there too.
The right lost yet another battle on Friday, July 31, when it failed to defeat the Miller-sponsored settlement with TCEU 416 and CUPE 79. But to the sink-the-mayor faction, the war is one of attrition.
The space for rational discourse shrank. The leftmost border of the reasonable shuffled right. And lefty columnists are now in the awkward position of having to defend the strike deal as progressive.