Andy Wells, the worst person ever?

I loathe few political figures. I try not to hate them as I generally understand how hard it must be for a public figure and well they entertain me and I enjoy that. However there is one political figure I despise, his name is Andy Wells.

Andy Wells is the mayor of St. Johns and for those of us not on the up and up a man recently given the position of Head of the Public Utilities Board (a worthy choice as Pubs are something he probably knows much about) For those of us who have never seen The “honorable” Mr. Wells I'll give try to give an accurate description of him. He looks like Old Man Winter. Wait no, Old Man Winter with a constant hangover. Yeah picture Old Man Winter after a night on the binge and you'll have a fair idea of Wells natural demeanor.

It's not his appearance I hate, I'm not that superficial. I try to look for the inner goodness in my politicians, hell have you ever seen Jack Layton's mustache? No it's the fact that like most politicians he lies. Now I'm not trying to be cynical here but I think that we can accept it as a fact that politicians have been known to bend the truth, break it even, if it means the bigger piece will be on their side. Most politicians however have the brains to at least pretend like they're not lying. They try and make us believe that what they say is the truth and you know if we persist enough eventually we might even get an apology out of these “absent-minded” fellows. It'll be more of a shifting of the the blame but hell from them that may as well be flowers and make up sex!

Andy Wells however has the audacity to not only lie to us but then to make fun of us for ever believing him. Classy Andy, really classy.

Recently after being appointed Head of the P.U.B. he presented the city with a decision to make. He could either stay on as acting mayor and work as the head of the P.U.B. (both jobs he has described as full-time jobs and even got a raise in salary due to his workload as mayor), or door number two, he would resign and thus force an election to take place. Now in a cost efficient analysis it would appear that Andy as mayor would have to suffice seeing as the election would cost the city about $400,000 in taxpayers money. However, and rightly so, many people made the point that he could not possibly perform both jobs well at the same time. Therefore he placed the decision in the city's hands. Write, e-mail, fax, stalk, do whatever it takes to get the message to Andy as to what he should do. What a stand-up guy, letting the city decide its own affairs. Right? Wrong. Andy didn't think public forum had a place in democracy.

He stated recently saying that despite huge amounts of e-mails stating differing opinions he was going to stay in office and work at both jobs. He was quoted as saying “anyone who makes online petitions urging the mayor to resign are fooling themselves, and are fools to boot.” I feel like I did when I found out Santa didn't exist.

He even reverted to the age old political trick of name calling. When describing the people who e-mailed him asking for his resignation he described them as “NDP malcontents and environmental discontents”. That cuts deep. I hope a tree falls on you and you die Andy.

At this point Andy Wells just reminds me of a school bully. The kind who would take your money in the morning, promise to give it back if you didn't tell the teacher and then at the end of the day push you in the mud and take whatever you had leftover for lunch anyway. Only this time it's not our lunch, it's the taxpayers money.