Freddie P's Blog

August 22, 2008 @ 07:52

Mayor Miller's excuse for not attending the funeral of firefighter Bob Leek doesn't wash with me.

Miller claims he flew back to Vancouver for his daughter's birthday, and he put it this way.

"I think everybody understands that as a father you have to be with your daughter when she's turning 13."

I don't.

If your daughter's birthday falls on a Tuesday, you can celebrate it on a Wednesday or a Thursday. The kid doesn't care as long as the gifts are there.

I know at 13 my daughter would have understood me not being able to be at her birthday if the reason was valid. Thirteen year olds can reason pretty well these days.

And what's the big deal about turning thirteen. Unless, as Sue-Ann Levy wrote in the Toronto Sun yesterday- "the mayor converted to Judaism when no one was looking? If turning 13 is such a big deal to him, did his daughter have a Bat Mitzvah?"

Regardless of what Miller says, or what the cult of left wing loonies that follow him around say, he should have been at the funeral of firefighter Bob Leek.

Leek died on the job and that should have taken priority for the Miller. Yea, the timing was bad for the Mayor and it screwed up his plans, but it comes with the territory and its one of those sacrifices you make when you take on the job of running the largest city in Canada.

It was unbelievably selfish, and for Miller to use the excuse that he talked with Leek's wife before going back to Vancouver, and she said it was cool for him not to be there, is ridiculous. What else is she going to say in that situation?

It should have never to come to that. It should have been a no brainer. He should have been at the funeral and then got back on a plane and celebrated his daughter's birthday. When you think about it, how much of a disruption would that have been, six or eight hours?

It's pathetic. Just another pathetic example set by a man who's systematically ruining a great city.