Katie Neustaeter has published eight pages of rules for engaging with her campaign on social media. We looked at those rules alongside her actual conversations with Kamloops residents.
I took Mike O’Reilly at his word about why flowers weren’t sent to the Mayor’s wife in hospital. Then I called the hospital and checked.
Mike O’Reilly invited Kamloops residents to ask questions. I took him up on it. Then I went back to the records behind one of his answers.
Katie Neustaeter told Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson “so sue me.” Given the history between them and the City’s decision to fund her legal defence, those three words deserve a closer look.
Kamloops Council has turned its existing pay policy into a bylaw, increased council expense allowances and added a new mechanism to recover money owed to the City. With an election approaching and an unresolved legal-cost dispute involving the Mayor and a councillor, the changes raise some questions about how Council pay should be set and recovered.
Mike O’Reilly was deputy mayor when Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson was absent from the June 23 council meeting. We now know O’Reilly had blocked the Mayor’s texts. So what really happened?