ROTHENBURGER – Announcing the 2023 Armchair Mayor Bad News Awards
(Image: Mel Rothenburger)
IT’S AWARDS SEASON. We’ve already had the People’s Choice Awards, the Hollywood Film Awards, and the New York Film Critics awards. Coming up are the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, and then it will be on to the Oscars.
The most prestigious of all, though, is one of the lesser known, which is sometimes the way it is. I’m talking about the 2023 Armchair Mayor’s Bad News Awards. The reason they’re lesser known is because they haven’t been handed out since the ‘70s. That’s about to change.
Back in the day, they were called the Kamloops News Annual Bad News Awards. The troops in the newsroom would sit around and toss out ideas for worthy recipients and we’d eventual narrow them down to a half dozen or so.
We no longer have printed newspapers but that’s no reason not to hand out awards. This past year has simply been too productive news-wise not to reprise them. So, the Armchair Mayor newsroom (that would be me; newsrooms have shrunk quite a bit since the good old days) has come up with some worthy recipients crying out to be recognized.
The envelopes please.
Mel Rothenburger is a regular contributor to CFJC Today, publishes the ArmchairMayor.ca opinion website, and is a recipient of the Jack Webster Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. He has served as mayor of Kamloops, school board chair and TNRD director, and is a retired daily newspaper editor. He can be reached at mrothenburger@armchairmayor.ca.
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Mr. Karpuk wanted so badly to score a point on the Mayor, that he used a fabricated flatus angle to attempt to embarrass the Mayor, but instead made himself look like a fool.
It’s too bad that the majority of Council can’t simply disperse into the air like so many flatus. The stench down at City Hall is becoming unbearable.
Some Councils build bridges to nowhere. This Council is itself a bridge to nowhere. Here’s to a 2024 full of more Council gaffes, and guffaws for the peanut gallery.
Happy New Year to Armchair, the readers, and the COK!
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Haha, so funny.
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After someone has gone to great lengths and expense to become elected to public office, it seems like quite the achievement to be remembered as the guy who made Fartgate a reality.
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The BC Supreme Court decision is absurdist theatre. That decision is so far out into space, it’s hard to comprehend what the judge was thinking.
In BC, the primary desire of politicians and the courts is to let dope heads turn our cities into the homeless wastelands of Portland, Seattle and San Fransisco. Taxpayer, your rights are nothing to that of the dope head who knowingly and purposely injects and smokes narcotics.
The needs of the dope head out weigh the needs of the many. And the needs are more dope, everywhere and anywhere.
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