Promises made and broken – the Tony Guergis record

October 23 2010
This is what Tony Guergis said when running for Mayor of Springwater in 2006.
Guergis speaks, November 2006 all-candidates’ meeting.
“Issues that I see facing the municipality over the next term. First and I want to be clear on this one: Dump Site 41. I have been, I am now and I will continue to oppose and vote against Dump Site 41.”
His 2006 campaign flyer stated: “I will continue to oppose Landfill Site 41 and promote ‘energy from waste’ solutions.”
Within weeks of the election he ran for county warden (a position voted on by the 32 mayors and deputy mayors who make up Simcoe County Council) and reneged on his campaign pledge, becoming an ardent advocate for Site 41, He claims that his first vote on Site 41 as warden was for a moratorium, to look at other solutions for waste. That was a sham. Councillors were taken on a couple of trips in early 2007, but as Stephen Ogden told Dale Goldhark yesterday, even on the bus they were being lobbied to support Site 41 by Guergis and his brother David Guergis, running for mayor in Essa.
No steps have been taken during Tony Guergis’s tenure as mayor or warden to bring in energy from waste solutions. New technologies were specifically excluded from examination during the 2009-2010 process to arrive at a solid waste management strategy, adopted by county council in June.
Stephen Ogden talks to Dale Goldhawk on 740AM Boomer Radio – Friday, October 22 – about Guergis’s new expensive brochure (full-colour glossy and zoned for different areas of Springwater – Guergis is the only township mayoral candidate to be accepting corporate donations.)