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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOttawa mayor flies rainbow flag at city hall; tells angry voter, 'I really don't want your vote'
Source: CBC News
Mayor Jim Watson received hundreds of retweets and favourites on Twitter when he announced on the social network Thursday that the Pride flag would fly at City Hall until the end of the Olympics.
But at least one person was not pleased with the move, telling the mayor: "This is a stupid waste of time. You've lost my vote."
Watson's response also went viral.
"If you have that point of view, I really don't want your vote," the mayor tweeted back.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/jim-watson-tweet-in-support-of-pride-flag-goes-viral-1.2527649
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Skittles
(153,275 posts)yes INDEED
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Was that Rob Ford?!?!
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)Hours later Ford wakes up confused, on an park bench in Ottawa, remembers nothing and denies that he's ever been to Ottawa.
C_eh_N_eh_D_eh
(2,205 posts)I just might vote for him next elec... oh wait, he's a Grit.
Meh, could be worse.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,067 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)Want to visit Prince Edward Island?
gLibDem
(130 posts)I wish Wendy Davis had said that instead of announcing her support for an unneeded gun law that will only encourage fear and bullying through inappropriate shows of force.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Cha
(297,975 posts)Yay!
wocaonimabi
(187 posts)ALL RWers and TeaHadists need to be treated that way. Refuse to put up with the BS and publically call them on it every time they do or some thing stupid, racist or hateful.