Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Rotterdam where both his greatness as smallness shows


The government gets its authority never gift, but must prove themselves again and again. They were wise words, which the former mayor of Rotterdam, Bram Peper, then as Minister of Home Affairs, the second cabinet-Cook with a stinging essay on continued sharp. The momentum of the first cabinet was lost, the second threatened to become entangled in a little confidence management culture.

Pepper never had the same fear that he may soon own the veracity of the claim had to prove, in the so-called receipts affair: as mayor he would wrongly many tens of thousands of dollars have declared, that money was spent on private travel, luxury cars partyschip at the Municipal Port Authority and exuberant drinking. A relentless struggle for self-justify followed. That he could shake off predators but there were no hard evidence. But meanwhile he was minister and his relationship with Rotterdam seemed permanently disrupted.

Onbehaaglijke with this situation now seems happy to have an end. This week was Pepper in the Rotterdam city hall and unveil his portrait was after ten years filled the empty spot in the corridor with Rotterdam Mayor portraits. The town hall is on order, found a happy mayor Ivo Opstelten. And in his word thanks also noted a Pepper satisfied that both parties are going about their shadow burst.

In short, ending all right. Although? You will happen but that several raadsfracties, including those of Peppers PvdA, the opportunity yet again to the mayor aangrepen thoroughly to pepper the town that he is still guilty of some sloppy thirty thousand euro is unjustified because declarations. This suggests that the council is still high. And part is that sometimes to understand. Not that Pepper ever a penny stuck in his own pocket. What, however, still sticks, consideration is the way he thought to hurl money, without having to justify it. He was, as he claimed, 24 hours a day for the town in rope. Then we also had not whine about a few dimes more or less.

Conversely, the council during his term of office, there never has made a point of. Then it is not so many years later to continue to whine. Evil is human, is still angry devils, and how then do after such a grand gesture to small.

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