DA sniping at Jordaan loses the party my vote
DEAR Athol Trollip,
I have been following your campaign to be the next mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay and in particular your constant attacks on Danny Jordaan. You will definitely not be getting my vote.
I will never vote for any party that constantly engages in politics of confrontation, but never offers any positive and constructive workable solutions.
Sir, your constant open letters and attacks against Jordaan are in my book nothing but grandstanding and cheap political opportunism.
Please inform us, the public, why you are constantly via the media asking Jordaan to account for something in which he has never been officially implicated.
It is my understanding that the US authorities have never named Jordaan as a suspect or a person of interest in their investigation.
The politics of your party only alienates intelligent voters from the northern areas and townships. I, as a coloured who was a teenager during the height of the struggle during the ’80s, can never vote for a party such as the DA that does not understand the dreams and aspirations of my community.
Your decision to boycott the council meeting where Jordaan was elected is a clear indication that we are not important to you or your party. Your claim that your party boycotted the meeting because of safety concerns and because you feared possible protest action by disgruntled ANC members is nothing but a smokescreen.
I was present at that meeting and it was conducted peacefully.
Your party was right about the possible protest though, but it was your own DA members who staged a protest outside the venue.
I saw a handful of DA members protesting and not the disgruntled ANC faction whom your party was referring to.
There are many of us who see through your election campaign and, to be honest, it sickens us. You may fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
I can’t see how your party can possibly win this metro outright as you have saturated your support base on a ward basis. The only way your party can win this metro is if you manage to take a few wards from the ANC in its traditional stronghold in the townships.
Granted, you have small pockets of support in the townships, but it is not near enough to give you victory in those particular wards. A few hundred supporters in the townships does not translate into a victory in a ward there.