WHMIY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY,.JULY 10, 1991, PAGE 7 L 'k A 1 A l J I 1 1 PAGE SEVEN wNOT 5 T1L A andsr-off myor You will not read about it on the news pages of this or any other newspaper, but one more person bas joined Whitby's niayorai race. Hubert J. M Gon*gle, great-grandson cf journalist Peter J. Meûonigle,Ubnored The Free Press on Monday. night that he would make bis intentions public this week. "There is notbing wrong with the Town of Whitby that a littie leadersbip wouldn't solve," he, said in an exclusive interview. MýcGonigle, 52, has served in a variety of professions in past years. Upon leaving bigh school in the iddle cf the tenth grade, he worked as a reporter on the now-defunct Mid-Day Gazette as entertainiment critic. The Gazette at the time claimed te be the only newspaper in Canada covering billard parlours consistently.___________________________________ Following that, McGonigle for, several years topped the list cf used car salespeople ini an unnarïned village in Ontario. "ight up until the time I departed -- let's see, that would b. '68, maybe '69 -- most of the junk-yad dealers in the ares bought their cars from me. tbetter testimonial could a man aslcT' So great was his acclaim tbat on the day he left, McGoniglewa ecotd to the village -limits on aa sot .. .. make-sbift carniage made up cf cedar rails. Ini the ensuing decade, McGonigle worked as a supply teacher for several school boards. He augmented 'bis earnings as a freelance writer.- "1 learned much during that period cf time. irat, neyer try te, con teenagers. They can spot a hangover a mile f away. And second, publishers are cheap." (There are exceptions. Mconige evidently bad neyer met Doug- Anderson, owner cf The Whitby Free Press.) The followi'ng is an edited transcript cf our exclusive interview with Mconie: B.S.: 'fie first question: wvhy run for office? MéG: Firat cf all, Fminet a poitician. Vters are getting sick and tired cf poiticians, baven't you been CNTUTO FTEHRI UCNDA AII ALA,11 reading the newspapers? So I figure, niaybe we give te h anscu a etruh ti OSRC NOFTE HeRRSamuel HAarrIam, acfCoChrane St. Tis scen the option cf voting for somebody Who is not a politician. TheoolHgariscthwestmead the inhtheSae ri , as f Cochran t n o an Rd. Thirailway B.S.: Are you trying te say you woudrun on a ilme was o ened fo rvic inthe isterecof Ccr14.n osln d.Terala platform cf accountability, cf honesty? ln a pndfrsriei h umro 94 htyAcv ht McG: If that'Il get me elected, tben sure, why not? In WI1 ruv ht fact, let's start right now with the honesty.. I swear M'i keep hande off just about everything. I wcn't even go te Council meetings unless I bave te collect my pay. People 1 ER G are tired cf toc much government, toc much taxes. With 1 ER G Mcoil fryr , t4hey %Mned not wrry. I vw te dofrom the Wednesday, JuIy 8, 1981 edition cf tbe McG:- The same as my position on every other local er issue. I just moved into Town last year. I haven't heen te, a Councl meeting, I don't foleow local politice, I dont knew, a darned thing abeut what's going on. rd akethe perfect hands-aff mayor. 715 TZARS AGO trom the Thursday, July 6, 1916 edition of the WHTBY GAZETE AMD CBRNICLE BS.: Ignorance io bliès? -The Ontarjo County council wants, the K(ingston Rd. between'VWitby and Oshalwa. taken McG:- If it were, there weuld b. more oape n over by the previncial government. Town Cbuncff than peeple have a right *te be. You klow e'ie parish guild cf Ail Saints' Angican Church held a garden party at J.H. Downey's how pliticians have teownupte nycenfiict of interest home on July 4 onaytigbeoeconi? el:Iwud ipsto e Ratepayers who send their children te tbe Separate School on Palace St. are asIdng fer a »Declaration cf Ignorance, Act. Any oltician Who doesn'tý cement sidewalk on the street. _ know -frein beanis about an issue shoud b. required tosay e Concern is being expressed about false rumeurs of Whitby war casualties spreading se -publicly. That's my policy.. Up' front ignorance, Ifte tbrougbout the Town. .utimùte:inhboeôety.-___________________________________ ~ ....>.*~ . >., . M.