Mayor Larry Dubya O’Brien

As his term has yet to reach the half way point there are more and more signs that Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien got too much political advice from U.S. President George W. Bush when they met last year.

Here’s the latest…

Regular readers of this blog will remember how Larry called two reporters into his office to discuss how his son posted rather offensive comments on this blog.  So Larry got a little ticked off during the interview, grabbed the CBC reporter’s recorder and tried to erase it and was caught on tape saying “How you do erase everything I’ve said so far?” yadda yadda yadda, just another hellish PR nightmare for Chief of Staff Eric Lamoureux to sort out.

Anyways, the Ottawa Sun’s Sue Sherring has on her blog today that Larry ran into that same CBC reporter over the weekend at Brewer Park and well, you can read the rest…

When O’Brien ran into (Alistair) Steele, who was at the park with his daughter, the mayor found it necessary to joke about it. “You don’t have your taperecorder with you, do you? Turn it off. Turn it off.” Are you sensing a pattern here? Again, not funny, just inappropriate. What would have been appropriate? An apology for the out-of-order behavior.

O’Brien also accidentally referred to Ottawa 67’s Coach Brian Kilrea as “Terry Kilrea”.  Now for those who don’t know — Terry Kilrea is the man who alleges O’Brien offered to get him a political appointment if Kilrea dropped out of the 2006 mayoral election.  O’Brien is now facing two criminal charges over those allegations.  Must have Terry on the brain?  Oooops!

Have I mentioned how much I love all of these new city hall blogs!?