Saint John Energy Campaigns for Titus - and WE pay for it!

How would you feel if the organization that supplies power to your home was printing ads in the Telegraph-Journal promoting a candidate who is running in the Saint John 2008 municipal election?

Personally, I find it quite offensive; but, Saint John Energy has decided to do it anyway. Click here for a larger image.

Just take a look at their motto: “Provide safe, reliable electricity at the lowest rates possible“. I guess the ‘at the lowest rates possible’, doesn’t include trying to save money by NOT buying ads in the local newspaper.

At the moment, it should be quite obvious that there is an election going on. People should have the brains to know that printing ads in the newspaper, for a candidate who is running in the election, could be seen as a conflict of interest. No, actually, it’s completely in a conflict of interest - the interests of the people paying for it - the customers!

Remember their motto, I think it needs a modification - “Provide electricity while forcing our customers to pay for election ads”.

I will be contacting Saint John Energy now, and I would encourage each of you to do the same.

I will also be writing a letter to the editor. Here is their email address, in case you would also like to send one in: tjletters@telegraphjournal.com.

This kind of wasteful spending should make you wonder why rates go up. One thing I can say with certainty - paying for election ads isn’t helping fight rate increases - and it goes directly against their motto.

Saint John Energy - take a lesson from me, “spend our money as if it were your own”. Remember that the vast majority of us couldn’t afford to pay for an ad in the newspaper, why should you?