The mayor’s race in Port Colborne, Ontario, is pitting two estranged brothers against each other.
Bill Steele (left, photo below) was a city councillor for 17 years before being elected mayor, and was running for reelection unopposed until his brother Charles, a retired mailman, decided to take him on (read story here).
Charles (right, photo below) says, “I’m for the little guy,” and calls his brother “rightwing” and part of “an old boys’ club” that constitutes “a powerful elite” who raise taxes and water rates, and don’t understand the financial pressures on pensioners like him.
He’s been running a grassroots campaign, and when he debated his brother last week, it was the first time they’d spoken to each other in years.
Sounds like a typical small town to me, which is why I live in a city (among other reasons). The Steele family feud (and what family doesn’t feud?) gives the locals something to gossip about. And in this case, they’ll get to name a winner and a loser at the ballot box. What delicious fun!
