Mayor wanted to ban BlackBerry devices!

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September 30, 2008 at 3:23 pm · Filed under General

The buzzing of BlackBerries during meetings may be an annoyance to Mayor Stephen Mandel, but it’s something he had better get used to.

Civic politicians today voted down a proposal that would have prohibited them from using the electronic gizmos during council and committee meetings.

“I lost again,” Mandel later told reporters.

Other levels of government ban similar technology during meetings, he argued.

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Mandel said he doesn’t carry a BlackBerry.[...]

Source: Edmonton Sun.

Well, if he does not carry a BlackBerry he can’t know how much this nice device helps to keep up-to-date and be more productive!

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RedNightHawk said,

October 1, 2008 @ 10:28 am

I can just imagine when he does finally get a blackberry, he’ll have so much trouble balancing it in one hand with the reins to his horse and buggy in the other.