For those of you looking for my detailed reply which was referred to in the July 1 issue of the West Carleton Review I have to state that it will not be published. The reply, at its current state of completion [one point left to address] was over 4000 words in length as of June 27th plus hyperlinks etc. It spoke succinctly to each and every point in the letter. Unfortunately. the response was such that it could only be construed as being "Negative Campaigning" . As a result I contacted Mr. Dunn at the Review via email with a request to liaise between the writer of the item in question on my behalf. A portion of my email follows: "I find that the content of that response, regardless of how we try and alter it will place me, and my campaign for Ward 5 Councillor in a negative light. Yes, you could say I am avoiding publicly responding to the letter but, given the nature and content of the completed full length response is such that I feel obligated to the Voters of Ward 5 to make such a request. As you know, I did reply with a space constrained response to be published in the Canada Day edition … the full length response, should it be posted will remain on my website for the duration of the campaign as I will not hide from what I release on my website, I do wish to absolve myself from introducing what I perceive as a strong negative skew to the 2010 Election Campaign without having made an attempt to prevent it." I was advised via Mr. Dunn that the short reply would suffice the Letter's author and as a result, the LONG version will NOT be published or introduced as part of my campaign. The Short Reply is: