Duck-and-run strategy is far from mayoral – Winnipeg Free Press

As Gord Steeves left Bonnycastle Park on Tuesday, an aboriginal man in a smart grey business suit approached him and asked for a chance to talk.

The man, Kevin Hart, chairman of the Circle of Life Thunderbird House, had been watching Steeves respond to the controversy over Steeves’ wife Lorrie’s angry Facebook rant against “drunken native guys.”

Hart stood close to Steeves the entire time he tried to explain the two incidents involving aggressive panhandlers that prompted his wife to post the rant.

When the news conference was over, Hart calmly circled around the throng of media to intercept Steeves on his way to his car. When approached, Steeves declined to speak to him. Without breaking stride, he headed to his car.

Although it would be wrong to deduce too much from one vignette, the symbolism was hard to ignore. Gord Steeves wants this controversy to go away. He doesn’t want to talk about it to anyone — even to someone who may feel affected and offended by what was posted.

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