Rideau Rockcliffe Ward Newsletter BINGO
A bingo card built from Councillor King's weekly newsletter
I went back through several months of the councillor's newsletters to build this properly. It turns out the "politician speak" playbook doesn't just show up at podiums — it shows up weekly, in your inbox, in a very consistent rotation of moves: event attendance, program-launch filler, road-closure notices, self-credited "wins," and the occasional line that sounds like accountability but isn't attached to anything checkable. Here's the card.
- Open the next Ward newsletter (or pull up last week's).
- Mark a square every time you spot the pattern — the exact wording varies week to week, but the move repeats.
- Five in a row: you've spotted the format.
- Full card: ask yourself how many of the squares told you something you could actually act on, verify, or hold him to a year from now.
| "I enjoyed / was pleased to attend..." (event recap, no substance) | "Great turnout for..." (photo-op filler) | Road closure / construction notice (recycled almost verbatim week to week) | Program registration deadline reminder (not his program, just relaying it) | "Meaningful steps forward" or "significant decision" (vague self-praise) |
| "A position I championed during budget deliberations" (self-credit, no vote record shown) | "As I told [media outlet] this week..." (quoting himself) | FREE Zero mention of the St-Laurent tunnel, again |
New City program launch announced as if it's his own initiative | Bursary / grant deadline reminder (informational, not political) |
| "The data has answered that" (asserted, not shown) | Volunteer/community event plug with no ward-specific news attached | Waste collection / curbside schedule update | Tree planting / Plant Your Place program update | Crime Stoppers / general OPS reporting reminder |
| "Fundamentally change how we..." (institutional-scale claim, no metric) | Consultation/open house notice with no mention of past consultation outcomes | Anniversary of a past announcement, re-announced | Committee update with no vote breakdown | Newsletter ends without a single number you could check |
| A genuinely useful piece of ward info (yes, it happens — mark it anyway) | "I look forward to..." (non-commitment dressed as commitment) | Multiple past newsletters recapped in one issue (padding) | A City-wide program presented as Ward 13 news | No mention of LRT oversight, OPS Board findings, or Lansdowne 2.0 |
Built from an actual read-through of his newsletters — not a hypothetical.
Play to win this time
The generic "politician speak" card works anywhere. This one is specific: it's a content audit disguised as a bingo card. If you fill five in a row most weeks, that's not bad luck — that's a format. Community associations, tree distributions, and waste collection dates are genuinely useful, and I've marked a square for that too, because credit where it's due. But count how many squares in a typical issue are about something you could verify a year from now, versus something that just sounds nice for thirty seconds.
— Peter Karwacki, candidatw, Rideau Rockcliffe Ward
For entertainment purposes.
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