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“Some uninformed, uneducated councillor who thinks he’s going to make a new career when he’s way past his due date.”

That’s how Sandra Pupatello, outgoing CEO of the WindsorEssex Economic Development Corporation, described city councillor Hilary Payne, who has questioned the corporation’s work, at a news conference Monday to announce she’s leaving the troubled organization.

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“Every community has some guy who does this sort of thing, who gets off on trying to be that guy,” she said, practically spitting.

Someone should “really just shut him down,” she said, saying council should “censor” him.

If she had been able to speak freely, she said, “I would have lopped his fool head off a long time ago.”

This isn’t speaking freely? She had more heads rolling than the French Revolution.

“She said that at the press conference?” asked Mayor Drew Dilkens.

It was withering. It was ugly. It was the most stunning exit I’ve ever seen.