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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
That or that she's not talented enough to get a national job.
You just proved that name recognition is all you need, which is a growing problem in politics.
How can reading a script year after year be a good preparation for being a mayor? What that tells me is that she has zero mgmt experience, and if she has an ability to analyze costs, understand the effects of real life decisions or influence people with new ideas is purely by luck, not because of experience.
The only first hand information I have of her, is that an old boyfriend of hers (or who knows, maybe husband) is one of the crudest, immature, disrespectful humans I've ever come across.
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Lol. Not talented enough to get a national job, eh? Maybe that's the case, or maybe she wants to be in Calgary. Maybe CTV was compensating her sufficiently. You're basing your opinion on meeting some a-hole that you don't even remember the connection to her?
All of this lack of experience that you mention is true in most of the other candidates as well. This has much less to do solely with name recognition, and much more to do with name recognition that seems to be pretty clean. The chick has been a "local celebrity" for over 20 years and the worst thing anyone can dredge up is that she may have hooked up with someone in a limo, and that she dated an a-hole once?
Reading the threads here has me wondering why there's so much hate for a mayoral hopeful. Where are all the others' qualifications that she so sorely lacks? What has McIver done except say no to everything outside his ward, and blink on TV at superhuman speed? The only person in this race that I can see that has some sort of "credibility" is Nenshi, simply because he studies this exact science. Other than him, the others are a mish mash of regular old joes like the rest of us (and Higgins) that either won an alderman seat, or haven't even done that yet. So why the particular hate for Higgins? Someone please explain.