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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I met Nenshi for the third time this last weekend in Vancouver. The guy is a rock star. People gravitate to him. He has style and folks like that.
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He went from being a big dork in grade school, to still being one now, just now he's the mayor.
He's a great example of how you can take talent -- in his case, intelligence and communication skills-- and become a rock star despite the fact he never fit in with the cool kids.
Compare your average oil and gas executive to Nenshi -- they're cut from a different cloth.
Nenshi can communicate so well that he doesn't need to be "cool" to be adored, and in his case he redefines "cool". He's an exception and the hero of all us regular folk as a result.
He's going to roll over any unfortunate mayoral contender in the next election. The problem is when you develop a following like he has, people tend to stop looking critically. He's taken some positions I'm not a fan of but its almost like there's no way criticism can stick with him-- he's too popular.
Anyway, I'm likely to be among the legions voting for him again, but he needs to be held in check. I'm not at all happy about him giving his managers a free pass on their wage raise fiasco which Nenshi managed to contain with a few short sentences. Those managers knew exactly what they were doing when moving to 3.5% for their underlings and to suggest otherwise is troubling-- if they're so shortsighted, why are they managing the entire city?