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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
I don't know that I buy this as a win for Wenzel. I mean, Nenshi essentially made the developers, and sprawl vs. community development, the central issue of this whole election process. He did so pretty emphatically, really; there wasn't a lot of equivocation as to what he's for and who he's against on that point. Yet he was elected with about 75% of the vote. That seems to me to be a mandate in favour of his policy views on this particular issue.
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I think most Calgarians know sprawl is an issue, but its a lot foggier to say how to manage it. The topic has simply just come out of the woodwork. This is why the sprawl issue worked well for Nenshi; most Calgarians know that their tax dollars are impacted by sprawl and its relieving to hear a candidate bring it to the forefront. Nenshi played all the right cards on this one IMO.