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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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Cal Wenzel and his cronies knew they couldn't defeat Nenshi for the mayor's seat, so their strategy was to elect enough developer-friendly candidates to form a majority on council without Nenshi's support. It would appear as if they were successful in that goal, unfortunately.