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Originally Posted by MarchHare
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.
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I get this. I just think he started banging the drum early enough that if this slate of councillors do end up operating in a clearly pro-developer manner, it will be pretty easy for the Mayor to flog the crap out of them publically on twitter, etc., and be on the right side of the issue with Calgarians. I guess what I'm saying is that your Wenzel would really prefer to advance their agenda quietly and without the bright light of public scrutiny shining down on every action taken to that purpose, and that's not what's going to happen in this environment.
Given that, you'd think a Wenzel acolyte councillor would be motivated to give the impression of not being completely in the pocket of developers for fear of being repeatedly painted with that brush and potentially ousted next go-round.
Maybe that's super naive, I don't know.