I guess I would need to ask on his quote about Wenzel never asking for a meeting. Why would he, Nenshi pretty much portrayed him as the enemy during the campaign. You could really portray Nenshi's use of Wenzel as the boogey man as fairly hostile. Neither sides were angels here obviously, but I can see why Wenzel wouldn't bother with a coffee with a man who made him look like an enemy of the city.
I have to admit that I'm intrigued by the merits of this case. I think that if there was a negative to the campaign that our mayor ran is that he effectively portrayed the builders as the enemy of anything good, and as anti-democratic demons.
Whether this gets in front of a judge or not remains to be seen.
I'm not clear on what Nenshi said that lead to the final straw I'm suing moment, but a lawsuit like this does open a dangerous precedence that's not covered when candidate A attacks candidate B. In this case it was Candidate A attacking outside of the election citizen.
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