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Originally Posted by Slava
I was speaking with some people this morning and while it seems like Prentice should win in a landslide, they were shocked at how many "red tories" were voting for McIver. Take that FWIW, which might well be nothing.
I saw Prentice speak in his role as a banker and he really impressive. It might be just the state of politics in the province, or depends on what you are comparing him to, but he was head and shoulders above what the leaders at the time were capable of. Now he wasn't speaking on political issues at that point, and it was a business-friendly crowd, so who knows what you can take from that. All I know is that I was impressed, and that had nothing to do with politics because he wasn't in politics at that point and not running for anything.
I did hear a very favorable report on McIver today as well though. I don't want to divulge where, so I will keep this really broad. Basically they met with him months ago and he didn't know anything about the particular topic. They gave him a lot of information and sources of information. When they met again a couple of months later he was totally educated adn could speak on the topic. Not that they completely agreed, but he had clearly done his homework. Again, maybe thats worth absolutely nothing, but I thought it was interesting.
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I expected McIver to win the mayoral election in Calgary but that did not work out. I think he is actually a good politician in that he actually seems to be focused on listening to and meeting the needs of the voters.
I just looked at the donor lists for the three candidates and I am disappointed to see that my MLA was contributing to Lukaszuk's campaign. I really can't stand that guy.