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Originally Posted by MarchHare
My take is Davison entering the race hurts Farkas more than Gondek. He's yet another conservative guy running on a pro-business platform. I don't always agree with Gondek, but my impression is she generally wants to move Calgary forward in a progressive direction. Davison is just Dave Bronconnier 2.0: a bought and paid for shill clearly in the pockets of developer interests who will do try to maintain the status quo for Calgary as it existed in the 1990s. He's likely to be an attractive choice for older and moderately conservative voters who would probably otherwise vote for Farkas over Gondek in a two-way race. I don't see him picking up many Gondek supporters, but maybe I'm reading the situation wrong.
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This is basically how I see it... except that I don't think there's a big difference between Gondek and Davison, I think the perceived difference is mostly performative.
But yeah, Davison is mostly a naked Corporatist shill who'll run on a pro-business platform and the pool of voters he'll draw from would probably land more in the Farkas camp then the Gondek camp.
Frankly I'd probably rather have Farkas as Mayor then Davison. Farkas isn't suited for the job, he doesn't convince people to vote his way as counselor and I don't see how he would be that much better at doing it as Mayor. Davison... he probably could. They'd both do a bad job but I think Davison could probably be more effective at doing a bad job.