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Originally Posted by Parallex
Honest question here... how did Chu get elected in the first place? I mean the guy isn't charismatic, says dumb things all the time, and constantly sounds confused at council meetings. Just wondering why people voted for this guy in the first place?
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Persistence. Gael McLeod was the incumbent and she had won a wide open race the election before with only 25% of the vote to Chus 21%. Her first term she managed to polarize the ward by doing crazy liberal things like organizing walks around the community and had a fair amount of negative buzz heading into the election. In 2013, Sean chu ran against her again with a much smaller slate of candidates competing against them, positioned himself as the conservative option and beat her by 3%.