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Originally Posted by Zarley
Kent is a good guy, and in my opinion he got screwed around by Trudeau. Best of luck to him.
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Think of it this way: in the federal election, there are many ridings where a progressive candidate could legitimately win the seat but due to vote-splitting between the Liberals and NDP, the CPC candidate will sneak up the middle and win with a vote breakdown of something like 43% CPC, 41% Liberal, 12% NDP, 4% Other. If you're a progressive-minded person, you might rightly be upset at NDP supporters who cast their ballot for a non-viable, unelectable candidate when they could have elected the Liberal candidate. While it may not have been their #1 choice, most progressives would certainly prefer the Liberal to win than the Conservative and potentially having an overall CPC election victory.
The same thing is happening here in municipal politics. Progressive voters must coalesce their support around one candidate or else we're going to end up with Farkas in the mayor's seat. That candidate is Gondek. Kent Hehr is not going to win. He's not going to come anywhere close to winning. I say that as someone who personally likes Hehr and has voted for him in four previous elections. The only thing he will accomplish by entering the race now is siphon some progressive votes away from Gondek. If he genuinely cares about championing progressive causes in municipal politics, the #1 best thing he could do is withdraw from this race.
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This is just the same old strategic voting argument though. It pre-supposes that would-be Hehr voters would otherwise vote for Gondek, and I just don't buy that. I know Kent, so I'm biased and will vote for him.
But truthfully, if he weren't throwing his name in, I'm not sold on Gondek. She's had a few positions that don't sit right with me, and I don't know who I'd have as my second choice...maybe her, but maybe Davison. I haven't really looked at the full 28 candidate list, and I'm not sure that I could name more than about 7-8 of them.