I thought Farkas and Gondek were the front-runners with everyone else well behind. Then a pollster who supports Sharp and Communities First (is that the right party?) and donated money to her / them did a poll and suddenly it's a three way race.
As for councillors, I cross them off the list as soon as they mention "tax freeze." Taxes aren't a bad thing. The reason we elect a council is to run a city and do things like build and maintain roads, have a fire fighting system, etc. It's much more efficient and works better if "Calgary" does this than if each of us pays for / builds our own. And how do we pay for that? Taxes. You can argue that what a councillor chooses to direct our taxes to is wrong, but if your message is simply, "Taxes bad!" I feel like you either represent a political system I disagree with, or you're not very aware of what the role of councillor is and probably aren't ready for the job.
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