Ongoing YYCCC (Chu + Farkas) Transgressions Threat

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Wormius

More sowing the seeds of doubt. I wonder why Crackmacs chimed in with this. Is this actually happening? I had to give my ID and my name was crossed off the list in the advanced voting stations.

They didn't have a list at my polling station today. I showed ID and they gave me a page to fill out with my name, address and signature. I asked why I had to fill it out, aren't I on the voter list? She said there is no list.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Wormius

The Save Calgary guy trying to get sued.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1450130385195597835

Man, the comments to that post are tragic.

"i looked closely at the voting machine and it wasnt connected to internet!"

I had this issue when i voted. It's entirely user error in that the person probably didnt fill out the form correctly. The best part is, if this happens, you know and they will give you a new ballot to complete.

It's not like these ballots are rejected without the opportunity to re-vote. This isn't hanging CHADS

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Jacks

They didn't have a list at my polling station today. I showed ID and they gave me a page to fill out with my name, address and signature. I asked why I had to fill it out, aren't I on the voter list? She said there is no list.

Was there something different between the advanced polls then? Seemed pretty well organized.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

It is funny how worked up some Calgarians get over the city’s taxpayers sending more money to the federal government than they receive in services so Manitoba and New Brunswick can build schools and hospitals, but they don’t seem to have any problem sending more money to the provincial government than they receive in services in order to pay for schools and hospitals in Bonneyville and Stettler.

Of course, rural Albertans who complain about equalization are even bigger hypocrites, when they benefit so much from transfers from Alberta’s urban taxpayers.

I agree, I definitely have a big problem with that. Specifically, the fact that farms don't pay property taxes based on assessed value is a huge fairness issue. Instead, their assessments are based on a formula that massively under values farmland.

That isn't an issue at the local level - if the individual counties want to overcharge residences and undercharge their main businesses fine. (Although historically many of them overcharged oil and gas instead).

But the provincial portion is a huge fairness issue. My father in law owns a piece of farmland that is probably worth $300k. He pays about $50/year in property taxes to the province.

Someone in an average Calgary condo worth less than that pays about 10x more property tax to the province.

[Minnie]

Oh. It's PedoChu.

Documents reveal Sean Chu admitted to consensual sexual acts with teen girl while a Calgary police officer

CTV News has obtained internal documents that outline details of a sexual encounter incumbent Ward 4 Coun. Sean Chu had with a minor while he was a police officer with the city.
According to the transcript of a disciplinary hearing, it was alleged that "on or about Aug. 12, 1997, Const. Chu became intimately involved with the young person who was 16 years old at the time,” and she had met him, “while he was on duty, in uniform, and in a position of authority.”

He was 34 years old at the time and admitted to “caressing” the girl on the leg in a public restaurant while in uniform. And then while off-duty and not in uniform, he told the hearing he “participated in consensual sexual foreplay” with the girl in the living room of his home. “In fact, Const. Chu relayed intimate details as to the sexual extent of this personal contact,” according to the transcript.

In a statement to CTV News on Monday, Chu maintains he did not know the girl was underage saying, “in 1997 when I was 34 years old, I met a woman at a licensed establishment where all persons are required to be 18 years of age or older and show identification. A witness confirmed Mr. Chu’s account of the facts and an internal hearing found that her allegations were without merit.” However, information obtained by CTV News indicates that the girl was not at an 18-plus licensed establishment, but that she was at a restaurant called the Husky House and Chu was only there at the request of another officer to drive the girl home when he touched her leg. CTV News has learned that instead of dropping her off at her home, he took her to his home where the alleged sexual assault took place, and when Chu allegedly pulled out his Calgary Police Service handgun.

Furthermore, according to information obtained by CTV News, Chu had met the girl during an unrelated investigation when she was 14 years old, two years before the sexual encounter. The LERB documents from 1999 also show that the girl had been appealing the matter over the course of nine years. She had filed a complaint against the officers who investigated her allegations, claiming there was misconduct and a “general coverup.”

One of the complaints was that she agreed to a polygraph test but when she called two days before the scheduled date and time, it was canceled without reason and never rebooked by CPS. The decision in the document from 1999 indicates her complaints against the officers were dismissed.

[N-E-B]

Am I the only one that thinks Chu not knowing she was underage is irrelevant? That flies if you’re 20. If you’re 34 it’s still creepy to be hitting on 18 year olds.

I hope he loses.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by N-E-B

Am I the only one that thinks Chu not knowing she was underage is irrelevant? That flies if you’re 20. If you’re 34 it’s still creepy to be hitting on 18 year olds.

I hope he loses.

Yeah it’s reprehensible. He picked her up at Husky House (which was just a restaurant), and he was in uniform. How did he escape criminal charges? This is astounding.

[PaperBagger'14]

^^ Well that's horrifying. How in the ever living hell do these people get in positions of power? Absolutely disgusting if this is true

[CactusJack]

Global news has a reporter stationed at Team Farkas headquarters and a bunch of his staffers are walking around maskless in the background during her updates.

[Fuzz]

That's way, way worse.

[La Flames Fan]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Are we talking provincial level or municipal?

I think nurses are doctors can take a 3-5% pay cut. My wife is a physician and god bless her she does great work but we will be fine if she took a 10-20k pay cut a year.

Nurse OT abuse is a problem.

I would cut all arts funding. Not sure if this is a provincial or municipal action.

I would institute a 2-3% cut across all departments.

I am not advocating draconian cuts here. I think 2-5% of property tax relief would go along way for people.

Here's what I'd say about Arts Funding, there is spill over to other industries and businesses. I'll be anecdotal, but I've had this happen many times over the course of our business.

An Artist gets funding to do a project within a community. The community uses that art as a backdrop to events, etc. I get hired to do photography and direct video, not by the art funding itself, but the community or private business. This happens a lot around town.

Even further, arts funding isn't just paintings, murals, infrastructure art - it's also theatre groups, indie films, choirs, and more. From my personal experience, we hire actors, crew, rent space, buy materials, and a lot, if not all, of that money goes right back into the economy.

On the choir front - believe it or not I'm in one - it's the same story. We don't get paid as members, but we perform at venues, do a ton of charity performances that help different entities around the city, rent space, A/V equipment and crew...on and on.

Arts funding helps, it's not always perfect and the ones that make the news are often controversial, but there's so much more than that

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

Here's what I'd say about Arts Funding,

..."who the hell wants to live in a world with the Arts?"

That'd be one hella boring world.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by N-E-B

Am I the only one that thinks Chu not knowing she was underage is irrelevant? That flies if you’re 20. If you’re 34 it’s still creepy to be hitting on 18 year olds.

I hope he loses.

Actually no, I don’t care at all what consenting adults do. You sound like a prude. Who am I to, ahem, police who a young woman chooses to have sex with. It seems condescending and very manspaining like to project your beliefs about sexual freedom, or lack there of, on women you don’t know. Men and women should be able to choose who they have relations with. We’d be better of if people could keep their petty judgments to themselves.


These weren’t legal aged consenting adults though. Chu knowing the young woman from a previous investigation as a minor, her being under 18 and him likely knowing that, him being in a position of authority and having been tasked with driving this young woman home and him breaking that trust and abusing his position of authority is absolutely disgusting and worthy of severe reprimands. He should have been fired (ha! As if the police union would allow that, you can beat a black woman half to death and avoid repercussions). The fact he abused his authority to keep this young woman safe and instead engaged in sexual acts is abhorrent. I’m not shocked at all that he and other police officers conspired to cover it up. Of course they did, they’re the police.

[The Fisher Account]

It was revealed today that Chu knew her when she was 14; two years prior. Reprehensible.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by The Fisher Account

It was revealed today that Chu knew her when she was 14; two years prior. Reprehensible.

Source?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Source?

Its in the article

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Source?

It was in Minnie's article. Easy explanation. He thought it was 4 years ago and not 2....

Furthermore, according to information obtained by CTV News, Chu had met the girl during an unrelated investigation when she was 14 years old, two years before the sexual encounter. The LERB documents from 1999 also show that the girl had been appealing the matter over the course of nine years. She had filed a complaint against the officers who investigated her allegations, claiming there was misconduct and a “general coverup.

[Northendzone]

I read an online suggestion that CTV has sat on this story for a week now. Regardless, surely there is no way that Chu will continue serve even if he is re-elected.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

I read an online suggestion that CTV has sat on this story for a week now. Regardless, surely there is no way that Chu will continue serve even if he is re-elected.

There was a publication ban so CBC News (who original broke the store) wasn't able to publish details from the documents until Friday afternoon.

[Parallex]

Hey... is there election night coverage on TV? Don't see it on the channel guide.