05-22-2025, 01:06 PM
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#5141
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by GullFoss
I think we're going to find out if this is true. I doubt it. Imo chu is gone, sharp is gone. McLean and Chabot probably stick around. In my experience constituents love Wong, but I think he faces tough competition.
Gondek is bad at politics and isn't likable. But she the only competent contender at this time. She will win a lot of votes.
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I'm curious where you're hearing this. I live in ward 7 (Capitol Hill) and I have literally never heard anyone say they liked Terry Wong. We must be living in totally different bubbles. Among people I've talked to, most lament how completely ineffectual he is. Some hate him and some have no option but most want him to start actually doing something.
Ward 7 will be a tough election for sure. I'd be surprised if the winner gets more than 35% of votes.
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05-22-2025, 01:27 PM
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#5142
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Powerplay Quarterback
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How does the muni party system work? Do candidates have to declare a party affiliation or run as independent?
Last edited by WideReceiver; 05-22-2025 at 03:38 PM.
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05-22-2025, 03:26 PM
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#5143
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GullFoss
Gondek is bad at politics and isn't likable. But she the only competent contender at this time. She will win a lot of votes.
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Eh, don't really agree there, and I sure as hell am not voting for her again after I did last time.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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05-22-2025, 07:08 PM
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#5144
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Calgary
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[QUOTE=wireframe;9428990]I'm curious where you're hearing this. I live in ward 7 (Capitol Hill) and I have literally never heard anyone say they liked Terry Wong. We must be living in totally different bubbles. Among people I've talked to, most lament how completely ineffectual he is. Some hate him and some have no option but most want him to start actually doing something.
Ward 7 will be a tough election for sure. I'd be surprised if the winner gets more than 35% of votes.[/QUOTE
Terry Wong is an upgrade on Druh.
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05-22-2025, 07:23 PM
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#5145
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by Don Benji
Terry Wong is an upgrade on Druh.
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Not for me. I dont agree with Druh on everything but she was amazing at getting stuff for the communities she represented. The city is spending money and Druh Farrell always made sure that we got a good share in ward 7 (I suspect more than a fair share). Also, she always seemed to understand the issues when I talked to her. Terry Wong isn't evil but he has no clue what people want or how to make it happen. He usually just repeats what city administration told him.
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05-22-2025, 07:27 PM
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#5146
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by wireframe
Not for me. I dont agree with Druh on everything but she was amazing at getting stuff for the communities she represented. The city is spending money and Druh Farrell always made sure that we got a good share in ward 7 (I suspect more than a fair share). Also, she always seemed to understand the issues when I talked to her. Terry Wong isn't evil but he has no clue what people want or how to make it happen. He usually just repeats what city administration told him.
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Different bubbles I guess. Druh ignored tons of us.
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05-22-2025, 07:58 PM
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#5147
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wearing raccoons for boots
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Former Calgary councillor Joe Magliocca, who was convicted of fraud for submitting 19 falsified expense claims to the city, has been handed a six-month conditional sentence order.
For the first two months, Magliocca will be under house-arrest conditions. After that, he will be bound by a curfew.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ence-1.7541365
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05-23-2025, 07:40 AM
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Former Calgary councillor Joe Magliocca, who was convicted of fraud for submitting 19 falsified expense claims to the city, has been handed a six-month conditional sentence order.
For the first two months, Magliocca will be under house-arrest conditions. After that, he will be bound by a curfew.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ence-1.7541365 |
Cool. Now do Maclean and Chu.
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05-29-2025, 10:06 PM
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#5149
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Kent Hehr is reportedly running for Council in Ward 8
Ugh
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05-29-2025, 10:27 PM
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#5150
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Can’t remember; other than him apparently being something of a dickhole, and having a horribly unfortunate name for rhyming slang, what’s the problem with him?
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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05-29-2025, 10:31 PM
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#5151
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Didn’t he get into trouble for calling a female staffer “yummy”? And just being a creep in general, and a Trudeau puppet when he was an MP?
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05-29-2025, 10:40 PM
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#5152
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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I should run for Mayor simply on the docket of:
"Fix the Roads."
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05-29-2025, 11:30 PM
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#5153
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
I should run for Mayor simply on the docket of:
"Fix the Roads."
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You’d be a Locke to win.
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05-29-2025, 11:35 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2015
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Can’t remember; other than him apparently being something of a dickhole, and having a horribly unfortunate name for rhyming slang, what’s the problem with him?
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Told thalidomide survivors to their faces that the challenges they faced as severely disabled adults was nothing more than a “sob story” and basically said that system would be better off with them dead. Exact quote was “‘So, you probably have about 10 years left now. That’s good news for the Canadian government.”‘
This was after he was thrown off the veterans affairs portfolio for making similarly despicable comments to them.
The dude is just a massive piece of ####, and is completely unfit for public office.
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Reason: Auto correct mangling sentences again
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05-30-2025, 06:56 AM
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#5155
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Wow. I guess I underestimated the degree to which he is, in fact, a dickhole.
Also that’s a bit rich for him to say about the system being better off without other disabled people when my understanding is he’s pretty expensive himself.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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05-30-2025, 07:04 AM
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#5156
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
Didn’t he get into trouble for calling a female staffer “yummy”? And just being a creep in general, and a Trudeau puppet when he was an MP?
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Most recently he was also the VP of the food services company here in Calgary which caused that major e-coli outbreak in daycares.
He's an awful candidate and better not win.
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05-30-2025, 07:51 AM
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#5157
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by puffnstuff
C.u.n.t Hair is reportedly running for Council in Ward 8
Ugh
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fixed
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05-30-2025, 04:05 PM
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#5158
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
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Dad’s name is Dick. Seriously.
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06-07-2025, 02:27 PM
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#5159
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Cowtown
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Add another union ready to strike, this time it’s those who maintain and respond to electrical incidents and outages.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11216964/...rike-vote/amp/
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Everyone who disagrees with you is stupid
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06-12-2025, 12:32 PM
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#5160
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Powerplay Quarterback
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'We feel pretty betrayed':
Rift emerges on the right between two Calgary political parties
'Our No. 1 goal was to avoid vote-splitting,' said Roy Beyer, the executive director of the A Better Calgary Party
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...itical-parties
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