2013 Calgary Municipal Election Thread

[malcolmk14]

There is literally nothing in your gobblede#### bylaws that state anything remotely related to your objectives.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

So are you lying now or was Corey lying to Markusoff?

Because it seems as though you did this as a big hilarious joke.



http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...561/story.html

Both?

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

So are you lying now or was Corey lying to Markusoff?

Because it seems as though you did this as a big hilarious joke.



http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...561/story.html

I say with confidence that the only ones laughing at this "joke" are those who signed their name on the Society Act forms.

I see this as doing nothing but make those involved look like fools. Big time fools.

Take your act south of the border, or at least to a part of Canada where no one can hear you tickling yourself.

[First Lady]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

So are you lying now or was Corey lying to Markusoff?

Because it seems as though you did this as a big hilarious joke.



http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...561/story.html

That's from a parody twitter account that popped up this afternoon.

You can see it here: https://twitter.com/CoryMorgon

Even Markusoff was fooled by it:

https://twitter.com/CoryBMorgan/stat...65060137766912

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by King Hippo

what's even more sad is the blatant rip off of the logo

the real one:


President Morgan's

If i was the (real) Civic Camp, i would lawyer up just for this. Don't ever let people pull this kind of crap.

[RedMileDJ]

Smoke and mirror tactics.

[V]

Holy crap, that's a pretty effective method to marginalize anything you may have stood for in the past or will stand for in the future. Honestly, I'm embarrassed to have ever sympathized with that moron, and will ensure it doesn't happen again.

What a completely juvenile, petty and amateurish move. Unbelievable.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by First Lady

That's from a parody twitter account that popped up this afternoon.

You can see it here: https://twitter.com/CoryMorgon

Even Markusoff was fooled by it:

https://twitter.com/CoryBMorgan/stat...65060137766912

That's really unfortunate.

[ben voyonsdonc]

Originally Posted by First Lady

That's from a parody twitter account that popped up this afternoon.

You can see it here: https://twitter.com/CoryMorgon

Even Markusoff was fooled by it:

https://twitter.com/CoryBMorgan/stat...65060137766912

An opportunity for merger? Maybe the real Cory can merge with the fake Cory to become less of a ######nozzle.

[Muta]

I like the fake Cory better. Atleast he can admit he's an idiot.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by First Lady

So much love here.


Mergers, acquisitions, takeovers happen all the time. Many of those in CC.org have already experience on that front.

So yes, I'm optimistic - once they get over their initial shock - they will find a way for this to work and be a positive for them.

You know.. I'm so happy you said this. To me, this states that your initial intent here is to try and squeeze a volunteer organization to either rebrand or buy their brand from you because they chose not to register with the provincial government.

You're despicable. On the level of patent trolls and domain squatters. Subversion of a group trying to increase civic engagement. Just disgusting. Are your kids proud of you? Grow up and try to do something good for society instead of this distraction.

[malcolmk14]

Originally Posted by First Lady

That's from a parody twitter account that popped up this afternoon.

You can see it here: https://twitter.com/CoryMorgon

Even Markusoff was fooled by it:

https://twitter.com/CoryBMorgan/stat...65060137766912

I think you missed the joke..... I highly doubt Markusoff missed that detail.

[malcolmk14]

I wonder if CivicCamp has a case to complain to the CIRA - this is clearly registration in bad faith.

[You Need a Thneed]

Jane & Cory, some of had at least some respect for you and what you do. This latest stunt pretty much eliminates that respect from myself, and I'm sure quite a few others.

Perhaps taking down the .net website immediately and ceasing to use anything to do with that idea will allow you to attempt to rebuild a tiny shred of the respect that you had.

[Table 5]

Once a greyed anus, always a greyed anus.

[MrMastodonFarm]

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Spoofing a volunteer organization's website is truly desperate gutter politics. Stay classy, haters.

[Flash Walken]

Psychopathy Checklist

Facet 1: Interpersonal
Glibness/superficial charm
Grandiose sense of self-worth
Pathological lying
Conning/manipulative

Facet 2: Affective

Lack of remorse or guilt
Emotionally shallow
Callous/lack of empathy
Failure to accept responsibility for own actions

Facet 3: Lifestyle

Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Parasitic lifestyle
Lack of realistic, long-term goals
Impulsivity
Irresponsibility

[Slava]

Originally Posted by 4X4

The guy running against the incumbant in my ward is obsessed with internet schooling. This election will be the first one where I actually care about school trustee. Can't say I'm a big fan of the idea of internet schooling. Maybe that's old fashioned, and maybe I just haven't thought about it too much, but at first glance, I don't like the idea.

I think attending school with actual people is extremely important to child development. I know he's saying that just some courses should be internet based, but I still don't like it. Kids need to be around kids, and under actual supervision of teachers. Good teachers are what inspire kids. For example, I remember my 20/30 Social teacher, Mr. Tomochko. What an awesome teacher. He kept me interested in that subject because his personality, and his great teaching skills. I can imagine that a subject like Social would be the kind of subject that would theoretically become an internet based subject, and I think it would seriously take away from the class.

Tomochko was awesome at getting discussions going in class. Students would ask questions and as a group, more learning was done. And the wicked stories and tangents he'd go off on just made the class one that I never wanted to skip. Because I know what I gained from that class, I can only imagine how crappy it would have been if that class was some boring click screen lesson that I took sitting in front of a screen.

Sorry for the long post.

TL;DR, I was just rambling.

We live in the same riding. To be honest I was a little bit happy to see him bring up internet learning. There are some big advances in that area, and while I don't think its the great panacea he seems to, it could help Alberta deal with some class size issues, or maybe help some kids learn really specialised topics from the 'one' teacher who is an expert and that sort of thing. His campaign is basically nothing though...he'll be slaughtered on Monday.

Originally Posted by GGG

If I want to vote against uquhart who has the best chance of beating her. Honestly I dont care what the other person policies are I just want someone who stands for something instead of a chemeleon who does nothing. I though it was hilariously representitive of her useless time on council that in Rick Bells who votes to spend money she came in at exactly 50%.

Anyway do any of the other people running have a chance?

Unfortunately no. I have a fair amount of regret for not running to be honest, partly because I am far from impressed with our choices and partly because residents here deserve a legitimate choice of a differing viewpoint. Maybe in 2017.

I haven't decided which to vote for personally. I'm leaning Sorokoski at this point, but its like a choice between two people with no opinion on anything and no real solutions either. Then some of the things they want to do...its just so far down my list of priorities! Frisch was talking about resurfacing the playgrounds to ,make them more handicap accessible. Honestly, that's laudable and noble. I'm not so much against it as I just don't know how you justify spending roughly $40,000 per playground in the wards when there are so many other issues. A councillor here ought to be concerned with traffic, transit and where the thousands of other commuters will go once they redo Shawnee Slopes and start building Providence. Start there, and work your way to issues like playground access.

[nik-]

rofl, that's sad.

[Rathji]

I opened the civicicamp.net website not really knowing about the .org site, and I was massively offended that anyone would waste bandwidth and storage space on the internet with that giant piece of crap.

I bet it took an hour to do, including the thoughtful grading of the candidates.

I am sure you people who are involved with the actual civiccamp.org are upset as well, and I can see why. If someone went to that site instead of yours, they might think you were idiots, just based on the site design alone.