10-19-2021, 05:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Calgary
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I heard on the radio that Farkas is being consistent in not accepting his pension and transition allowance. It amounts to over $200k so I have to give him props on that.
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10-19-2021, 05:01 PM
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#584
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The transition allowance, sure. But he declined the pension years ago and has been paid extra salary as a result ever since.
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10-19-2021, 05:04 PM
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#585
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by kn
I heard on the radio that Farkas is being consistent in not accepting his pension and transition allowance. It amounts to over $200k so I have to give him props on that.
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Kind of.
A good portion of that $200k is his pension, which would be ~$9k/year, but he doesn't get anything for it until he is (I think) 65. So it's not like he's walking away from a $200k cheque.
This is what bugs me when people talk about city hall pensions. They throw out stuff like "He's entitled to $9k/year", and leave out "starting in 2051".
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10-19-2021, 05:06 PM
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#586
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The transition allowance, sure. But he declined the pension years ago and has been paid extra salary as a result ever since.
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Didn't know that about the extra salary, but it does make sense, and it is pretty on brand for Jeromy to leave out something of an important detail.
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10-19-2021, 05:07 PM
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#587
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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Actual Article Headline:
EXCLUSIVE: Chu vows not to resign, apologizes and speaks out on allegations
Quotes by the subject of the article:
Once there, the pair “started kissing and hugging, but there was no intercourse,” said Chu.
Chu admits there was “some touching underneath clothes”.
Article Headline (If I was writing it):
Newly Elected Councilor Admits to Sexually Assaulting Under Age Girl.
But hey, semantics.....
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Other than the head line I thought that article was well written in that it specifically disclosed what evidence the paper did and did not have. Addresses any potential direct lies from Chu and is fairly dispassionate.
It essentially defines the best case scenario for Chu which is your headline above.
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10-19-2021, 05:07 PM
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#588
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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That Jason Luan comment pisses me off. This shouldn’t be a race thing. You shouldn’t vote for someone because of their nationality. I guess I should have voted for Joe Magliocca just because we are both Italian? No, I didn’t vote for him because he is a tax thief. What an idiot. On a side note, if Chu won simply because the Chinese community in ward 4 voted for him because he is Chinese then that is a disgrace.
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10-19-2021, 05:08 PM
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#589
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Calgary’s new mayor says first order of business to declare ‘climate emergency’, ‘move past’ oil and gas
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Newly elected mayor of Calgary, Jyoti Gondek, announced this morning in her first interview as mayor, that her top priority is to declare a ‘climate emergency’ in the city of Calgary.
Gondek said that Calgary has had ‘years’ to declare a climate emergency, and now is the time ‘to get serious and declare [a climate emergency]’.
In an interview with Ryan Jespersen, Gondek says this is a bold move and asserts such a claim would bring capital to Calgary.
She also said Calgary became ‘fixated’ on an end product of energy production being oil and gas and that Calgary needs to ‘move past’ that.29dk2902l
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10-19-2021, 05:12 PM
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#590
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No, Jason Luan, please don't lump me into this POS! Thank you.
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10-19-2021, 05:23 PM
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#591
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by Zarley
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Its a bold strategy Cotton, lets see if it pays off for her.
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10-19-2021, 05:25 PM
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#592
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by The Familia
That Jason Luan comment pisses me off. This shouldn’t be a race thing. You shouldn’t vote for someone because of their nationality. I guess I should have voted for Joe Magliocca just because we are both Italian? No, I didn’t vote for him because he is a tax thief. What an idiot. On a side note, if Chu won simply because the Chinese community in ward 4 voted for him because he is Chinese then that is a disgrace.
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My wife is half Italian, half Hungarian. Magliocca-Farkas dream team, am I right?
(She didn't).
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10-19-2021, 05:29 PM
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#593
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its a bold strategy Cotton, lets see if it pays off for her.
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Was that in her platform? If not I'd say announcing a new top priority one day after the election is a bit much.
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10-19-2021, 05:30 PM
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#594
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its a bold strategy Cotton, lets see if it pays off for her.
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This is the problem. Why can't we have sensible leadership? It doesn't have to be oil and gas 'war room' vs. virtue signaling nonsense.
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10-19-2021, 05:32 PM
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#595
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Toledo OH
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Originally Posted by The Familia
That Jason Luan comment pisses me off. This shouldn’t be a race thing. You shouldn’t vote for someone because of their nationality. I guess I should have voted for Joe Magliocca just because we are both Italian? No, I didn’t vote for him because he is a tax thief. What an idiot. On a side note, if Chu won simply because the Chinese community in ward 4 voted for him because he is Chinese then that is a disgrace.
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Agree with your post whole-heartedly, however Diaspora politics is something that's entirely a strong and growing force in Canada. In some wards, ridings, etc. in Calgary entire elections are routinely decided by these factors. It's even more common in party politics because the raw threshold of votes required to determine a candidate nomination process is lower than in the actual election.
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10-19-2021, 05:33 PM
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#596
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: North of the River, South of the Bluff
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its a bold strategy Cotton, lets see if it pays off for her.
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Nenshi was a dramatic no doubt, but he was smart on where to apply it.
This is exactly why I always said Gondek doesn’t turn my crank. She’s can’t resist a good drama scene at the expense of political capital.
If there is a scene to be made Or a finger wagged you know who would be in the middle of it.
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10-19-2021, 05:37 PM
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#597
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Originally Posted by Zarley
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Well.
That's not a great start.
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10-19-2021, 05:39 PM
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#598
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Re: baffling voting outcomes
There’s a generational and education gap at work here. Most of us here get our political engagement online. We follow policy debates, twitter feeds, and forums like this. We see politics through a particular lens.
That’s not the way grass-roots politics works for older and less digitally-engaged citizens. Especially at the municipal level, politics is personal and hands-on for them. They vote for candidates who come to their door. Or to the potluck at a community centre. Or the seniors rec centre. Who shake their hands, smile, or speak to them personally on the phone.
That’s why political campaigning is hard work. You need a ground game - literally pounding the pavement, walking and shaking hands and making speeches to a rooms of 50, or 20, or 10 people. Remembering the names of the ones you met at the last pancake breakfast. That’s also why Chu’s ethnic background might play a part - he has likely met thousands of ethnic Chinese voters in his ward personally, and spoken their native language to the seniors.
And that’s why these candidates who we regard as crackpots can get elected and re-elected - they work their asses off in their ground game. They’re very good at reaching out to the voters who aren’t on twitter or reddit, and who are disposed to vote for someone who took the time to engage with them in person and make them feel recognized.
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10-19-2021, 05:44 PM
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#600
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Uhhhh... that's illegal, right? That's got to be illegal.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Well.
That's not a great start.
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I'm not even sure what 'declaring a climate emergency' means in practical terms from the perspective of a City Council. She may have said it in her interview with Jespersen which I will watch later, but as it stands I can't imagine what that means for actually doing something.
EDIT: Thank you Ozy for that.
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