POLL: Next Mayor of Calgary

[Sugarphreak]

The 2010 Calgary municipal elections are coming up this Fall and a new mayor will be elected. The three term incumbent Dave Bronconnier will not be seeking re-election this time around.

The official election will be held Monday, October 18, 2010

Most of the candidates do have web sites, you can read up on their platforms a bit if you are still undecided:

NEW! Barb Higgins
www.barbhiggins.ca

Alnoor Kassam
www.alnoorkassam.com

Bob Hawkesworth
www.bob4mayor.ca

Craig Burrows
www.craigburrows.ca

Joe Connelly
www.joeformayor.ca

Jon Lord
www.jonlord.ca

Kent Hehr
www.kenthehr.ca

Naheed Nenshi
www.nenshi.ca

Paul Hughes
www.paulinate.com

Ric McIver
www.ricmciver.ca

Wayne Stewart
www.waynestewart.ca

Gary Johnston
No Website... Also not included on the Beyond Poll

Other Unconfirmed Candidates
Barry Erskine

[nonlinear]

nice idea, dude! it will be interesting to see how well these results approximate the final vote.

[beyond_ban]

LOL @ results so far. Land slide victory for guess who...

[CUG]

You guys may not realize it, but beyond could pretty much by itself decide who wins the civic election. This was voter turnout in 07

Dave Bronconnier 128,112 61.08%
Alnoor Kassam 35,442 16.90%
Sandy Jenkins 16,531 7.88%
Jeremy Zhao 8,025 3.83%
Allan Foster 6,455 3.08%
David Bertram 5,549 2.65%
Elizabeth Kaur Fielding 4,010 1.91%
Harry Heck 3,811 1.82%
J. J. Sunstrum 1,813 0.86%.

I can almost promise the high turnout for Bronco was to make sure Kassam didn't get in.

[Sugarphreak]

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[hampstor]

I added Gary Johnston to your poll. PM me if you need me to add any others

[Sugarphreak]

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[masoncgy]

Originally posted by CUG
I can almost promise the high turnout for Bronco was to make sure Kassam didn't get in.

QFT... I wasn't a fan of Bronco but I voted for him over Kassam... I also dragged out a few buddies who don't vote and had them do the same.

We don't need Gargamel running our affairs... something is wrong with that dude.

[dezmarez]

So should all beyond members have to vote for the winner of this poll?

Would make beyond an even more powerful influence in Calgary haha

[reijo]

Would be great if all Calgary Beyond members voted on this poll......interesting to see how the results compare with October 18th!

Voting is a democratic right. Voting is the one time you can get your say.

If you don't vote, you can't bitch about who gets in.

Do it! Vote!

R

[Tomaz]

Ha! What a landslide.

[D'z Nutz]

I'd vote for McIver just based on the legacy his name carries (even if it's not spelt the same).

[Neil4Speed]

Originally posted by reijo
Would be great if all Calgary Beyond members voted on this poll......interesting to see how the results compare with October 18th!

Voting is a democratic right. Voting is the one time you can get your say.

If you don't vote, you can't bitch about who gets in.

Do it! Vote!

R

Saw this on Alnoor Kassam's site in the discussion section:

"You actually think you have a chance?

We don't vote in terrorists in this city. Piss off dirka dirka. You already blew a million bucks last time and still were a distant second."

[CUG]

Originally posted by Neil4Speed




Saw this on Alnoor Kassam's site in the discussion section:

"You actually think you have a chance?

We don't vote in terrorists in this city. Piss off dirka dirka. You already blew a million bucks last time and still were a distant second."

Seriously? The dirtbags that say shit like that are the people that keep this town a redneck shithole in some places. How the hell is Kassam even close to being a terrorist? I think he's a greasy dirtbag businessman, but he's no terrorist.

[G-Suede]

Originally posted by masoncgy
We don't need Gargamel running our affairs...

[kamakurakid]

Can you add "Who Gives a Toss" to the poll? I am there.

This city would be better run by an octopus and a couple of Mason jars.*


*World Cup story for those not into the Dennis Miller like line of thought.

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/wor...urn=sow,254898

[Sugarphreak]

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[G-Suede]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
Wow, I am genuinely surprised that Alnoor is getting so many votes on a Beyond poll.

Perhaps the votes are in-line with beyond's demographics?

[nonlinear]

Originally posted by G-Suede


Perhaps the votes are in-line with beyond's demographics?

absolutely, and that's why i think it will be so interesting to compare results from beyond to those from the municipal election. interestingly, neither is a representative cross section of the city.

[Redlyne_mr2]

Macgyver Mciver, he'll fix this city!