Time for some honesty: Nenshi - Overhyped Trend Vote?

[CUG]

Lets get honest here. Nenshi, the hipster's Messiah, the biggest trend vote since Obama, is barely a remarkable mayor. As a regular citizen of Calgary there are three things that come to mind regarding Nenshi:

1: He's pissed off the police service to the point where they're looking at closing district offices in order to maintain their current level of service.. instead of growing as planned.

2: He allowed work on the design bridge to continue past its deadline and over budget.

3: A lot of teenagers who haven't an ounce of political knowledge voted for him and swung the vote away from the only candidate who knew anything about civic politics.

Do you think that less mature teenagers and twenty-somethings will eventually realize that they're having the wool pulled over their eyes. Do any of you members in that age-range even realize it?

[kvg]

Once elected politicians all do roughly the same thing, eg, Bronco/Nenshi, Bush/Obama, etc..

I should have vote McIver though.

[Sugarphreak]

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[CUG]

It's too bad I couldn't design the poll to expose confirmation bias. Is there such thing as a psychological engineer?

[spikerS]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
McIvor should have won, Nenshi gets a big fat

For the simple reason that unlike Nenshi who cares more about being a social butterfly and is only now realizing you can't please everybody; Ric actually gives a shit about this city, he had experience with how it was run and was willing to make the tough calls where it counted.

Face it, if Nenshi had lost... he would be out camping with the Occupy movement right now.


Meanwhile we are facing an 8% tax hike (plus 6% next year and another 6% after that), our police service is being slashed & to top if off they are cutting the snow removal budget. We won't even get the same level of service as last year because they are cutting back on the residential cleaning now... WTF!

Without Ric, Druh has pretty much taken over with her eco-bs so we can expect giant sized green bins forced on us with yet another monthly bill to go with it.

+1

summed up my thoughts exactly.

[dandia89]

has beyond ever been happy with a mayor?

[civic_stylez]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
[B]McIvor should have won, Nenshi gets a big fat

For the simple reason that unlike Nenshi who cares more about being a social butterfly and is only now realizing you can't please everybody; Ric actually gives a shit about this city, he had experience with how it was run and was willing to make the tough calls where it counted.

Face it, if Nenshi had lost... he would be out camping with the Occupy movement right now.

THIS.

[ZenOps]

Noone could ever be better than King Ralph.

[Toma]

Nenshi rules.

A true "for the people" attitude, and the ONLY candidate with schooling, education and understanding to do the job.

What he lacked in experience he quickly learned.

Simply, there was no other choice.

[Cos]

Originally posted by Toma
Nenshi rules.

A true "for the people" attitude, and the ONLY candidate with schooling, education and understanding to do the job.

What he lacked in experience he quickly learned.

Simply, there was no other choice.

a lot of this mess is left over from Bronco (see the bridge, burn the money or let it finish). Is he perfect? no. I would have really liked Blinky to stay as a councilman or be the GM of the City. He was a good politician and I liked him but I dont trust him to be Mayor.


edit: Holy F I just agreed with Toma

[Toma]

Originally posted by Cos


a lot of this mess is left over from Bronco (see the bridge, burn the money or let it finish). Is he perfect? no. I would have really liked Blinky to stay as a councilman or be the GM of the City. He was a good politician and I liked him but I dont trust him to be Mayor.


edit: Holy F I just agreed with Toma

People forget the Bronco business.... and the previous damage way back from another short on education fella.... King Ralph

I can't believe people in this City will consider people for politics that lack more than high school education and understanding of the field of business and politics.

A leader must posses two key features IMO. Education and intelligence, as well as benevolence and a "for the public good " mentaility

[bspot]

Originally posted by CUG

2: He allowed work on the design bridge to continue past its deadline and over budget.

You're right.

They should have sold the already purchased bridge parts for salvage and thrown away the $24 million they paid for a fixed price contract.

Speaking of fixed price contracts, anything over budget is being eaten by Graham, the contractor on the job.

Why do you give a shit if a private company is going over budget on a job?

You are ignorant on civic issues.

[Guillermo]

Originally posted by CUG
1: He's pissed off the police service to the point where they're looking at closing district offices in order to maintain their current level of service.. instead of growing as planned.

actually, this has nothing to do with pissing off the police service - it's all about money. on the one hand you have the silly majority whining about tax increases (when in face calgary pays among the lowest municipal taxes in Canada), and on the other hand you have government services whining about not being able to do their job in the face of budget cuts.

at the end of the day, unless you want to increase taxes, the city is going to have to learn to live with budget cuts - CPS included. They were supposed to also have budget cuts a year or two ago, which they somehow got out of... Rick is just going to have to figure out how to do more with less, like the rest of the city and province has been doing for the last 5 years.

[Guillermo]

and who starts a poll with an ultra-biased opinion like that? not to mention that the answers aren't distributed among opinions evenly. nice.

[Sugarphreak]

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[Cos]

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[CUG]

Originally posted by bspot


You're right.

They should have sold the already purchased bridge parts for salvage and thrown away the $24 million they paid for a fixed price contract.

Speaking of fixed price contracts, anything over budget is being eaten by Graham, the contractor on the job.

Why do you give a shit if a private company is going over budget on a job?

You are ignorant on civic issues.

And you apparently don't know anything about contract law. You're ignorant of how shitty your pseudo-messiah mayor is. Don't bitch at me about it. Nenshi's a hack. A harvard grad teaching at MRU? Reach for the stars Naheed.

[Toma]

Originally posted by Guillermo
and who starts a poll with an ultra-biased opinion like that? not to mention that the answers aren't distributed among opinions evenly. nice.

Josh does. Beyond's resident Rocket Scientist.

[CUG]

Originally posted by Guillermo


actually, this has nothing to do with pissing off the police service - it's all about money. on the one hand you have the silly majority whining about tax increases (when in face calgary pays among the lowest municipal taxes in Canada), and on the other hand you have government services whining about not being able to do their job in the face of budget cuts.

at the end of the day, unless you want to increase taxes, the city is going to have to learn to live with budget cuts - CPS included. They were supposed to also have budget cuts a year or two ago, which they somehow got out of... Rick is just going to have to figure out how to do more with less, like the rest of the city and province has been doing for the last 5 years.

All you guys saying this are assuming that the rest of us aren't okay with small tax increases. To be asking the cops to chew up their budget when the city's house isn't in order is absurd.

Originally posted by Toma

Josh does. Beyond's resident Rocket Scientist.

Don't you have a mass genocide criminal to apologize for somewhere Toma?

[Tik-Tok]

Where's the "It doesn't matter who is Mayor, the current situation would be minimally different, because of the rest of the Alderman" choice?