Winnipeg Mayoral Election 2018

[bomberjet]

Bowman can just keep his mouth shut for the rest of the campaign and he'll win the election. Only way he'll lose is if he says something really dumb.

Said state of affairs this civic politics stuff.

[buzzg]

Frankly other than this plebiscite gaffe I think bowman has done a fantastic job. It’s pretty difficult to have good sentiment as a politician these days, and his is quite favourable. Regardless if you agree with his political views, he has accomplished quite a lot of stuff, even if it’s not all shiny fancy things.

I don’t think it’s a sad state of affairs that it’s this obvious who’s going to win. It means the smart people aren’t running because they know they don’t have much chance. One of our most highly regarded mayors was Glen Murray, but most non-liberal/progressive people absolutely hated him.

Think Bowman’s done a flawless job of trying to appeal to/appease as many people and groups as one can. Again, other than P&M. Just don’t think (in this day and age) anyone could have more widespread average or better opinion. I mean most people’s biggest complaint about his is his smirk... that’s a big win.

[wardlow]

Fort Rouge - East Fort Garry is going to be a key race. As councilor, Gerbasi has been the most consistent voice of urbanist issues.

Based on my vast expertise and careful study, I think it breaks down like this:
Koroma, Peter - ran as a Liberal in the last provincial election, in the Logan riding
Wolbert, Harry - I think he's tried running for the Manitoba Liberal Party leadership?
Rollins, Sherri - NDP/public sector union candidate
Thompson, Michael - has money for slick Facebook ads?
Meilleur, Stephanie - Osborne BIZ
Spina, Bryanna - ??
Palmer, Jeff - City planner, has worked for CentreVenture, U of W's development corp., as well as some private consulting.
Langen, Geof - another NDP/union candidate?

[TimeFadesAway]

Originally Posted by wardlow

Fort Rouge - East Fort Garry is going to be a key race. As councilor, Gerbasi has been the most consistent voice of urbanist issues.

Based on my vast expertise and careful study, I think it breaks down like this:
Koroma, Peter - ran as a Liberal in the last provincial election, in the Logan riding
Wolbert, Harry - I think he's tried running for the Manitoba Liberal Party leadership?
Rollins, Sherri - NDP/public sector union candidate
Thompson, Michael - has money for slick Facebook ads?
Meilleur, Stephanie - Osborne BIZ
Spina, Bryanna - ??
Palmer, Jeff - City planner, has worked for CentreVenture, U of W's development corp., as well as some private consulting.
Langen, Geof - another NDP/union candidate?

Sherri Rollins is the current chair of the Winnipeg School Division Board, so has a fair bit of political experience and is probably well supported behind the scenes.

[drew]

Originally Posted by wardlow

Fort Rouge - East Fort Garry is going to be a key race. As councilor, Gerbasi has been the most consistent voice of urbanist issues.

Based on my vast expertise and careful study, I think it breaks down like this:
Koroma, Peter - ran as a Liberal in the last provincial election, in the Logan riding
Wolbert, Harry - I think he's tried running for the Manitoba Liberal Party leadership?
Rollins, Sherri - NDP/public sector union candidate
Thompson, Michael - has money for slick Facebook ads?
Meilleur, Stephanie - Osborne BIZ
Spina, Bryanna - ??
Palmer, Jeff - City planner, has worked for CentreVenture, U of W's development corp., as well as some private consulting.
Langen, Geof - another NDP/union candidate?

Vote for Jeff!

[dmacc]

Originally Posted by wardlow

Fort Rouge - East Fort Garry is going to be a key race. As councilor, Gerbasi has been the most consistent voice of urbanist issues.

Based on my vast expertise and careful study, I think it breaks down like this:
Koroma, Peter - ran as a Liberal in the last provincial election, in the Logan riding
Wolbert, Harry - I think he's tried running for the Manitoba Liberal Party leadership?
Rollins, Sherri - NDP/public sector union candidate
Thompson, Michael - has money for slick Facebook ads?
Meilleur, Stephanie - Osborne BIZ
Spina, Bryanna - ??
Palmer, Jeff - City planner, has worked for CentreVenture, U of W's development corp., as well as some private consulting.
Langen, Geof - another NDP/union candidate?

Are all those candidates just for Fort Rouge/East Fort Garry?

[Biff]

^^^No incumbent.

[dmacc]

Just based on resume I have to go for Jeff.

[bomberjet]

Originally Posted by buzzg

Frankly other than this plebiscite gaffe I think bowman has done a fantastic job. It’s pretty difficult to have good sentiment as a politician these days, and his is quite favourable. Regardless if you agree with his political views, he has accomplished quite a lot of stuff, even if it’s not all shiny fancy things.

I don’t think it’s a sad state of affairs that it’s this obvious who’s going to win. It means the smart people aren’t running because they know they don’t have much chance. One of our most highly regarded mayors was Glen Murray, but most non-liberal/progressive people absolutely hated him.

Think Bowman’s done a flawless job of trying to appeal to/appease as many people and groups as one can. Again, other than P&M. Just don’t think (in this day and age) anyone could have more widespread average or better opinion. I mean most people’s biggest complaint about his is his smirk... that’s a big win.

I find it sad that there is no one of substance out there willing to run against him. Only person I know is Jenny M. Not sure where she came from but, is clearly not the answer.

Then there are numerous wards where nobody is running against the incumbent, from what I heard a coupe weeks ago. Hopefully that's changed. But ya, sad.

[Ando]

She came from the Conservative political machine. It's not a secret.

[rrskylar]

No one credible to give Bowman any kind of threat so it looks like more of the same from dithering selfie boy Brian.

Have to agree with Bomberjet, no one running for city council or mayor all incumbents included inspires much of anything but more of the same, apathy is aliv and well in Winnipeg civic politics and at a time when things really need to change!

[Danny D Oh]

It's not a surprise that anyone with half a brain is reluctant to run for municipal politics right now. The political climate in this country and province is just toxic. You've got the province refusing to participate in funding infrastructure in communities and threatening every public job which communities rely on, plus making laws (or threatening to) on how the municipalities/school boards can tax their constituents so there are very few options to get anything done.

If you're a councillor or mayor/reeve you are going to spend all your energy fighting for any drab of funding, fighting the province to not destroy it's own workforce taking jobs out of your community and look like a total idiot because in the end very little progress will happen. The whole economy is on the brink of falling into the shitter and our public infrastructure is going with it.

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by Danny D Oh

It's not a surprise that anyone with half a brain is reluctant to run for municipal politics right now. The political climate in this country and province is just toxic. You've got the province refusing to participate in funding infrastructure in communities and threatening every public job which communities rely on, plus making laws (or threatening to) on how the municipalities/school boards can tax their constituents so there are very few options to get anything done.

If you're a councillor or mayor/reeve you are going to spend all your energy fighting for any drab of funding, fighting the province to not destroy it's own workforce taking jobs out of your community and look like a total idiot because in the end very little progress will happen. The whole economy is on the brink of falling into the shitter and our public infrastructure is going with it.

This province is now paying $1B that’s BILLION in interest alone on the provincial debt., you can thank 17 years of the speNDP regime for destroying Manitoba’s finances now and forever! Pretty tough to do much when that’s the third biggest expense the provinc now faces every friggin year!

[Ando]

One BILLION dollars!! Dr. Evil speaks.

[GlassCity]

Jeff Browaty endorses Jenny Motkaluk for mayor. Essentially destroys any credibility he had in my opinion.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...ment-1.4815796

[Ando]

What credibility was that? Actually, they share the same politics so it actually maintains his credibility.

[GlassCity]

Originally Posted by Ando

What credibility was that? Actually, they share the same politics so it actually maintains his credibility.

Well before all I knew about him was his Portage & Main stance, which I may disagree with but it's a common position. His support for someone who's pretty obviously unqualified and would be considered a non-serious candidate in most other elections is another matter though.

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

This province is now paying $1B that’s BILLION in interest alone on the provincial debt., you can thank 17 years of the speNDP regime for destroying Manitoba’s finances now and forever! Pretty tough to do much when that’s the third biggest expense the provinc now faces every friggin year!

Admittedly, our debt is high given our small population. We need an oil strike or maybe a significant influx to our population/tax base.
http://www.debtclock.ca/provincial-d...nitoba-s-debt/

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by drew

Vote for Jeff!

Agreed. Jeff is a good guy.

[buzzg]

Originally Posted by GlassCity

Jeff Browaty endorses Jenny Motkaluk for mayor. Essentially destroys any credibility he had in my opinion.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...ment-1.4815796

Yeah I don't know what credibility you're talking about. Even ignoring P&M the guy is a nutcase.

Originally Posted by wardlow

Fort Rouge - East Fort Garry is going to be a key race. As councilor, Gerbasi has been the most consistent voice of urbanist issues.

Based on my vast expertise and careful study, I think it breaks down like this:
Koroma, Peter - ran as a Liberal in the last provincial election, in the Logan riding
Wolbert, Harry - I think he's tried running for the Manitoba Liberal Party leadership?
Rollins, Sherri - NDP/public sector union candidate
Thompson, Michael - has money for slick Facebook ads?
Meilleur, Stephanie - Osborne BIZ
Spina, Bryanna - ??
Palmer, Jeff - City planner, has worked for CentreVenture, U of W's development corp., as well as some private consulting.
Langen, Geof - another NDP/union candidate?

Originally Posted by TimeFadesAway

Sherri Rollins is the current chair of the Winnipeg School Division Board, so has a fair bit of political experience and is probably well supported behind the scenes.

Meilleur would be a nightmare. She couldn't even keep the Osborne BIZ organized and most of the business owners hated her. Jeff sounds like a good candidate.

I don't think Rollins will get much love – many people are growing extremely wary of School division spending and practices, especially at WSD.

Frankly if someone ran on a platform of working with the province on school division reform, going down to one division, or at most 2 (one being French) – they would rocket up my charts.