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Calgary Municipal Politics

Which mayoral candidate do you intend to vote for in 2021?

  • Jeremy Farkas

    Votes: 8 25.0%

  • Jyoti Gondek

    Votes: 10 31.3%

  • Sonya Sharp

    Votes: 2 6.3%

  • Jeff Davison

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Brian Thiessen

    Votes: 9 28.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 9.4%
  • Total voters
    32
darwink said:
The ranks of all the polls align no? I wouldn’t call that all over the place.
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The ranks align, but I've seen some polls with a much bigger lead for Farkas. One I thought he was at roughly double Gondek and Sharp? And I think this is the first poll I've seen with either Gondek or Sharp over 20%.
 
Albertasaurus said:
The ranks align, but I've seen some polls with a much bigger lead for Farkas. One I thought he was at roughly double Gondek and Sharp? And I think this is the first poll I've seen with either Gondek or Sharp over 20%.
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I think this poll forced 'undecideds' to say where they are leaning. And it seems like those folks generally follow the existing trend of decideds
 
If I'm not mistaken Farkas had around this same number last election. He probably has the most to gain as he has a base hovering in the 20-30% range, and I feel like he won't lose much, if any of his base, while Sharp, and Davison battle it out for the other conservative leaning voters. To me this looks similar to the last election with a couple of progressive candidates gone Gondek/Thiessen on one side and Farkas and Davison on the other side, but now Sharp has been thrown into the mix and has quite a lot of share.
The other thing was last election. A lot of strategic voting for a Gondek to keep Farkas out. I’m not sure we’ll see as much of that maybe some of those votes have gone to sharp?
 
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I'm nervous as hell to vote Farkas. I, maybe naively, believe he has changed... Thiessen would be my other choice, but the polls tell me that would be a wasted vote. I just remind myself it is one vote on council. I was hoping we'd get someone run that sold themselves as someone who can run a meeting and for lack of a better term a boardroom, but it didn't happen. I know government isn't the private sector and isn't a business but if any level of government is close to it, it is municipal government.
 
Haha Larry Heather is still running? He probably gets the same 10 votes each time...

I get the sentiment about how much Farkas has actually changed, I wonder if he will stick to it or turn back to his old ways when there is pressure on him.
 
It seems strange to me that everyone is worrying about whether Farkas will ACTUALLY do what we says he will during a campaign, but not extending the same worry to the rest of the candidates. Remember when Mayor Gondek campaigned on declaring a climate emergency?...Oh wait... So, what makes you worry about Farkas, but not her?
 
Mayor Gondek was a big part of the climate emergency being declared back in 2021, and it is still in effect.
 
I know. But she didn't mention once during her campaign for mayor. Highlighting the fact that she is willing to say whatever she needs to win, but will act completely different once in office.

The perception that Farkas "might" do that seems to be more of a concern to people than the fact the incumbent literally did do it. Strange.
 
She was crucified for declaring a Climate Emergency and the Flames immediately used it to kibosh the arena deal and now we all get to fund like 70% of Murray Edwards’ private business because of it. I don’t blame her for not campaigning on that. Why would she unnecessarily open herself to attack when she already implemented the policy. It’s hardly hypocritical.

Farkas on the other hand has a coloured history of being dysfunctional on council. I hope if he wins that he has matured. Maybe he can keep the defiant streak to resist Marlaina’s brazen attempts to control our municipal government. I will support him in that fight. Also iirc he is gay so hopefully he throws his support behind trans students. I don’t know his views on that however.
 
Have you been watching the last term of Council? Gondek has proven to be far more dysfunctional than he was since being in the mayors chair. I am just pointing out that there seems to be a double standard applied to Farkas when compared to Gondek. She literally pivoted and did something out of the blue that would have cost her the election on day 1 as the mayor, but people are somehow suspicious it is Farkas that is not to be trusted.....
 
In fairness the climate emergency thing was both in policy on Gondek’s website and mentioned at one of the big debates. The pride of timing it had following the election was a big misstep.
 
For Farkas, I tend to believe that he has moderated himself and is more pragmatic. His previous run on council and for Mayor was anything but moderate or pragmatic. Criticism or skepticism as whether he was changed is warranted. Will the real slim shady please stand up.
 
My concerns on Farkas are from the fact that as a councilor, he voted no on everything and was a little far right on the spectrum. Now he has had an epiphone and is "progressive", but will he actually vote to spend money or regress.

I agree that we should hold all candidates accountable though, they should stick with what they campaign on and defend any changes from them.
 
It's hard to know if his change of heart is real or fake, but I don't think Gondek has had a good term. She's a good councilor but hasn't used the mayoral post well. Sharp is just a type cast conservative candidate. Farkas could be good or bad, but if he is good, the potential is higher than other candidates.
 
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