Municipal Round-Up — October 15: Vote Unsplitting
All The News That's Fit to Tweet
First, what’s happening with Rage?
Co-editor Tim Querengesser and I have enjoyed building this newsletter over the past nine months. We’re going to stick around after the vote, but we’re going to take a bit of a break and consult with our subscribers to see what kind of news you want from Rage and how we can grow our paid subscriber base so we can convince our significant others that this is a worthy endeavour.
No really, honey (and new baby. -Tim), people read this thing we’re always working on. We aren’t just trying to avoid doing the dishes!
We’ll pause all your subscriptions during this time, so no need to do anything on your end.
And there’s still a piece or two coming from us!
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Keep YEG weird
This week, Troy Pavlek of the Speaking Municipally podcast delighted Edmontonians and weirded out Albertans with his Crystal Glass billboard and spanking memes. The Crystal Glass billboard has been used before by mayoral candidate Mike Nickel to run attack ads on fellow councillor Andrew Knack. Pavlek performed some judo with this one.
Pavlek then posted this photo where a man spanking a young child has mayoral hopeful Michael Oshry’s face superimposed on the body. On the child, Pavlek put his own face. The message is, apparently, about fiscal restraint but this whole thing was just really weird to have to type out.
Oshry responded.
Edmonton polls
The election has felt somewhat data-deprived compared to federal and provincial politics. So here’s a poll for you.
Farkas attempts to unsplit votes
In an attempt to peel votes from fellow right-leaning fiscal restraint candidates, Calgary mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas wrote a plea to support him, and painted his main opponent, Jyoti Gondek, as status quo and also somehow a hard-left candidate.
Gondek responded with a head shake in a thread about the attacks against her campaign.
Political fistfights continue in Calgary
Three major contenders for the mayoral race in Calgary faced-off in a debate.
Old, terrible rape jokes surface
Here’s the actual “joke” in question.
NDP, Papastew, and the slate that never was (don’t @ me)
Friend of Rage, Rajah Maggay, made an online plea to the New Democratic Party that they stop confusing people in the municipal election with their political advertising.
Other progressives on Twitter have been weighing in on what some suggest is a shared voter list between the NDP and some municipal candidates, as well as the ongoing NDP endorsements.
