General Politics Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Looking forward to what's next for Ward 10.

Stephanie Stretch finished just behind Aislinn last October with third place way off. Are we close enough to the vote that Barry would offer the vacant spot to Stephanie? I would be fine with that, I have voter fatigue. If she turns it down I would go to an election.

Maybe Barry just goes straight for an election, who knows. If we go to an election and Stephanie doesn't run my early favourite would be Brooklin, if she throws her hat in the ring. Maybe Simon Guthrie takes aim too.

Clancy - 1765
Stretch - 1650
Davis - 513

Not a fan for Brooklin. She made some fairly strong but untrue comments, over of Reddit, which I called her out on. In her post, she was attacking city staff and council for not doing enough to prevent a certain incident from happening. (It was the case where a Waterloo woman apparently made racist remarks to a person of a different ethnic, at the Drive Test facility). I pointed out the incident had nothing to do with Kitchener, if for any reason the parties involved were not from Kitchener, nor was the facility run by the city. I pointed out that city staff and council does a lot more than just about every city - especially considering all of our community services that cost us hundred of millions.

She did admit that she didn't know any of the details of this event, but there lies the problem. Calling other people out for things they didn't do, nor have any control over, is simply wrong.

I dunno...there are significantly greater problems with the city than someone who is too quick to judge an event one time. (Like, our resident NIMBY or other neoconservative folks.)

But obviously many people do prioritise someone being a civil establishment supporting person over any kind of radical viewpoints...but I think the byelection has shown that such attitudes are becoming more and more toxic...the status is not quo...