Election Results Discussion

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Sell me on her, because there was just something about her, I just had trouble getting on board with.

Same with me.

Both Tenille and Rami seemed to me to have the most in depth knowledge of a lot of issues compared to other candidates who had more generic & vague answers, although I'd say both of them have strong personalities which may rub people the wrong way -- I know one friend who had a gut reaction against Tenille and another who had a rather disenchanted "oh, her" response when she was told of Tenille's former CBC radio columnist spot. Someone said to me early on that they thought Tenille was bringing up the Grand Porch Party too often, but she was able to mention other groups and committees she'd been a part of; during the debates the number of times the porch party was mentioned wouldn't have been enough for a good drinking game.

For more progressive types, Tenille was the one to bring up municipal sidewalk clearing as well as the missing middle in development & zoning -- so hopefully we could see some progressive voting decisions from her. I'm not really thinking of much else off the top of my head, but there were a few times in the debates when she brought up things that are on the more progressive side of city planning, urban design, evidence-based policy and less NIMBY sounding. Generally the other candidates seem less likely to champion new ideas.

We'll see how this holds up over the next four years. Uptown has the C.O.R.E. group that has been good for some things but sometimes sounds quite conservative a lot of the time, so we'll see how that plays out.