All Entries Tagged With: "mayoral race"
Mayor Slate Back Up To Eight
Another enters the race to succeed Larry O’Brien: “Samuel Wright filed his nomination papers Thursday, becoming the eighth candidate in the race.” “The other candidates are Bay Coun. Alex Cullen, Jim Watson, Mike Maguire, Stanley Pioro, Sean Ryan, Jane Scharf and Charlie Taylor.” For more on this story, click here. Related: New Candidate Files Papers [...]
Name Recognition A Drawback
In an age of the “professional poltiician,” does one’s work experience prior to an election as important as knowing how to excel within the microcausm of power once elected: “Consider the two leading and declared candidates for mayor. Has either accomplished anything of note before life in politics? Do we want our leaders to be [...]
Mayor Larry O’Brien’s Former Wife Demands End To Watson’s Childish Games
Debbie Green-O’Brien says that she did not give Jim Watson permission to use her name on his list of fans: “As we had suspected, Watson and Green-O’Brien were “Facebook Friends” for a long while (and presumably real friends too). In fact, Mr. Watson had recently been invited to (and attended) Debbie Green O’Brien’s birthday bash (although we [...]
Mayor’s Race: “I’m Not Larry” Isn’t Going To Cut It
Vicky Smallman blogs on how a possible late-entry Larry O’Brien candidacy for Ottawa mayor makes it diffiicult for other candidates developing platforms and messaging, eight months before election day: “There are a few advantages to mayoral candidates getting out there early. You can raise and spend money, for one. It costs a lot of money to run a [...]
Udder Disappointment for Mayoral Candidate
Mayoral candidate Robert Gauthier believes his services cannot be provided in an effective manner: “Mayoral candidate Robert Gauthier has withdrawn from the race, and one of the reasons is because of his frustration with an illegal cow in Orleans.” “I’m a believer in the rule of law,” Gauthier said. I don’t have time to get [...]
Journalism student enters mayoral race
Candidate wants to see an expansion of the city’s needle exchange program: “Taylor, 32, is a third-year journalism student at Carleton University who was born and raised in Ottawa. He took 11 years off between high school and university and travelled, visiting 45 countries on five continents.” “He’d also like to expand the city’s needle-exchange [...]
‘Court Jester’ Gets on the Bus for Mayoral Race
The Citizen’s Joanne Chianello and Nico Cockburn examine the one mayoral candidate who believes Ottawa cannot afford light-rail; and that he has a snowball’s chance of winning: “As a city of 900,000 people, we do not need light rail” “Common sense does not prevail in this town and engineers are not listened to.” For more [...]
Green Bins Trash Mayoral Hopes
The Ottawa Sun’s Sue Sherring summarizes why Alta Vista Councillor Peter Hume’s public association with Ottawa’s ‘Green Bin’ program may hurt his aspirations to be mayor of Ottawa: “Hume has become the political face for the green bin, and in the eyes of many taxpayers, that’s not a good thing.” “Support for the bin took a [...]
Mayor Boasts About His Record and City Finances
CTV Ottawa reports on Mayor Larry O’Brien’s comments to Francophone business leaders that under his leadership, the City of Ottawa’s financial position is better than ever: “This year, for the first time since amalgamation, the City of Ottawa finally has a balance sheet that can be read and understood by businessmen like me and you,” [...]
Watson Launches Website
Sun and the City blogs on the launching of Jim Watson’s new electoral website (http://www.JimWatson.ca) “Every candidate for office has to strive to be as accessible as possible. Ottawa covers a far-reaching area – with over 900,000 residents – and I want to be able to communicate with everyone, whether they live in Centretown, Cumberland, Goulbourn [...]
