07-30-2018, 02:04 PM
(07-27-2018, 12:23 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(07-27-2018, 11:59 AM)YKF Wrote: Given the times we are in, I think it’s almost *guaranteed* that Jay Aissa will be elected Regional Chair, with Oberholtzer being elected in Waterloo.
Unless of course the Regional Chair no longer gets elected. Or the whole damn election gets called off. Who knows anymore.
Incumbency is a pretty strong advantage in municipal politics, and Oberholtzer doesn't have any name recognition from previous politics. I think Sean and Jane will likely be re-elected.
Sadly for regional chair I agree with you. Without Ken Seiling's name recognition this will probably go to Jay Aissa. Karen Redman's name recognition is the only hope I have it won't.
Until Jay's registration I was actually just thinking that it's pretty nice we have three reasonable candidates for chair, any of whom I'd be pretty okay with. Now I think we'll get a three-way split of the sane vote.
Karen Redman received 28,616 votes for her seat on Regional Council in 2014, and that was just from Kitchener voters, she spent $17,400, or $1.65 per vote. Jay received 25,615 votes across the whole region and spent $251k or $9.80 per vote.
Karen Redman got more votes than Jay did in 2014, with a smaller voter base, and was a lot more efficient with her money. The LRT has been built, there is not going back now, I am guessing that Jay will lose a lot of that anti LRT supporters.