Waterloo Region Council Election Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Well things are getting messy.

Apparently, according to Beisan Zubi, Jane Mitchell called her "an ethnic."  From Twitter:

Given that this is the only thing I know about Zubi, I find the inference we are presumably to take from the allegation to be unbelievable (it’s possible that Mitchell said something that wouldn’t look good on a transcript, but the inference, that she is some sort of racist or xenophobe, is not believable based on the evidence at hand).

I can’t help but point out that this sort of thing probably wouldn’t happen under a ranked-ballot system, especially in races such as this one which will be won by more than one person (Waterloo elects 2 representatives to Council, in addition to the Mayor).