Alan Lowe | Victoria | Current mayor (not running in 2008)
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 11:25 AM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 11:47 AM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 11:58 AM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 12:01 PM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 12:05 PM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 12:08 PM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 02:13 PM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 02:15 PM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 02:28 PM
Scotland Yard's top-level anti-terrorism cheif quit today over a similar expense account scandal that sounded just like what Victoria's chief is going through, i.e. charging up dinners and drinks on the government credit card.
Regardless, I think the chief will be taking down the mayor with him. I guess we'll be finding out for sure soon.
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 02:43 PM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 04:09 PM
I just updated the 2008 candidate list. Looks like Dean Fortin, rumoured for a while now to be chasing after the mayors chair, is the only potential candidate. Any word on Isitt's nth attempt for the position?
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 04:31 PM
Who in their right mind will want to be mayor when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan with our growing homeless and drug using population issues, the growing dissatisfaction with policing, the pending taxes for the sewage treatment plants, and so on. The next three+ years will be anything but a smooth ride.
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 04:59 PM
I wouldn't bet him to be very lucky there though.
Or maybe he just wants to be an architect again.
So he promised last year to have a library in Centennial Square as one of his legacies he better get working!!!!
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 05:10 PM
You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe Lowe has chosen to distance himself from municipal politics over the major issues facing our region that could prove disastrous for any local politician sticking their neck out.
Who in their right mind will want to be mayor when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan with our growing homeless and drug using population issues, the growing dissatisfaction with policing, the pending taxes for the sewage treatment plants, and so on. The next three+ years will be anything but a smooth ride.
No one will want to be Mayor when this sewage thing happens.
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 05:22 PM
Yet another unsubstantiated reference to "unprecedented" development. T'ain't true. They need to remove this bit from the local journalism playbook....at a time of when new development is taking place at an unprecedented rate but social issues continue to plague the city.
But that's a good point about how the social issues still persist, despite the unprecedented development. I was convinced that building a couple of condo towers on the Y-lot would snuff out the drug problem in no time. Looks like I was naive.
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 05:24 PM
The something-something fallacy?
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 05:25 PM
Most signigicant is the underway revitalization of the moribund but historic Bay building which is being transformed into luxury condominiums.
Luxury condominiums. Is there any other kind?
Have they installed the solid gold bathtubs yet?
I really wish Victoria's media people would get to know somebody who actually owns a condo in Victoria. Go in for a minute, have a look around. That sort of thing.
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 05:27 PM
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 05:31 PM
"...at a time when courteous driving is taking place at an unprecedented rate but hordes of raccoons continue to plague the city."
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 05:33 PM
Good gravy! Somebody should send Carolyn Heiman a Christmas card! She gets it! She really gets it!...But being the downtown to 12 other surrounding muncipalities in the capital region - population 353,700 - it has its share of social issues, homelessness and drug use being top of the list.
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