Councillor Chris Coleman is running for re-election to City of Victoria council in 2014. In the 2011 election Coleman placed 8th out of eight council positions.
Website: http://www.chriscoleman.ca/
Posted 21 August 2014 - 12:42 PM
Councillor Chris Coleman is running for re-election to City of Victoria council in 2014. In the 2011 election Coleman placed 8th out of eight council positions.
Website: http://www.chriscoleman.ca/
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Posted 21 August 2014 - 03:12 PM
Before leaving the TC in 2008, political writer Carolyn Heiman penned this report card on City Council, including Coleman:
- Chris Coleman
Achievements: A likable steady Eddy on council, who mostly drifts to the happy middle ground on issues. Keeps informed about issues common to all municipalities and often takes a wider view on many issues.
Needs work: Would achieve a higher profile if credited with a key policy change or project of significance.
Comments: He wants to run for mayor but worries the Dean Fortin election machine is too strong to stop. This is symbolic of the absence of risk-taking that plagues the whole council table.
Although he's burdened with the bridge mismanagement along with most of them, Chris can be counted on for seeing both sides of an issue. He would go on to lead the Juno competition as his "project of significance" but since that is dead he'll need to find another high profile item. He's smart enough not to choose a controversial agenda item like lowered speed limits like Gudgeon has.
He'd be a good addition to the CRD.
Edited by Holden West, 21 August 2014 - 03:14 PM.
Posted 27 August 2014 - 11:06 AM
If we had preferential balloting, he'd be the highest on the list for me of the incumbent councillors
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:08 PM
I will probably vote for Coleman in the coming up election. If we had more reasonable and balanced Councillors I think the city would be run much better.
Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:09 PM
And yet he still voted for the speed limit reduction and who knows how many costs that will push on tax payers. $90k is just the beginning.
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Posted 27 August 2014 - 12:17 PM
And yet he still voted for the speed limit reduction and who knows how many costs that will push on tax payers. $90k is just the beginning.
I know. This is an issue where nobody wants to be reasonable.
I think the issue is nobody wants to be seen as the guy who is against real or imagined safety improvements.
Posted 27 August 2014 - 07:07 PM
I will probably vote for Coleman in the coming up election. If we had more reasonable and balanced Councillors I think the city would be run much better.
Exactly. He appears to be pretty much the sole opposition to the Dean Team.
Posted 28 August 2014 - 09:09 AM
"And yet he still voted for the speed limit reduction and who knows how many costs that will push on tax payers. $90k is just the beginning."
We dealt with this issue for a bit on one of Lisa, Gene and Eric shows and I still believe it was a ridiculous thing to focus on when all around us seems mayhem, but Lisa Helps' take was interesting. She said that the council meeting was packed, all the speakers were passionate and that the overwhelming push was from communities looking for cars to slow down in their "hood". She suggested that she was going in a NO but was swayed by the proponents passion for YES. I am not too sure if that is a good enough reason, but maybe that is what democracy looks like. Sometimes we are our worst enemies and we agree to things that may or may not make a difference but they make us feel good.
Posted 28 August 2014 - 09:43 AM
Posted 28 August 2014 - 09:52 AM
good question. The feeling I got was the pro speakers were specific about their communities needs like quadra village etc, rather than a blanket slow down. My concern is they asked the engineering department to put it into affect when they were against the drop in the first place. Perhaps not as motivated to have this plan work as well as the councilors voting for the plan.
Posted 16 September 2014 - 11:40 AM
If Chris is re-elected, and I think he will be, by the end of his next term he will be the councilor that served the third longest time on Victoria council in 156 years.
Posted 09 November 2014 - 03:38 PM
Here are my thoughts on Chris
Why would I vote for Chris Coleman in the City of Victoria?
Posted 09 November 2014 - 04:32 PM
He may know how to be a councillor but he has a bad voting record. I didn't vote for him because I don't think he has been an effective councillor or done anything useful in his time on council. For example:
Edited by R0ark, 09 November 2014 - 04:50 PM.
Posted 09 November 2014 - 04:45 PM
Thank you for once again reminding us of the more-or-less abysmal record of our current council R0ark. I think I will print this off and have it with me next Saturday when I vote to (hopefully) make some changes to our local government.
Posted 09 November 2014 - 08:42 PM
From Carolyn Heiman's 2008 Council report card:
- Chris Coleman
Achievements: A likable steady Eddy on council, who mostly drifts to the happy middle ground on issues. Keeps informed about issues common to all municipalities and often takes a wider view on many issues.
Needs work: Would achieve a higher profile if credited with a key policy change or project of significance.
Comments: He wants to run for mayor but worries the Dean Fortin election machine is too strong to stop. This is symbolic of the absence of risk-taking that plagues the whole council table.
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