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#21 SamCB

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Posted 13 October 2014 - 01:22 AM

Barb D for mayor is a sure thing in Esquimalt. She saved us from sewage twice this year, and everyone in this neighbourhood is very grateful for her hard work on our behalf. I can't even think of another politician by name - from any municipality - who has taken on the CRD and won. She did it twice.


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#22 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 13 October 2014 - 04:13 AM

Barb D for mayor is a sure thing in Esquimalt. She saved us from sewage twice this year, and everyone in this neighbourhood is very grateful for her hard work on our behalf. I can't even think of another politician by name - from any municipality - who has taken on the CRD and won. She did it twice.

 

Yes, she saved you from sewage, but all she really did was kick the can down the road, and at the end, it'll likely cost you much, much more than the McLaughlin plan.  Unless this whole plan gets scrapped.  If it does, this will be the best $60M Seaterra has ever spent.


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#23 Bingo

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Posted 13 October 2014 - 06:38 AM

Some interesting history between Ducker and Desjardins.

 

http://focusonline.ca/?q=node%2F610

 

From the focus article by Stephen Andrew - October 2013

 

 

SA: What do you think of Barb Desjardins?

JD: She does an excellent job in representing Esquimalt and their interests. As a citizen I go to all-candidates meetings and I see political leadership talking about how they bring people together, and how they fix things. We were owed that opportunity as a police department. 



#24 wetcoastace

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Posted 14 October 2014 - 11:54 AM

Ducker was well respected for his leadership with VPD, I wouldn't rule him out.

I'm not ruling him out, that's a mugs game this early in any political campaign.  I will say however that "leadership" in a hierarchical command and control organization should be discounted when applied to electoral politics - the nature of the beast does not favour compromise, negotiation, and accomodation.



#25 sam

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Posted 27 October 2014 - 10:21 PM

Focus attempted to do a profile on Esquimalt mayoral challenger John Ducker, but Ducker insisted on seeing journalist Judith Lavoie's questions ahead of time. This did not meet Focus' requirements for these interviews and so we declined. However, journalist Stephen Andrews did a "Tough Questions" interview of Ducker earlier this year and that profile can be found here: http://focusonline.ca/?q=node/610



#26 wetcoastace

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Posted 02 November 2014 - 10:44 AM

Focus attempted to do a profile on Esquimalt mayoral challenger John Ducker, but Ducker insisted on seeing journalist Judith Lavoie's questions ahead of time. This did not meet Focus' requirements for these interviews and so we declined. However, journalist Stephen Andrews did a "Tough Questions" interview of Ducker earlier this year and that profile can be found here: http://focusonline.ca/?q=node/610

So, the would-be mayor Victoria softballs the would-be mayor of Esquimalt, both from the sidelines?



#27 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 02 November 2014 - 11:17 AM

The article was well before either Ducker or Andrews was even near entering the respective races.


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#28 wetcoastace

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Posted 02 November 2014 - 03:43 PM

The article was well before either Ducker or Andrews was even near entering the respective races.

If you cite the article in this campaign then it is fair and reasonable to judge it in this campaign...



#29 tedward

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Posted 05 November 2014 - 01:47 PM

The article was well before either Ducker or Andrews was even near entering the respective races.

 

And that is a positive for them how?  That interview was one-year ago. Any serious candidate for mayor should have been assembling a campaign team for the election or at the very least in discussions with a potential campaign manager. The idea that you should enter a mayoral race on a whim is pretty damning IMO.


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