32 replies to this topic

[NotHudsonMack]

Had a chat with several people today about the election. Had a few say they wont vote for Ida Chong because of her residency but are planning to vote for Margaret Lucas or Marianne Alto for council. It can't work both ways people.

[Nparker]

Had a chat with several people today about the election. Had a few say they wont vote for Ida Chong because of her residency...

Perhaps this was not the REAL reason they won't be voting for her.

[Mixed365]

Had a chat with several people today about the election. Had a few say they wont vote for Ida Chong because of her residency but are planning to vote for Margaret Lucas or Marianne Alto for council. It can't work both ways people.

Lucas and Alto don't live in Victoria proper either?

[John M.]

Lucas and Alto don't live in Victoria proper either?

Alto ran for the NDP nomination in Oak Bay-Gordon Head (I can't recall if it was 2009 or 2013). Either way, she lost to Jessica Van der Veen. 

Edited by John M., 02 November 2014 - 08:07 AM.

[Mike K.]

Lucas, Alto and Thornton-Joe are not Victoria residents.

[Nparker]

Lucas, Alto and Thornton-Joe are not Victoria residents.

Then none can get my vote, since I consider them ineligible.

[R0ark]

Then none can get my vote, since I consider them ineligible.

 

They don't even get their own votes, since none of them can vote in Victoria. It bothers me more that they are Saanich voters than where they live. It's in the municipal level of elections alone that people can run in an election they are ineligible to vote in. It's illegal provincially and federally.

[Mixed365]

Lucas, Alto and Thornton-Joe are not Victoria residents.

I had no idea. Kind of bothers me that Ida is getting heavily penalized from not living in Victoria, but the other seems to fly under the radar. 

[Nparker]

...Kind of bothers me that Ida is getting heavily penalized from not living in Victoria, but the other seems to fly under the radar. 

Ida's residential address is very low on the list of reasons why I will not be voting for her.

[Mike K.]

I had no idea. Kind of bothers me that Ida is getting heavily penalized from not living in Victoria, but the other seems to fly under the radar. 

 

The NDP machine is behind Alto -- she could be living on Mars and they'd get her elected. Thornton-Joe has a big support base that doesn't care about her address, and Lucas has so far flown under the residency radar.

[gumgum]

I called Alto on this in person recently and she argued that because she's pro-amalgamation, she didnt want voters to consider her address as an issue.
Take what you will from that.

[Rob Randall]

In 2007 Lucas was part of a delegation including Thornton-Joe and Ken Kelly that visited NYC and the community court there. After a lot of work, our own Victoria Integrated Court was created.

[John M.]

Ida's residential address is very low on the list of reasons why I will not be voting for her.

Yes.