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Breaking news - a new mayor for Collingwood!
12 August 2010
Mayor Chris Carrier is NOT running for re-election as mayor. Another "I told you so" moment. I've been saying he wouldn't run again for the last few months. In fact I had a long conversation with a local developer last night during which we debated this very issue.
I expect some of you are already breaking out in a chorus of "Ding, dong, the witch is dead..."
However, the mayor did say he planned to run for the federal Conservative candidate - where I suppose hopes to do to the riding what he did to the town.
That poses some interesting questions - will his past behaviour at the County, where I'm told he has alienated a lot of his fellow County reps and some County staff - hinder his chances federally? Will the local Conservatives side with a contentious, controversial, and often curt mayor, or with the proposed candidate, Dr. Kellie Leitch, a loquacious, well-spoken, and apparently popular orthopedic surgeon?
I heard the news on the Peak FM this morning. The mayor has not seen fit to inform the rest of council, yet. I got forwarded a copy of an email of the announcement that went through a tortuous e-path that started from Mycollingwood.ca and after several in-between forwards, ended up in my in-box. It doesn't seem to have been sent directly by the mayor, nor sent to to any local press or members of council, but perhaps that's just the routing my copy went through.
And I see Scoop beat me to the punch in breaking this news, but in a surprisingly restrained manner, given the relationship between the mayor and the media this term.
I expect some of you are already breaking out in a chorus of "Ding, dong, the witch is dead..."
However, the mayor did say he planned to run for the federal Conservative candidate - where I suppose hopes to do to the riding what he did to the town.
That poses some interesting questions - will his past behaviour at the County, where I'm told he has alienated a lot of his fellow County reps and some County staff - hinder his chances federally? Will the local Conservatives side with a contentious, controversial, and often curt mayor, or with the proposed candidate, Dr. Kellie Leitch, a loquacious, well-spoken, and apparently popular orthopedic surgeon?
I heard the news on the Peak FM this morning. The mayor has not seen fit to inform the rest of council, yet. I got forwarded a copy of an email of the announcement that went through a tortuous e-path that started from Mycollingwood.ca and after several in-between forwards, ended up in my in-box. It doesn't seem to have been sent directly by the mayor, nor sent to to any local press or members of council, but perhaps that's just the routing my copy went through.
And I see Scoop beat me to the punch in breaking this news, but in a surprisingly restrained manner, given the relationship between the mayor and the media this term.
DdtWid....
hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa
...and Sandra Cooper will be the new Mayor..