And we lost badly. Such is life - never believe a campaign manager about where a campaign is at because any good campaign manager is not capable of seeing anything other than victory.
I also know why we lost.
I will go through all the local elections in the next day or two. The results in Victoria are somewhat different than I expected, not the Open Victoria stuff, but how well Ben Isitt and Lisa Helps did and how badly Lynn Hunter and John Luton did.
I am glad to see Chris Coleman, Charlayne Thornton-Joe and Geoff Young did well.
As to Open Victoria, it continues and will shift into what it really was intended to be, a civic watch dog. It is an important role and one that is missing in most of this region. Frankly most of the local governments need someone on the outside asking questions and pointing mistakes.
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Too bad, but in the long term even an election that you lose can be a turning point, so don't give up! And I agree that more municipal watchdogs are needed, when I lived in the interior the Vernon Taxpayers' Association and the Coldstream Ratepayers' Association were very active; the former defeated an expensive and unnecessary civic complex and the latter stopped farmland from being developed into a sports entertainment centre, both accomplished via the petition and referendum process–this shows citizen groups can make a difference.
Interesting that two of the Dean Team lost (a good thing) but were replaced by another crop of left wing ideologues who will probably be little different (though more extreme) in power. I was also disappointed that John Young lost on the school board and that Harald Wolf wasn't elected in Saanich.
I'd hardly call Gudgeon a lefty. Isitt, definitely but Helps may avoid characterization.
Bernard, I bet if you plot the Victoria votes on a graph you'd get a smooth slope, no thousand vote gaps like you often get.
I hope someday you will be able to put some context into this historic election. I'd like to know the last time three incumbents were booted (before '93 at least) and the highest a political rookie has ever polled (Helps' third place showing, handily topping Madoff by over 1000 votes was impressive).
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