tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post312105983452335831..comments2023-06-29T01:04:57.030-07:00Comments on Victoria Vision: First Candidate for City Council - Barry HobbisBernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-12235728941159538302010-06-13T10:22:55.464-07:002010-06-13T10:22:55.464-07:00Any sensible good candidate for Council realizes t...Any sensible good candidate for Council realizes that you work as a group and you need the respect of your colleagues on Council to initiate any of your ideas. If your main campaign platform is to criticize the existing council you are being extremely shortsighted, especially in a by-election situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-86223638913360298462010-06-12T23:00:54.613-07:002010-06-12T23:00:54.613-07:00Hobbis is a poor candidate for council. His statem...Hobbis is a poor candidate for council. His statement of "internal strife" around the council table at city hall is the worst type of innuendo.<br />His campaign slogan in the last election was "I want my city back." He is given to pressing the panic button on every issue. A good candidate has more sense then this guy.Dave Kessonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-39607046792376379492010-06-09T21:17:28.600-07:002010-06-09T21:17:28.600-07:00I don’t want to comment on Hobbis’s campaign - don...I don’t want to comment on Hobbis’s campaign - don’t have an oar in the water here - but feel compelled to comment on the Don Roughley angle. <br /><br />First, Don Roughley was “before my time” (before I started paying close attention to City Hall), so I admit that I’m not completely informed. Second, though, after I published an article in FOCUS Magazine about the City’s profligacy in its Yule Heibelhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657184.post-42214737058806150232010-06-09T09:03:52.762-07:002010-06-09T09:03:52.762-07:00It will be interesting to see what effect the endo...It will be interesting to see what effect the endorsement of Don Roughley has on his campaign given how unpopular the guy was in his time with the city.Ted Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15561985719529647307noreply@blogger.com