If you are viewing this for the 1st time because of all the hundreds of millions of possible links, URLs or forwards you got here... sorry... for the rest we are using skills handout#1 and are bored...
In Week 1 we had our 1st major upheaval in a contending campaign... a rumble with the Police by a long-shot academic over accounting... an assurance by the front runner that he can find the efficiencies needed to keep Calgary's property tax hike at 4% or better... efficiencies he didn't share with his fellow aldermen during his previous 9 years on Council... or anyone actually... but he is confident he would have the support of 8 aldermen to move his agenda forward... thus mocking the process of election... naming the 8...and basically saying you have the support of people who are going to win because everyone knows the incumbent has to kill a few voters in Calgary before they are removed... so average on a scale of corruption and from Chicago and Toronto to Dauphin Manitoba...
The skill we will try is the power of three... and unless you fall asleep one joke for each of the candidates... my lame attempts will follow each of the candidates and set the bar low but on task... Set-up line: I learned new things in the 1st week of campaigning...
Ric4Mayor: act as the front runner... let others shake the cage... and people are recording what I say...
Barb4Mayor: making difficult decisions on the go... the value of public forums and the power of laughter...
Nenshi4Mayor: the future of social media in elections... the joy of attending all public forums and reminding everyone I did and I now have a pretty good idea that the percentage of the police budget as a ratio to the the total GDP we spend on surveillance of known or suspected trouble makers is money well spent...
Wayne4Mayor: The expense in renting a 50' billboard in a prime downtown route... the number of homeless it would feed... and my attendance in the public forums rated a gold star from Naheed
Bob4Mayor: the passion for a thoughtful debate on the Airport Tunnel... the passion of my opponents and where I put the last of my lawn signs...
The rest of the candidates distinguished themselves by not being distinguishable... totally outside mainstream proposals or spent most of the week staring at the writing on the wall...
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