2010 civic election wpg - Page 25

drew · #**481** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 2:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jets4Life

One question comes to mind after watching the Civic Election:

Who is hotter- Steen's daughter or Katz's new girlfriend?

She isn't the "new girlfriend". She's been around for at least 5 years.

flatlander · #**482** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 2:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

I like Thomas Steen and all but i don't understand how he is/can represent Elmwood. He has tones of cash, has a huge house, lives in Tuxedo and is supposed to relate and represent the people in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Winnipeg?

.......odd

Candidates should be required to live in their riding.

h0twired · #**483** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 2:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

Didn't see Steen's daughter, but seeing how her dad grew up in Sweden I can only imagine.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...105923598.html

rrskylar · #**484** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 3:01 PM**

I wonder if many of the voters in Elmwood are aware that Steen no longer plays for the Jets or whether they know the Jets no longer play here?

drew · #**485** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 3:06 PM**

I cannot believe Harvey Smith won again.

hexrae · #**486** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 4:06 PM**

Yeah, I was hoping for some fresh blood here. Even he looks surprised

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/spe...anielmcintyre/

http://media.winnipegfreepress.com/i...3/b4harvey.JPG

Biff · #**487** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 4:07 PM**

^^^ I though the exact same thing. He offers the city of Winnipeg nothing in terms of ideas or vision to better anything. The city needs term limits.

.......thank god Lilian Thomas retired, her and Harvey are in the same mold. Doesn't he live in his office or something which i thought i heard was a closet

(like the guy with the stapler in office space)

Only The Lonely.. · #**488** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 8:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jets4Life

One question comes to mind after watching the Civic Election:

Who is hotter- Steen's daughter or Katz's new girlfriend?

They should oil wrestle so that we can find out.

Boreal · #**489** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 10:38 PM**

Ol' Harve, reppin' D-Mac hard again. Purple drank!

...at least Lillian is gone. I no longer have the miserable sensation of fire burning through my veins when I consider our city council. One useless Smith is okay.

DowntownWpg · #**490** Posted **Oct 29, 2010, 12:03 AM**

Edit: On second thought, that was kinda creepy. Sorry.

Reed Solomon · #**491** Posted **Oct 29, 2010, 6:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by drew

I cannot believe Harvey Smith won again.

Well, December 25th is right around the corner you know.

Nobody wants a lump of coal from Santa!

MooseJets · #**492** Posted **Oct 29, 2010, 6:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

He has tones of cash, has a huge house, lives in Tuxedo and is supposed to relate and represent the people in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Winnipeg?

.......odd

Steen now lives in Transcona.

Jets4Life · #**493** Posted **Oct 29, 2010, 12:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

I wonder if many of the voters in Elmwood are aware that Steen no longer plays for the Jets or whether they know the Jets no longer play here?

The Jets are gone?

Biff · #**494** Posted **Oct 29, 2010, 2:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by MooseJets

Steen now lives in Transcona.

What? Really? He had a really nice house on Stanford Bay in Tuxedo. I'm surprised that someone would trade Tuxedo for Transcona. Must be downsizing.

vid · #**495** Posted **Oct 29, 2010, 6:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

Well, that's Canadian federalism for you..

Had the American civil war not shaped our country by giving us a preference for a strong central government in order to keep rebellious states / provinces weak, maybe these lesser layers of government could do something for us plebes.

The provinces, combined, actually bring in more tax revenue than the federal government (but maybe that is because municipalities are technically part of the provincial government and their revenues are included?). We're one of the few countries that is like that. The US federal government plays with more money than all their states and territories combined.

I agree that provincial governments should be strengthened though. The federal level should be more of a unifying framework to help the provinces work together better, not some sort of overlord power than controls everything.

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Originally Posted by Biff

I like Thomas Steen and all but i don't understand how he is/can represent Elmwood. He has tones of cash, has a huge house, lives in Tuxedo and is supposed to relate and represent the people in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Winnipeg?

.......odd

Union leaders make tonnes of money and represent "the oppressed proletariat" well enough to bankrupt corporations. I'm sure they'll be "represented" just fine.

I live in the poorest ward in my city and almost everyone who ever runs for ward councillor here lives in a tiny neighbourhood that is only part of our ward to make the population numbers add up right. They never even come to my part of the ward, unless it is to buy a building for cheap and become a slumlord.

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Originally Posted by DowntownWpg

Edit: On second thought, that was kinda creepy. Sorry.

My morbid curiosity makes me want to know what it was. My stomach says I am better off not knowing.

rrskylar · #**496** Posted **Oct 30, 2010, 4:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

What? Really? He had a really nice house on Stanford Bay in Tuxedo. I'm surprised that someone would trade Tuxedo for Transcona. Must be downsizing.

Poor ol' Thomas Steen ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, apparently he lost a lot of money in poor investments so the pay of a city councilor looks pretty good to him right now.

MooseJets · #**497** Posted **Nov 1, 2010, 1:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

What? Really? He had a really nice house on Stanford Bay in Tuxedo. I'm surprised that someone would trade Tuxedo for Transcona. Must be downsizing.

I think his ex wife got the Tuxedo house in the divorce.