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Originally Posted by sailor734
Not sure about wards but I was told at least one of them is running for an "at large" seat (sorry, can't remember who....Jones maybe?).
I believe Dan Cullan grew up on the Westside and he is in the process of opening a second store in South Bay. I was told he is going to run there so he'd be Ward 1.
Jones lives in Millidgeville and I was told Dempsey lives in Drury Cove (Ward 4 I think?)......not sure about Merrithew (Millidgeville?). If Jones runs at large that would leave Merrithew as the Ward 2 candidate of the group.
I think Dempsey overperformed if anything in Portland-Simonds given John Dornan's high profile combined with Blaine Higgs' unpopularity. I had a conversation with Dempsey during the election and he struck me as a very credible and serious person. He certainly has the most impressive CV of the bunch......almost to the point of me wondering if he's not over qualified for SJ common council.  |
Thanks for the clarity.
I heard a couple of people bring up the Cullen candidacy and indeed he seems to be running in Ward 1. Without knowing the guy or his platform, I assume he's a huge upgrade from Killen.
Drury Cove is in Ward 4, true. It really should be in Ward 2 despite being barely contiguous to it. With population growth in the city concentrated in Millidgeville, the far east side, and somewhat uptown/south, we probably need to rejigger ward boundaries (as does Moncton) but I don't know if there's a mechanism for that.
Re: Dempsey's 2024 performance, he did about as well %-wise vs the city at large compared to 2020 numbers as the other candidates. The caveat is he was running against a star Liberal candidate, where TikTok-what's-her-name in Lancaster did basically as well as Dempsey did against a more generic Liberal. Maybe that means Lancaster has a higher PC floor than Portland-Simonds, or maybe it means Dempsey held up better vs Dornan than expected. Most likely both.
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