Scott Gillingham

Um, I- I made the comment, I, I repeated to her in this interview that I'm really impressed with the people that have come forward, even, uh, how do I put this? Even if I don't agree with them, uh, i- in terms of their political bent, right, the orient- the political orientation being left ring- w- left wing, right wing, all that.

Even if I don't come from the same side, you can see that there is, in fact, a growing sense of commonality in Winnipeg between left and right with dissatisfaction with the way things have been run under Mayor Scott Gillingham in the last four years.

And Gillingham doesn't carry all the blame.

The other councilors, uh, also being subject to the slings and arrows of those who say that there's better ways, that, uh, spending has gotten out of control, that think that, uh, that crime, public safety, has not been properly addressed.

I think it's also this issue of civil society, and so I'm so glad you're, you know, breaking down how to go present in delegation, how to go talk to your representatives there.

Um, what I am gonna watch for is what is Scott Gillingham, who's the lead candidate, going to say on his position on taxes? He's probably still gonna go with his 3.5%, um, which was his position previously, and that will really strap us into a very narrow, uh, financial or tight financial situation for the city of Winnipeg.

So I think the more voices saying we need, uh, these third spaces, and then connecting it to what the pressure is is to spend on policing.

And our alternative budget says, "Let's cut policing by 10%." That's been the position of the community that we work with for a long time because of the whole Black Lives Matter movement previously was very much looking at that, plus we actually, I work at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, have a paper coming out about, um, evidence-based practices to reduce crime.

some of that mental health burden away from the police and giving it to the right people who can handle those things.

Um, in any case, not getting into those kinds of details, but every election year seems to be in a fragile state, right? For example, [laughs] I'm going there.

Scott Gillingham is actually out campaigning in my neighborhood right now with Jeff Browaty, and nothing tells me m- more than this, that they are feeling fragile.

Mm.

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Uh, Scott Gillingham.

My favorite.

[laughs] Scotty G, [laughs] we have in our notes here.

Scott Gillingham, Devi Sharma, Shawn "Dozy" Dobson, and Russ Wyatt, everyone's least favorite person on the planet.

So these people don't believe that any of these things in this pledge are a priority, and they have made that known by saying, "No thanks" to trees.

I would rather have an asphalt parking lot.

Suddenly, the city started to do things.

In this case, the city being Mayor Scott Gillingham's administration.

And I am proud to say That there's no, you know, somebody could tell me I'm wrong, but there's no coincidence that three locations in particular that I've been pounding on for months.

All summer, suddenly in the same week, I'll get some degree of service, including a hazmat team going out to the Riverwalk.

I mean, I got a fair amount of grief when I was on Kick FM, clearly.

But this work is important.

You can contribute by going to the Donate tab, or you can contact me directly, martygoldlive at gmail.com. A preliminary poll was issued last week indicating that among decided voters, Mayor Scott Gillingham was in the lead among decided voters.

Kevin Kline, who... is my is the publisher of the of the winnipeg sun and uh technically a boss of mine and i'm going to clarify a couple of misconceptions that are running out there uh he was showed up in second place very early in his campaign i don't know that he made more than like two policy announcements when that poll was in the field maybe only one 23 mike voyagis uh clocking in at 11 uh the other candidates uh various other candidates all clocking in basically at one percent um The poll was of around 600 people.

And I wish that he would read the room.

But unfortunately, as we can already see, especially in the mayoral candidates, white men just want a white man and are just flooding this ballot with nonsense.

It is very exhausting.

There are other candidates running in that ward.

Sam? So anyone can register, Patty.

But in order to get your name on the ballot, you have to get enough valid signatures.

So for councillors, it's 25, but for mayoral candidates, it's actually 250 signatures.

And when you collect those signatures, you also need folks' address to prove that they are citizens of this city.

We're not here to talk about that either.

In today's show, we'll be talking to a mayoral candidate, Noah Redden, and we'll discuss some questions that came up about school trustees, but they came in too late, so I wasn't able to ask the candidates at the time of the interview.

But I'll ask them on here and hope that our school trustee listeners will call in and give us their answers.

I also have part two of your election volunteering homework coming up in today's episode.