Next year's Council will be Mayor Mussatto, Councilors Bookham, Clark, Heywood and Keating. New Councillors Don Bell and Linda Buchanan join them.
The bottom line is that Linda has replaced Mary and Don has replaced Bob Fearnley and the difference between the two is the big change on Council. It is a 4-3 council but a look at Don's platform makes me think that the day of flip-flops is over.
In the next election, I predict that Rod Clark will make his last try for Mayor and his slippage to 4th was mostly votes he threw away with his flip-flop on duplexes with secondary suites. LEARN THE FEARNLEY LESSON.
A few at City Hall tonight were planning for a byelection in June 2013 to replace Craig but it is very doubtful Naomi will lose. If so we'll be facing an NDP provincial govt and we'll all be too worried about a bad economy turning into a disaster.
A midterm byelection would be very tough with eight or so people all jumping into a race that is much like a Mayor's race and Cheryl Leia would be ready to run and being one out this time would be very likely to win. For all those who didn't run for Mayor with three guys dividing the same vote, a byelection would be far worse. Of course, I'd run but knowing the odds.
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