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While some open districts this election seem to have more lawn signs than eligible voters, HRM’s two mayoral candidates won’t be slapping any advertisements onto residential properties.
On Monday incumbent mayor Mike Savage and challenger Lil MacPherson issued joint press releases announcing their decision to forego lawn signs in favour of “other means of promoting political engagement.”
“I think it’s the right time for a ‘no signs’ approach in Halifax,” writes Savage, who claims to still have “thousands of signs” from his last campaign in 2012.
“Efforts to improve pro-environmental behaviours are necessary, and should be part of decision-making processes and structures,” writes MacPherson in the same release.
A climate change and food activist, MacPherson is running on an environmental and sustainable development platform.
The candidates’ campaign teams “believe” this is the first time in Canada lawn signs haven’t been used in a contested mayoral race.
Hopefully the two candidates will find something to disagree about come the first mayoral debate, taking place October 6 at Neptune Theatre. Election day is October 15.
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Why is she wasting her time? And for someone screaming poor as a result of an alleged loss of business, should she not be focusing her energies on her business and not ego? Fail.
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign…
We need a party system in Council so that we don’t keep having 20+ differing agendas.
hishighness: Representative Government requires that Councilors, MLAs and MPs represent people, not parties. The party system has hi-jacked provincial and federal politics. Those folks sell their soul and their vote to the party apparatus, where power trumps policy.
Please don’t infect municipal politics with the blight that is the party system…
@hishighness: The fact that we don’t officially have a party system is the best part of municipal politics. I may not even vote in the next provincial election, because all parties are terrible options this time around. At least in municipal elections I know my councillor can pick and choose the issues that matter, rather than toeing the party line*
*Not to say that there aren’t current councillors and candidates who are unofficially toeing the party line. If Tim Rissesco wins in Dartmouth you can bet he’ll do what the Liberals tell him, rather than have any original thoughts of his own.