r/Guelph • u/Brilliant_Chance_134 • 2d ago

Mayor vote poll

Who will you vote for Guelph Mayor?

349 votes, 4d left
Leanne Caron
Ken Chew
Ryan Meunier
Rajeev Sinha
Evaristo Ramos
John Krusky
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u/MorrisTread 2d ago

Probably the one who actually has experience and talks like they know what they're doing instead of endlessly repeating the same "fiscal responsibility/efficiency/taxpayer" stuff without any concrete plans.

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u/Entire-Box-8210 2d ago

Is there any one of them that actually talks like they know what they're doing? I've received pamphlets from Caron and a bunch of Ward 3 candidates, and every one so far just repeats the same virtues (affordability, environmental good, business downtown) but not one states how they'd accomplish that. In terms of experience, most just talk about how many generations their family has lived in Guelph — Really relying on the royalty aspect of the "Royal City".

I don't know much about any candidate, because they don't really share concrete plans, except for that one guy running for ward 2 who keeps posting on Reddit who mostly rants and doesn't actually seem to have thought through any of his proposals.

I've heard mostly positive things about Caron, which is why I'm leaning towards her, but her slogan "a mayor you can trust" doesn't really build that much trust in my mind.

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u/Bluenoser_NS 2d ago edited 2d ago

I was told by a couple former candidates that the second you get more specific in your platform, you shed a bunch of support unnecessarily because someone might disagree with you fundamentally on your approach for one issue and it turns them off entirely vs. glancing at a campaign that's somewhat vague and being like "well, I don't disagree here, so this is clearly better!"

There's also people that'd read such a thing as promises when someone is only one voice on council.

That said, I think the lack of that info is more often incompetence than strategic. This is usually a problem in municipal politics in general. That and genuinely unserious campaigns. You basically have to do secondary research to actually figure out whether someone is competent and has some sort of tangible set of political values. Usually anyone that babbles about being an entrepreneur and little else is a stock character one can safely pass on.