So we have had a great time getting our stuff organized with BRAIN STORMS at Neechi Commons for candidates for mayor. We began this past Saturday with Paula Havixbeck (click here for a link to info on her visit with us) and have dates upcoming with Judy, Brian and Robert. We are following up with the other candidates to see if they can commit to an upcoming event. In other news the Winnipeg Labour Council has endorsed Judy, Mark Chipman has endorsed Brian for mayor. The WLC has also interestingly endorsed the 10 candidates for city council…which is wierd since candidates cannot even begin to declare this until tomorrow! There have been a few announcements and we are working on getting these organized in an easy to access way for everyone.
We did a check on the internet engagement of these particular candidates. Brian Bowman seems to be the most active on his social media accounts, his website is a great place to get that information. Paula Havixbeck is doing better in recent days, though we gave her a gentle nudge at our BS seeing a 5 day gap in her campaign twitter account, you can see her new purple website here, its is very nice on the eyes. Judy Wasylycia-Leis does have a website (click here), but at the time of this article has a 3 day twitter dormancy period – over a weekend, potentially a long weekend and the latest news on her site was June 18th. We cannot find any information on candidate Michel Fillon, not even a really recent photograph. Candidate Michael Vogiatzakis has come alive on social media with twitter and an official website now available. Robert Falcon Oulette who wins the award for coolest website URL (falcon2014.com) and is very active, being the only candidate so far to to a reddit AMA. Finally, Gord Steeves’ website is now finished its construction period and is live, and he also tweeted 11 hours before the time this article was written.
BRAIN STORM SCHEDULE – Saturdays @ 12 noon @ Neechi Commons
July 5th: Judy Wasylycia-Leis
July 12th: Brian Bowman
July 26th: Robert Falcon-Oulette
If you are interested in getting involved simply come on down to Neechi Commons, or check this link about becoming a contributor for this blog!
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