By Pepper Parr
June 19, 2014
BURLINGTON, ON.
There will be phone calls from the city clerk’s office later today or early Friday when a surprising nomination in one of the city’s six wards gets filed. It will be a courtesy call advising a council member that there is now another candidate in the race.
A new name will file nomination papers for one of the six wards later today or on Friday. This one should be a fun race. Should the new candidate win – it will certainly change the tone of this city council.
A young at heart and very fit citizen with a strong business background and a number of years of community service experience will fill in the forms and pay the $100 fee and be in the race for a seat that some think can’t be won – but after watching 70 years of Tory blue ink slide of the Burlington map anything is possible.
It doesn’t look as if there is going to be a candidate to run against the Mayor; there are now more than six running against incumbent Blair Lancaster in ward 6.
Jack Dennison is back as a candidate in ward 4 – we will have something to say at a later date on the way his Ontario Municipal Board hearing has been handled.
At least 6 running against the incumbent in ward 6? Of course, as ward 6 seems to be the forgotten ward and has the largest population of new Burlington citizens. Many up here are tired of the south, Aldershot, and downtown getting all the attention.