By Pepper Parr
August 16th, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
Is she or isn’t she?
Charismatic, competitive – ready for big time politics locally?
Is Kimberly Calderbank going to run for the office of Mayor?
If she is – and at this point we don’t know – her recent LinkedIn piece could have been read any number of ways.
Calderbank considers herself a strong strategic thinker – is her game plan to wait for the very last minute and then announce giving her some almost immediate momentum ?
The last half of August is always a quiet time; the pace will quicken as soon as the Labour Day holiday is over.
Calderbank was identified as the “developers” candidate in 2018 when she ran for the ward 2 council seat.
She wasn’t trounced but she certainly didn’t win.
The Gazette interviewed Calderbank during the 2018 election; we weren’t all that impressed.
It could easily be taken as a political statement.
We heard a young woman who certainly had career aspirations but not much more than that say she wanted to be Mayor but didn’t appear to have much in the way of a plan or a vision for the city.
She runs a successful private marketing business and has several media related jobs.
She serves as the media point person fo the Halton Region Police Services Board as well as the Ontario Police Services Board.
One of her clients is the Food4Life non-profit organization where we learned a number of months ago that they had contingency plans in place for marketing support in the event that Calderbank filed nomination papers.
We certainly got h impression from that source that Calderbank was going to be a candidate – and it wasn’t going to be for a Council seat.
She has very strong support with several families that could and would put a lot of weight behind a campaign.
She has a very good working relationship with Cogeco.
All the pieces needed to launch an election campaign exist.
It could happen – but it has to happen before 2:00 pm on Friday the 19th – that is when nominations close.
Should Calderbank run for the office of Mayor it will be one heck of a race.
Salt with Pepper is the musings, reflections and opinions of the publisher of the Burlington Gazette, an online newspaper that was formed in 2010 and is a member of the National Newsmedia Council.
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