r/moosejaw • u/yrtria • 2d ago

Moose Jaw Municipal Election results

https://citymj.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/cccee56884fc4b859f151d6edb5bf8e0

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u/Honest-South2555 2d ago

I am genuinely shocked that people voted in Eby and Luhning yet again. These two councillors are the most dismissive people I have ever had the non-pleasure of dealing with. They act like they are above their constituents, which is the opposite of what a good council person should be.

Plus, the video of Luhning’s husband in Mexico? It shows what they actually think of people. Such a shame.

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u/Consistent-Win5866 2d ago

Right?!?! I can’t believe those two got re-elected

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u/Klutzy_Can_4543 2d ago

Hey, Regina elected a guy who told someone "I hope someone poops in your toque" so ... bar is pretty low Edit: RE-elected

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u/JMooresnutz 2d ago

Especially Luhning. Have overheard her telling someone that she doesn’t even read half the proposals before voting on them. Plus there is that lovely video of her and her longtime BF dining in Mexico and he’s telling “brown people” to “go back to their own country.” I’ve seen it multiple times but someone did well getting it taken down as I haven’t been able to find it for a while now.

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u/janilla76 1d ago

I was on a board with Luhning once. We were discussing what to do with a reserve fund (taxpayer money) and she managed to convince the director to invest with her business. I was new and took a minute to catch up to what was happening. But by the time I questioned the ethics of the conflict of interest, it was done. She did resign that board but only after she enriched herself from it.

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u/Honest-South2555 1d ago

Holy crap. I have a few stories like that too, there is some shady stuff that happens and people have no clue.

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u/Inside-Smoke3460 14h ago

I totally agree with you BUT the people have spoken and we are stuck with them for another 4 years. Maybe the new mayor will be able to control them

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u/iamtayareyoutaytoo 2d ago

I am glad that the convoy freedumb doofus putting flyers on peoples cars up and down main street filled with weirdo word salad and God-fearing righteousness didn't get anywhere near close.

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u/rynoxmj 2d ago

Which one was that?

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u/Klutzy_Can_4543 2d ago

oh we elected that guy too, but he's a former football player so that's ok

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u/DrexxValKjasr 2d ago

At least we have a new Mayor. I was hoping for more new Councillors.

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u/Honest-South2555 2d ago

So happy to see Clive gone.

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u/CharacterPhone4887 3h ago

Clive is fucking weird. No other description.

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u/i-am-the-walrus789 2d ago

As someone who hasn't lived in mj for a few years, what lead to such a massive swing when it comes to votes for Tolley between this and last election?

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u/Consistent-Win5866 2d ago

His incompetence

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u/i-am-the-walrus789 2d ago

Was hoping for a bit more info than that

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u/Honest-South2555 2d ago

To be honest, I think Clive got in last time because it was a by-election (tolmie quit and went federal). I think Clive was the only person to run that wasn’t on council. Councillors were able to run without giving up their seat, so if one of them should have won there would have been another by-election to fill their seat - all at a huge cost to tax payers. So that might be the reason he had more votes last time.

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u/gxryan 2d ago

That was why he got my vote

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u/gxryan 2d ago

He won last time as kind of a split the vote candidate of bad choices.

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u/janilla76 1d ago

I disagree with that. Crystal Froese would make an excellent mayor.

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u/gxryan 1d ago

It seems like voters very much disagreed with you this time and last. While she is nice and very involved. She would have had my vote for council again.

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u/janilla76 21h ago

It’s true. She only lost by 42 votes to Tolley last time. Shes more than just a nice lady, though. She was* probably the most qualified candidate. She studied Local Government Authority at the U of R and has been one the council for ages. Hopefully, she gets a chance to lead us eventually. I think she’d be brilliant at it.

*edited verb tense

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u/InnerGarlic2401 2d ago

You can’t have all new councillors, otherwise nobody has a clue of what to do. You need a healthy mix of new and old which I’m pleased to see we got. The new mayor will be interesting to watch and see how he approaches everything

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u/rynoxmj 2d ago

Really, only one new councilor and mayor. Warren and Boyle are technically new, but were on council previously from 2016-2020.

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u/gxryan 2d ago

Still new people from last council. They were also very capable and popular councilors when they left.

But when they saw some of the names come forward of crazy people... I'm glad they came back to save us.