Surrey’s mayor has made it to the 25-person shortlist by an organization called World Mayor (which I never hear from except when someone from Canada gets onto this list).
If you want to vote to support Dianne Watts, instead of Newark’s Cory Booker (seen by some as the next Obama), Calgary Mayor Dave Bronconnier (boo Calgary), or the current ruler of the Most Loved City of Bus Advocates (Beto Richa of Curitiba), you can go here. Vote early and often.
16 responses so far ↓
1 Paul // Jun 25, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Where’s Gregor!?!?!
Oh wait.
It’s “Best Mayor”, not “Coolest Mayor”.
Oh well. Party on!
2 Whalley World // Jun 25, 2010 at 9:06 pm
The best mayor and the sexiest mayor.
3 gmgw // Jun 25, 2010 at 10:59 pm
“The best mayor and the sexiest mayor.”
Ah, another devoted reader of “The Surrey Now” is heard from.
gmgw
4 Norm Farrell // Jun 25, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Is this like the Who’s Who book that you pay to get in?
5 nara is for lovers // Jun 26, 2010 at 9:39 am
i mean, is there really anything to say about this?
6 Whalley World // Jun 26, 2010 at 9:54 am
Hey gmgw at least my comment was straight from the heart.
7 blaffergassted // Jun 26, 2010 at 12:03 pm
She does have nice legs.
http://www.straight.com/article-280543/vancouver/watts-dodges-questions-about-family-business
8 Norman // Jun 26, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Since her burning ambition is to be the next Gordon Campbell, I’ll resist supporting her in every way I can.
9 gmgw // Jun 27, 2010 at 1:35 am
I’m relieved to learn that your comment wasn’t from your head, WhalleyWorld, as I already suspected that was the case.
gmgw
10 Bill Smolick // Jun 27, 2010 at 12:03 pm
My god gmta you are a self-righteous conceited prick, aren’t you?
There’s nothing WRONG with living in Surrey. I don’t but if a job came up there, I’d move.
Especially if it meant I didn’t have to listen to comments like yours.
11 Bill Smolick // Jun 27, 2010 at 12:21 pm
That should say gmgw
Stupid iPad.
12 Bill Smolick // Jun 28, 2010 at 3:41 pm
So what happened to the site earlier? Domain expire?
13 kermit // Jun 29, 2010 at 8:44 am
She might be doing good things for ‘downtown’ Surrey, but it’s just sprawl as usual in South Surrey/Grandview Heights, Port Kells, Clayton/Cloverdale, etc….
14 Booge // Jun 29, 2010 at 9:04 am
@Bill Smolick
I think francesbula.com has been hacked. last night it had big issues. @francis Time to get off of WP I think.
15 spartikus // Jun 29, 2010 at 10:04 am
On her Twitter feed, Frances said it was a domain issue.
16 Michael Geller // Jun 29, 2010 at 3:47 pm
“She might be doing good things for ‘downtown’ Surrey, but it’s just sprawl as usual in South Surrey/Grandview Heights, Port Kells, Clayton/Cloverdale, etc….”
While there is no doubt that much of Surrey has been characterized by sprawl since its birth, I know that there is a concerted effort to try and create more compact town centres in Newton, Cloverdale, South Surrey, etc. It’s a real challenge, given the car dominated planning in the past, and the poor public transit system south of the Fraser. However, I predict that over the next decade we’ll see some genuine improvements….
It won’t be easy, but just look at how Vancouver’s Seymour Street and the surrounding Dowtown South area and Yaletown have been transformed over the past fifteen years. When there’s a market imperative, changes will happen.
As the City’s slogan says “the future lives here”.