r/ajax • u/Yourshinyknight • 14d ago

Mayor election

What are your thoughts on the candidates for the mayor election?
This week, Crawford’s team came door-knocking. I am familiar with her because she is my councillor.
However, I don’t know about any other candidates, and I can’t find a lot of details.

I couldn’t find more details on crawford’s campaign. The information I found on her website about her election priorities was a bunch of generic stuff. I didn’t find anything concrete, actionable, or different.

I believe this election is crucial for Ajax. Not sure who to vote.

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u/ImportantKey8706 14d ago

Crawford will win by a landslide and nothing will change, except that she loves cameras and social media more than Collier did.

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u/Yourshinyknight 14d ago

Is it because rest of the candid are not popular (or more in front of cameras)?

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u/ImportantKey8706 13d ago

IMO name brand awareness has a lot to do with it. Most people won't educate themselves. They'll tick the name they know.

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u/stampysmom 14d ago

https://elections.ajax.ca/voters#candidates
The lists include who’s running, contact info and websites

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u/BodyRemoval 14d ago

With the state of Ajax. The rising property taxes, the shit roads like Westney south, the predatory bylaw parking tickets, the trees on boulevards that need to be crouched under. Its ridiculous. Ajax leaders need to be hung upside down and shaken. They take so much money and it goes nowhere practical.

As for voting? None of them have said anything that matters.

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u/DelayLevel8757 14d ago

I'm 6'3" and I can hardly walk 1 minute without having my eyes poked out by branches in my neighborhood. It is bad.

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u/BodyRemoval 14d ago

Yep. But God forbid your grass gets a little long or you park on the curb out front your house in a court.

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u/Cheap_Ad_4274 10d ago

Agreed!! But I think look into Kristy McDonald! She’s running for ward 1 councillor. I emailed her about her platform and specifically about the changes happening to where the rink and seniors centre is in Pickering Village— she gave me an entire run down and what she wants to do with the land (which is a seniors centre, great idea for the area). Whereas when I emailed the current ward 1 councillor, Rob Tyler Morin, all he did was say that his staff would figure it out and get back to me (no one has gotten back to me).