This is getting interesting. We know that today, Sutclffe's co-chair Eli El-Chantiry is hiring a new police chief a few days before the election. Here's a series of Tweets from Chiarelli.
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Bob Chiarelli
@Bob_Chiarelli
Something stinks about the announced hiring of the new Police Chief. The fact that it’s @_MarkSutcliffe's election co-chair @Eli_ElChantiry
doing the hiring & it’s being pushed through with unseemly haste on a Friday just days before the election makes it smell very bad. 1/3
9:03 PM · Oct 20, 2022
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@Bob_Chiarelli
The public is distrustful and cynical about City Hall politics. This expected announcement tomorrow just adds to that cynicism. That’s not what we need to heal the distrust between the public and the Police, and between the public and City Hall. 2/3
Bob Chiarelli
@Bob_Chiarelli
12h
Shame on those displaying such outrageous backroom politics. 3/3
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https://twitter.com/Bob_Chiarelli/status/1583262791833915392?t=F-AA8_-laflPXwDP1m3IrA&s=33
Meanwhile:
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Tyler Meredith
@tylermeredith
@CBCOttawa
@_MarkSutcliffe just said he never said he’d build a police station in the ByWard Market.
It’s literally what he’s advertising.
Does he know what his own campaign is saying and doing?
#ottvote #ottvotes #ottnews
7:34 AM · Oct 21, 2022
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Sutcliffe has been calling it a "Storefront Neighbourhood Operations Centre". Technicalities, I guess.
And this one takes the cake:
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Joanne Chianello
@jchianello
Mayoral candidate @_MarkSutcliffe said on @OttawaMorning debate that he didn't say competitor @cmckenney was waging a war on cars. He told @OttawaCitizen: “I’m not going to declare war on cars or any mode of transportation." #ottnews #ottvote
7:44 AM · Oct 21, 2022
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https://twitter.com/jchianello/status/1583423901631029249
That and criticizing McKenney's "free transit" (under 18 only, be he makes it sound like they are promising free transit across the board) have been his main battle horses the whole time.
These moves seem kind of desperate. The hiring of a new police chief now, instead of after the election as well. Watson Club afraid their candidate will lose? What if the Watson Club dealt the final blow to their own candidate by doing this?
And if Bell is their choice, oh man. The guy who was part of the failed leadership during the convoy.
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