Diane Colley-Urquhart making her mayoral move?

April 19, 2010 by DJ Kelly
Filed under: Calgary, Politics 

One of the more fun aspects of having a blog is the number of “tips” I get sent by readers and marketers. Usually there is very little newsworthy about them, other times they might be newsworthy but the tipster provides little in the way to back up their claim. In both cases I usually ignore the tip for those reasons. However this tip is different.

This past weekend I recieved a tip from two different sources that Diane Colley-Urquart, current alderman for ward 13, has been buying advertising space for a run at the mayor seat.

It strikes me this isn’t the kind of thing an overly enthusiastic volunteer would do without the candidate’s go ahead on a campaign, so I’m inclined to believe it to be a sign she’s in.

Neither tipster could provide evidence without outing themselves as a tipster and so I have none. But I know both of these folks and trust them, so I’ve decided to report it. Take if for what it is: completely unsubstantiated or verified by yours truly.

Personally I have my fingers crossed it’s true. We need more women running for council! It will be nice to see her make a run along side fellow aldermanic mayoral wannabes Joe Connelly and Ric McIver (still no official announcement from the latter).

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  1. Andrew on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 8:36 pm

    2. Sweet. I'll be warming up the #DCUFAIL hashtag on twitter for this Hindenberg of a campaign.

    Seriously though, Calgary needs more women candidates in the mayoral race (and the races for council seats, for that matter), but we don't need THIS particular ignorant panderer, regardless of her gender.

  2. Who Is Running For Alderman in Calgary Ward 13? ( aka..The Ward No One Seems To Care About?) | Calgary Politics on Tue, 8th Jun 2010 9:13 am

    3. [...] 13 is has been represented by Diane Colley-Urquhart since they year 2000.  There is speculation that she is considering a run at the Mayor’s chair this year and while I am not sure if it is authorized or not, there is even a new twitter group [...]

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