r/Oshawa • u/HairyForged • 2d ago

Mayoral candidates

I am just wondering if there's anywhere I could go to find a decent breakdown of each of the candidates. I've been to a few of their pages and it mostly seems like standard politician drivel.

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u/loon-attack 2d ago

I spent my morning researching them and came up with basically nothing. As you said, basic generic politician dribble.

Solutions for problems! Money for things! Good times ahead!

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u/blazesonthai 1d ago

This is why it's so hard for my wife and I to figure out who to vote for. We had to do a lot of research and it just confuses us even more lol

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u/Michael_Jay_Coons 1d ago

Hi, I have an entire 23 page document put together of my current platform and steps to achieve those visions.

However, I’m not asking for more money or promising city paid workers a bunch of extras. I work in an operations/administration role in my current position. If I spent money recklessly I’d be fired on the spot.

The link is available on my Facebook page in the pinned post. “Michael coons candidate for mayor of Oshawa”

However, after answering loads more emails I think I’m going to be adding several more pages to my document over the next few days.

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u/theredheadednurse 2d ago

The mayoral debate will be October 8 at 6pm.
You can watch it on the Oshawa Chamber’s YouTube channel.

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u/Michael_Jay_Coons 1d ago edited 1d ago

That one’s Questions are paywalled. Or at least that’s how they felt to me personally. I would have signed up but unfortunately wasn’t able to find someone to watch my toddler. I’m sure having her strapped to my chest at this event would’ve been a no go. Lol

There are open-to-everyone mayoral events happening all day October 6th. Where the residents get to ask questions.

3-5 at Electionfest and then 5:30 - 7:30 at 70king. Both you get to drop in and actually engage with candidates and ask them questions directly.

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u/matpower 2d ago

The best tool I've seen is this vote compass the star put out. Unfortunately not all candidates have participated but it's still better than nothing

https://votecompass.thestar.com/

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u/Michael_Jay_Coons 1d ago

All candidates were given months to fill out their votecompass to enable voters to see where they align easier.

Unfortunately, it was primarily incumbents who didn’t participate because they feel safe holding down a seat.

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u/Half_integer_spin 19h ago

If it's run by the Red-Star it cannot be trusted. I recall a "tool" they put out a few years ago that some friends and I tested. No matter what responses you gave it indicated the lieberal candidate was the most aligned with your views.

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u/Important-Soft-7836 2d ago

It's pretty shitty choice, it is coming down to Tito and Jim Lee, but Tito is leading the race which sucks as he is a Wiesel

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u/Michael_Jay_Coons 1d ago

Only thing to change this is voter turnout.

It didn’t help a few Facebook groups were blocking every single post I tried to share to gain exposure over the last 1.5 months.

I put my plans and policy into written words with trackable progress. Even if I don’t win at least my transparency to the voting population was far superior to my competition.

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u/Important-Soft-7836 1d ago

I just read your platform, I believe you are the only one to develop a full platform, I wish that you had more popularity. More social media presence might help. Are you in the debate on October 8th? If so I wish you good luck

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u/Michael_Jay_Coons 22h ago

I’ll try and work hard on my social media over the next 2 weeks!

Unfortunately, I missed the registration deadline for the Chamber event. (We just had a baby September 15th and I was unable to find childcare in time for my toddler - wife’s still in recovery from a C-section so it would be unfair for her to be left home with a toddler and a newborn less than 1 month post surgery) I’ll be at an event at CDCD during that time so I’m not completely missing out on exposure opportunities.

If you see someone around North Oshawa or downtown this week with a a toddler strapped into a carrier - that might be me. I’m bringing her to at least 3 events with me this week.

I posted some “Open to the public” election events in the weekly event section of this Reddit. The OFLA meet and greet is probably one of the better events for residents to attend. Last I checked 35 candidates (council & school board trustees) confirmed their attendance. Gives you the opportunity to ask questions to ward, mayoral, and trustee candidates. (No scripted questions - although I believe that also means no public responses since it’s 1 on 1)