Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 24, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 Winnipeg free october 1995 Thompsons poll puts her in Lead by Nick Martin reporter a poll hastily ordered by mayor Susan Thompson sunday morning places her in the Lead with 28 per cent of decided Thompsons Camp announced Peter Kaufmann was second at 24 per cent and Terry Duguid had 23 per said the poll conducted by Western Opin Ion Western president Brian Owen said Thompsons Camp called him at just after that Days Winnipeg Sun reported a Quatro associates poll had Duguid Well in the Sun poll put Duguid at 29 Pel Kaufmann 23 and Thompson Owen said he interviewed 572 voters at random across the after first weeding out people who were definitely or Likely not intend ing to the Sample is accurate plus or minus per cent 19 times out of Owen if they were i asked which Way they were that left 15 per cent seven per cent who refused to divulge their and three pet cent scattered among four fringe Owen said he was comfortable that his results were much closer to last wednesdays free press poll conducted by probe research that poll put Thompson at 26 Pel with Duguid and Kaufmann tied at 18 per it did not Weed out those who do not intend to Owen was confident of his but a lot of people make up their mind fairly close to the Duguid said the Sun poll is consistent with his own internal but declined to release Kaufmann said his own internal polls and sources he claims to have in Thompsons Camp say he and Thompson Are neck and Duguid said he would take action on the main planks of his election platform As soon As he takes he repeated his Promise of a Roll Back of City Hall spending to 1994 Levels immediately upon taking As he promised to end the annual controversies surrounding budget cuts to certain City ser Duguid said he would direct the administration to find stable fund ing for Snow Clear ing and jets still hot topic in Ward by Stevens wild City Hall reporter theres a Ward in the City where the aborted efforts to save the Winnipeg jets and build a new Arena is still an while Little is heard about the Long and bitter debate in most parts the following is a list of do in the free Transcona Ward Transcona Springfield school Divi Sion Brandon River Heights Ward vital Ward Point Douglas Ward Norwood and Boniface school divisions fort Garry school Portage la Prairie Charles Ward North Kildonan Ward school Selkirk Boniface Ward James school fort Rouge Ward Assini Bome South school division James Ward seven Oaks school Dos Torcom River East school of the Issue is alive and Well in Daniel former my Cyril keeper is pointing his Finger at incumbent Amaro Silva for Silvas endorse ment of the failed Arena the past and Amaro Silva in showed poor judgment in putting All that Money on the keeper they were putting the Money in the wrong we Are saddled for the jets losses for the next who As chairman of the and culture committee has been a member of mayor Susan Thompson Cabinet for the last three said his support for the Arena Deal was an Effort to release the City from its obligations under the 1991 interim operating that agreement commits the City and the province to pay the jets losses until those losses Are estimated to be at least million for the this hockey i wanted out of the losses agree Silva we were throw ing Money Down a Black Hole and getting nothing Silva pointed out that the 13 of the 14 councillors representing Winnipeg in the nineties voted for the losses the votes were there to kill that said pointing out that keeper is the win candidate in his win made it it was the stupidest Deal the City Ever we have flushed All those dollars Down the toilet and we have Mclntyre nothing for it except a lot of heartache and grief As a Gordon the third candidate in the said the City should go to court to release itself from the losses lets hardball Halushka the Bottom line is for them the owners and the National hockey league to take some financial responsibility for the shaped like a slice of Daniel Mclntyre stretches from some of the poorest parts of the City around Central Park to comfortable mid dle class neighbourhoods North of Arlington Banning Street resident Steven Herzog said crime has become an Issue As More Young families move into the displacing older res they want the streets to be Safe for the Herzog Herzog suggested that foot patrols would increase police Visi who has expressed an interest in running for mayor in the pointed to his record Over the last three including his record of helping to put More officers on the keeper said More Money should be spent on Community based v i w w w Dacan adar Apadaca a Udac Arak canal Canada Sadaca to cant Sadac Lorca Acar 1cacanadacanadacam orca Nadasan can Dacan Nadasan to help ;