Mike Savage Should Run For Mayor

With his recent loss of the Federal Election, former Liberal Member of Parliament,(we won't hold that against him, just chaulk it up to the foibles of youth) Michael Savage is being touted as the next mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Well now that just might be A-OK. First of all, it's high time we bid a not so fond farewell to the Honorable Mayor Peter Kelly and got someone who might be able to do something to put Halifax back on the map. Right now Michael is just another out of work guy, but come a municipal election, I think he might have a pretty decent chance to get the top job running the province's largest municipality.

And even if he can't put Halifax back on the map,
maybe Mike Savage will make it less embarrassing to those of us living here. I have to admit, I am impressed with Mike Savage. I was particulary impressed by his handshake and congratulatory in-person message to NDP'r Robert Chisholm who had just won the seat they both had been campaigning for.....

I'm pretty sure Mayor Kelly is yesterday's news as far as being Mayor is concerned. In my opinion he sealed his fate when he let his staff take the fall on the concert fiasco, and didn't do the honorable thing, which was to resign.

At the time he said something about letting the voters decide, well, that was his chance. He should have resigned, and if he wanted us to decide, ran again. That way we could have decided then and there.

No matter, he didn't. However I think that come the next election, Mayor Kelly might find that the voters will remember, perhaps more than he might like us to remember.

He might also find himself up against a worthy political opponent, someone who will make him shiver at the thought of running against him.

Hopefully a guy by the name of Mike Savage....