Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek sits for an interview with CBC News, with one year left before the end of a challenging first term.
Calgarians have fallen out with their mayor. Jyoti Gondek believes they just don't know her yet | CBC News LoadedShe's met with past donors. She's trying to communicate more. But even supporters admit Gondek faces uphill climb to win back public's approval — if she runs again.
Mayor Gondek launched a panel discussion series in mid-October as part of her renewed efforts to improve her communication with the public. The debut had few viewers after a week. "When a centrist like Jyoti is called a socialist and a commie, it's hard thing," said Walcott, one of council's more progressive members.
"If your messaging's not on point, it doesn't matter how good the outcome is," she said. "It's not going to work."Biggs worked on Gondek's mayoral victory with Stephen Carter, the image-making political strategist who advised Nenshi's first campaign and helped make Alison Redford Alberta's first woman premier in 2011.
"If her political instincts were so strong, people wouldn't be running with pitchforks after her," Biggs said. "When you look at the brand construction of Jyoti Gondek, was apparently a fiction because she never lived it afterwards," Carter said. "We are asking each other those things because we have seen the toll it has taken on our families, on our mental health, on our physical health, our teams, and we are all reflecting on the hurdles we have been navigating," said Coun. Kourtney Penner.
Not so for Gondek, with former councillor Jeff Davison and former police commission chair Brian Thiessen already declaring their mayoral bids, and two sitting councillors Her message to the crowd, the source summarized, was: "I'm here. I haven't gone away. I'm not going away. I'm going to continue to do my job as long as I sit in this chair and I'm excited about the future of Calgary."She'll need support from those donors again to mount a credible bid against her rivals.
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