The majority of Calgarians in a Mainstreet Research poll conducted exclusively for the Western Standard poll say Mayor Naheed Nenshi should fire two staffers who left the province for Hawaii against COVID-19 travel recommendations..Nenshi’s chief of staff, Devery Corbin, and another office administrator flew out of the province to Hawaii even though the province is in a full pandemic lockdown and health recommendations urge against non-essential travel. Nenshi himself has been an outspoken advocate of lockdowns and threatened the province with unilateral actions if it didn’t act.. POLL: Calgarians want Nenshi to fire Snowbird Scandal staffersDevery Corbin .Neither of Nenshi’s staffes will face sanctions, Nenshi said earlier this month..In a Mainstreet Research poll January 25-25, of 1,603 Calgarians asked, 29 per cent said Nenshi should have fired the pair..A substantial 20 per cent said Nenshi himself and his staffers should all resign..A total of 26 per cent said Nenshi’s apology was good enough and the matter should be closed..Ten per cent said Nenshi and his staff did nothing wrong and 15 per cent said they didn’t know or weren’t sure..“After seeing how voters reacted to the way Jason Kenney responded to MLAs and staff travel during the holidays, we expected to see similar results for how the Mayor handled the revelation that two of his staff travelled to Hawaii as well,” said Mainstreet President and CEO Quito Maggi..“Although 2 in 10 [20 per cent] say he and the staff should resign, and another almost 3 in 10 [29 per cent] say he should fire the staff, a combined near majority, a quarter (26 per cent) of Calgarians told us his apology was enough.”.“While this should be concerning to the Mayor with a potential re-election campaign ahead, taking responsibility quickly appears to have not made the damage as severe as other cases.”.“Among his supporters however, the fact that two per cent want him to resign, and another 27 per cent want him to fire the staff, may prove a challenge under the spotlight of an election.”. Screen-Shot-2021-01-29-at-10.45.29-AMMainstreet poll for The Western Standard. All rights reserved. .Maggi said the Nenshi Snowbird Scandal wasn’t as bad as the UCP Snowbird Scandal because there weren’t as many cases..Mayor Nenshi has thus far declined to respond to the Western Standard request for comment..Councillor George Chahal slammed Nenshi for not coming clean earlier..In an open letter, Ward 5 ‘s Chahal said it’s ludicrous the office kept a lid on the travel until earlier this month, when for about a week before, a scandal over UCP snowbirds had riveted the province..A few days later Councillor Jeromy Farkas announced that one of his staff had travelled outside the country. He docked the wages of that staffer..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
