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Carra4Ward9 on the Twitter Trail

9/10/2013

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Here's the (rather slow in coming) next installment of "Campaign Artist in Residence" comics for Councillor Gian-Carlo Carra, who's running for re-election in Calgary's Ward 9. I was thinking it would be fun to pepper this blog post with all sorts of links and references to the things that are mentioned within, but in the interests of a good night's sleep I think I'll just leave it as is. It's pretty self-explanatory, and if you follow Gian-Carlo on Twitter, you've probably seen this all before anyway!

But if you don't use Twitter, well, now you can get a taste of how much fun it is to kind of legitimately eavesdrop on what someone's doing, by following their messages and conversations.

I guess I should mention that these excerpts from Gian-Carlo's Twitter feed are just highlights from a longer list of posts - by no means the whole story of what he's been up to! To find out more about that, check out his actual Twitter page.

And I should mention one other thing. I just finished scanning all these drawings, and now I see that Gian-Carlo has JUST CHANGED HIS TWITTER ICON! Well, this comic strip is now a historical document, I guess. And it's all for the best... the new one (which you can see above) is great!

Hope this strip provides a glimpse of how this City Councillor has been interacting with real live Calgarians over the past couple of weeks!

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Apologies... I think that should have been "almost $4500 was raised..." - for Brown Bagging For Calgary Kids and the Calgary Foundation Flood Recovery Fund! To find out more about Polibowl (and see pictures of the participants decked out in their campaign/bowling gear), take a look at CalgaryRants.com.
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phil d
9/9/2013 06:29:36 pm

Disc golf...wow, I forgot how much I loved doing that on vacation in South Carolina as a kid. I was Frisbee obsessed. Carra sounds amazing, Inspired by the community there no doubt!

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sam hester link
9/10/2013 02:42:33 am

As a kid?? I thought this was some kind of new trend. Well, my ignorance of all things sport-related is renowned. I'm like that sissy villain from "A Room With A View:" "Some chaps are no good for anything but books. I plead guilty to being such a chap."

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