The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Exposing Fake Conservative running for Calgary mayor!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I need to tell you guys about some incredibly dumb drama 0.96

00:00:06.540 coming out of Calgary's mayoral election. Now, if you don't live in Calgary, you may still find 0.88

00:00:12.740 this interesting, because inherently drama can be interesting. But this is the dumbest form of 0.99

00:00:19.260 drama. A Calgary mayoral candidate who is trying to project himself as being conservative tried to 0.99

00:00:25.840 attack his closest conservative opponent, and ended up just highlighting how unfit he is to

00:00:31.960 actually be the standard bearer for conservatism in the city. So I have endorsed Sonia Sharp in this

00:00:39.280 mayoral election. I don't agree with Sonia on everything. I'm more conservative than she is on

00:00:44.520 many issues. But she actually has committed to cutting wasteful spending, putting police officers

00:00:50.240 directly on C-trains and on C-train platforms to cut down on crime, especially retail theft. And

00:00:56.560 there's a few other aspects of her platform I think are quite positive. And also, all these other people

00:01:02.000 saying, I'm going to freeze taxes. Like, well, if you're not going to cut bad spending, you are going

00:01:06.540 to end up raising taxes. And even just freezing the rate isn't good enough, because as house values go

00:01:12.220 up, they can just tax you through the elevated value rather than increasing the rate. But whatever,

00:01:17.960 I just want to get back to this issue. So Jeff Davison has been attacking Sonia Sharp recently.

00:01:23.960 It's not just been him. It's been all of his campaign surrogates, his campaign manager,

00:01:28.580 all these people going after Sonia for not being conservative enough. And their complaints always

00:01:34.720 tend to revolve around a single vote she had. She voted for the climate emergency motion that Mayor

00:01:41.740 Gondek put forward. And by the way, I disagree with Sonia voting for that. Even she regrets having

00:01:47.160 voted for that. But overall, her voting record is quite good. But we have Jeff Davison, who had a

00:01:52.760 garbage voting record when he was on council between 2017 and 2021, trying to cast aspersions

00:01:59.340 against her now on a potential corruption issue that I can tell you doesn't exist. This is one of

00:02:06.760 the stupidest things I've ever seen a mayoral campaign do. Accuse your opponent of having a conflict 1.00

00:02:12.260 of interest that doesn't even make sense that only highlights that in fact, you actually had some

00:02:16.840 fundraising scandals back when you last ran for mayor and got crushed, by the way. So I'm just

00:02:22.900 going to get right into this in a second. But I do just want to plug that, hey, if you live in the

00:02:28.080 city of Calgary, go into the description below or go to the top of the comments and get yourself a

00:02:33.140 Sonia Sharp sign. Because I think we actually do need to be able to muscle out fake conservatives like 0.76

00:02:38.500 Jeff Davison from this race before we get into late September or early October. Jeff cannot win.

00:02:45.460 Sonia can win. So back her and don't split the vote with this guy who came in a distant, distant third

00:02:51.800 last time. And now he's having to run against two people who already beat him in the previous

00:02:55.820 election. But yeah, go check that out. But here is something that Jeff Davison and his campaign

00:03:01.080 posted nine days ago. It says for immediate release, August 18th, 2025, Calgary mayoral

00:03:08.440 candidate Jeff Davison calls out conflict of interest between Calgary taxpayer owned and Max

00:03:13.580 and Mark Henry, party architect of Communities First Municipal Party. Now Communities First is the

00:03:21.160 municipal party slate that right now Sonia Sharp is the mayoral candidate of. But this statement goes on

00:03:28.280 to say, the Jeff Davison mayoral campaign is raising what appears to be a troubling conflict

00:03:33.520 of interest involving NMAX, the Calgary taxpayer owned utility, and Mark Henry, party architect of

00:03:39.180 the Communities First Municipal Political Party. Henry's polling firm Think HQ is currently under

00:03:44.020 contract with NMAX, as confirmed by an NMAX executive to the Davison campaign last week.

00:03:49.700 At the same time, Henry is actively leading a municipal political party that is running a number

00:03:54.660 of council candidates, as well as councillor Sonia Sharp as its mayoral candidate.

00:04:00.240 Quote, this is outrageous conflict of interest, said Jeff Davison. Quote, Mark Henry cannot both

00:04:05.520 profit from a taxpayer owned entity and simultaneously run a political organization that is fielding

00:04:11.280 candidates for mayor and council. This gives the appearance that NMAX is paying Henry to campaign

00:04:16.620 for Sharp and others. How can Calgarians believe in our democratic process? What is he flipping on about?

00:04:24.660 What does that even mean? That Mark Henry, who runs a polling firm, who has contracted work with the

00:04:32.440 public utilities company NMAX, that's somehow a conflict of interest, because he also founded the

00:04:39.040 Communities First Party. What do you think they're paying him under the table? NMAX, a public, like,

00:04:45.000 crown corporation, effectively, is wanting Mark Henry to, like, I don't know, do something for them?

00:04:53.080 What is, how does that even work? What's the, what is even the angle that you're going for here? And he

00:04:58.900 doesn't work for NMAX. He does contracted work for NMAX as someone who owns a polling firm. Or do you

00:05:05.700 think they're only paying his polling firm for a firm as a go-between to try and benefit Mark Henry and

00:05:11.400 have him skew Sonia Sharp in a way that's going to benefit the public utility? It doesn't make any sense.

00:05:16.860 It's like saying someone cannot run for office if they work for any public institution, because maybe

00:05:21.760 they're a front for that public institution. If you run for office as a former cop, are you doing this

00:05:26.800 for the police? And now it's the, like, the police's mafia that's trying to take over counsel?

00:05:32.240 Well, this is incredibly stupid. This is fake drama that is causing real drama between the Davison and 0.99

00:05:40.540 Sharp camp. A little bit later in this video, I want to go over with you the voting record of

00:05:47.740 Jeff Davison, because again, him and his surrogates, who have been pretty nasty to me up to this point,

00:05:53.020 for no reason. Great campaign strategy, guys. Maybe just attack Wyatt, and then he'll like you better.

00:05:58.340 But we're going to get to the voting record, but this is something that Jeff Davison was caught up

00:06:04.340 in back in the 2021 election when he got absolutely destroyed. Complaints levied against

00:06:10.500 Councillor Jeff Davison's fundraiser in Calgary mayoral race. Now, this is an actual big issue

00:06:17.600 that he basically just pretended he had nothing to do with, even though saying that he didn't know this 0.97

00:06:22.700 was going on is probably the stupidest offense, because nobody running for office in Calgary doesn't know 0.88

00:06:27.320 there's a massive fundraiser going on to benefit them. But this article from Global News back during 0.97

00:06:32.640 that 2021 election reads,

00:06:34.900 A mayoral candidate in the upcoming Calgary municipal election is under fire following complaints a golf

00:06:41.020 tournament fundraiser may have violated campaign fundraising rules. The complaint accuses Ward 6

00:06:46.180 councillor Jeff Davison campaign of colluding with a third-party advertiser to raise funds and

00:06:51.500 violating the local authority's election. The tournament to be hosted at the Heritage Point

00:06:55.960 Golf Club on July 29th is being put on by a third-party advertiser called Calgary Tomorrow

00:07:01.680 to raise funds for advertising to support Davison in his bid to be city's next mayor.

00:07:07.760 And they have it right here that it is Jeff Davison's premier fundraiser hosted by this third-party

00:07:14.380 advertiser. And then he ended up just playing dumb about the whole thing, acting like they have 0.64

00:07:20.260 zero. No clue. He had no clue this was going on. Do you think that Jeff Davison didn't know that a 0.97

00:07:25.980 third-party advertiser was specifically fundraising money to make him elected as mayor? Now, third-party

00:07:31.800 advertisers can recommend candidates. But if you're specifically fundraising specifically for this guy,

00:07:37.840 you are no longer just a group that has a bunch of policy concerns, who's saying that we're going to give

00:07:42.700 people letter grades, and we're going to recommend the best people on the issues that we care about.

00:07:46.400 You are now effectively a part of the campaign, because it is about getting this guy elected. It's

00:07:51.440 not a recommendation. It's this guy needs to be elected. And so Davison just played dumb about it.

00:07:56.900 And now he is here to cast aspersions at Sonya Sharp, because Mark Henry on Communities First 0.94

00:08:03.200 owns a polling company and does contracted work for the public utility. And by the way, I've had them

00:08:11.020 call me about questions. It's not like he's doing fake work. He's been doing this for years.

00:08:16.380 You will get questions about how much you spend on utilities and satisfaction with

00:08:21.060 their services and whatnot. I don't understand how this could be a conflict. But the thing is,

00:08:26.820 the Davison campaign doesn't have anything to work with right now. They don't really have a leg to

00:08:30.840 stand on. He's not a popular candidate. Let's even just look at the 2021 mayoral election results. It was

00:08:38.100 bad. He's not a popular guy. He's not somebody who's an experienced winner in municipal campaigns.

00:08:44.620 He won as Ward 6 counselor and then got crushed in mayoral election. Check this out. Gondek got 45.13%

00:08:52.860 of the vote. Jeremy Farkas, 29.91. So Farkas got demolished by Jody Gondek. But Davison got even

00:09:01.220 more demolished, only getting 12.99% of the vote, getting less than half of what Jeremy Farkas got.

00:09:09.200 But now in a new election where Farkas and Gondek are both running and we have Sonia Sharp, who was

00:09:16.440 just objectively better organized than Jeff, we are now going to say that, no, no, guys, we need to give

00:09:22.360 Jeff the second shot. We just need him. He's just so much more conservative than Sonia.

00:09:26.960 Well, Sonia's voted against every single tax hike that's been proposed in front of council. In fact,

00:09:34.500 Jeff has voted for every, voted in favor of every single one of them. Sharp voted against them. He

00:09:39.920 voted in favor of them. So the organization Common Sense Calgary did a council tracker on the three

00:09:46.440 councillors who were running for mayor last election, Davison, Gondek, and Farkas. Now let's just go down

00:09:53.660 here so we can look at some of these votes. So continue the Olympic bid. Vote impact is spend

00:09:59.640 even more on the Olympic bid. So the city was paying money basically to advertise the Olympic

00:10:05.160 bid and to get people to vote yes on it. Now, Jeff Davison and Jody Gondek both voted yes in order

00:10:11.360 to extend funding to this, while Farkas voted no. I will say the reason I will never endorse Farkas 1.00

00:10:17.740 for any office after the last election in Calgary. I voted for him and for mayor. The thing is that

00:10:23.920 he's become so left-wing since then, despite being like a conservative firebrand back in the day,

00:10:29.180 that I just don't trust him. His entire website is just full of like spending initiatives.

00:10:34.000 And by the way, did you know that Jeff Davison's website, up until I pointed it out to his campaign

00:10:38.780 manager, who I didn't even know was his campaign manager at the time, he had a land acknowledgement

00:10:43.140 on his website. I did another video where I talked about him. I can bring up that screenshot later.

00:10:48.640 He had a land acknowledgement on the campaign website. And I'm supposed to believe this is

00:10:53.400 the super conservative guy. I even need to just quickly show you something he posted recently on

00:10:58.440 social media. Now, does this mean anything? No, but I think there's a certain level of incompetence

00:11:04.380 to his campaign. So either his new campaign organizer or his new manager, I don't know,

00:11:10.700 Brett Pierce on the left there. For some reason, this was a winning photo for Jeff Davison to post

00:11:16.140 on his social media to advertise that he is running from air. Him feeding Brett Pierce a cupcake

00:11:21.760 while at some event at the Canada Olympic Park. Yeah, so that was something that happened. I just,

00:11:28.760 that was baffling to me. So I need to bring it up. So another one here on the Common Sense Calgary page.

00:11:34.460 Pike corporate welfare. Vote impact. Increase corporate welfare by $90 million. Now, I assume

00:11:41.140 this is some economic investment plan where the city is going to pay out money in order to attract

00:11:46.200 business or to help grow businesses or whatever. We had Jeff Davison and Gondek both vote for that.

00:11:52.940 The motion was that council approve an additional allocation of $90 million for the long-term funding

00:11:57.860 of the Economic Development Investment Fund for a total of $100 million. Now, I have some history

00:12:05.920 with Calgary Economic Development. I think they should probably be defunded from most of their

00:12:11.040 money. They are entirely useless and throw money at stupid projects. But we had Jeff vote with Gondek, 1.00

00:12:17.860 which you will notice is a pattern over time. We have, this one I actually don't care about as much.

00:12:23.160 We have freeze councils pay. Gondek and Farkas both voted freeze councils pay. Jeff Davison didn't.

00:12:28.760 I actually don't necessarily disagree with Jeff on this one. It's populist-y to say let's not give

00:12:34.440 councillors more pay because those politicians work for us and screw them. It's always a little bit 0.85

00:12:39.440 dicey to say that like, oh no, they don't deserve more money. Councillors don't get paid all that much,

00:12:43.740 honestly. But here's the next one. Vote impact. Council expenses cut 15% for 2019-2022.

00:12:51.920 They all voted for that. That's good. Council should have, like, you know, we should, that's a

00:12:57.380 great cost-saving measure where it's not impacting people's salaries, but you have to operate on a

00:13:01.980 smaller budget. We have this one. Cut pay by 7.5% and freeze pension plans. Another one I don't care

00:13:09.480 about as much. They both voted no and Farkas voted yes. But here's this one. A $290.4 million subsidy

00:13:18.000 for the new arena. We had for the Calgary Flames. Jeff Davison, Gondek, voted in favour of it. Farkas

00:13:24.600 voted against. Find $50 million in savings. Vote impact. Cut $50 million excluding 911 services and

00:13:32.640 transit. The motion says find additional savings of $50 million in all tax-supported business units

00:13:38.380 excluding Calgary Police Service, Calgary Fire Department, 911 service, and public transit.

00:13:43.700 Jeff Davison, the fiscal conservative, apparently, and Gondek, voted against trying to find $50 million

00:13:50.780 in savings. It's just a motion saying that we should attempt to find savings, and they didn't

00:13:54.840 want to do that. Here's another one. Reduce corporate welfare by $50 million. It says the

00:14:00.580 motion is that council redirect $50 million from the Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund into the

00:14:05.840 fiscal stability reserve. Davison and Gondek voted against that. Let's not try and save money for a

00:14:12.480 rainy day. Screw that. Here's another one. Cut PR and comm spending. The motion is that council

00:14:19.080 direct administration to reduce public and employee engagement and communications by $1.2 million to

00:14:24.920 2014 levels. Basically, that the communications department that doesn't actually add that much

00:14:29.580 value to the city should have its funding reduced so that, you know, we can spend it on more useful

00:14:34.620 things. And Gondek and Davison voted against that. Reduce art spending by $5 million. Jeff Davison

00:14:44.400 cannot find a reason to vote against $5 million in bad, ugly art spending. You know, all of the

00:14:51.440 Beaufort Towers and that stupid famous blue ring? Yeah, let's have less of that and take that $5 million 0.99

00:14:57.740 and maybe spend on public safety. Maybe more transit. Maybe we can just give people back a couple bucks

00:15:02.400 every year. Maybe we can have better snow removal services. But no, Gondek and Davison voted against

00:15:08.760 actually finding saving that money. And then we have a 7.5% residential tax increase. We have Jeff

00:15:17.800 Davison and Gondek voted in favor of the tax increase. And basically, it was to trying to shift

00:15:23.120 some of the tax burden away from companies because we have what is a commercial taxes are extremely high

00:15:31.080 in Calgary. But I agree with Farkas voting no on this because while, yes, commercial shouldn't be

00:15:36.420 having to lug as much of a burden, the problem is, is that we should be cutting taxes in general. We should

00:15:42.300 be cutting wasteful spending so everyone has to pay less taxes. But they voted in favor of increasing

00:15:47.520 taxes, but they've been voting out against every single attempt to actually have fiscal responsibility.

00:15:53.980 This is the green line. And we had Davison and Gondek vote in favor of continuing their green line

00:16:00.360 spending. And I oppose the green line. It's going to be extremely expensive. We are fundamentally a

00:16:06.160 driving city. And right now with the crime rates, I don't want another train heading south bringing

00:16:10.640 more effectively crime down a publicly funded transit thoroughfare. Okay, we'll keep going. And

00:16:17.600 Anya Sharp, I believe, is against it too. Basically, vote impact cap payouts for defeated councillors.

00:16:24.800 And right now it says basically report C-2020-1081 be amended by deleting the words if a member of

00:16:34.240 council leaves voluntarily, i.e. chooses not to stand for re-election, retires, resigns. So you don't get

00:16:39.420 like a big payout for having basically not run for office. That if you don't run for office again,

00:16:46.920 you get some like retirement bonus or something like that. And Jeff Davison and Gondek did not want

00:16:52.080 that. And they want councillors to keep getting money for quitting their jobs. Defund the police.

00:16:57.700 Vote impact. $20 million cut from the police budget. The motion was council to consider the allocation of

00:17:04.180 up to $10 million in 2021 and $10 million in 2022 in base budget to the implementation of this

00:17:11.240 framework. Jeff Davison and Gondek voted to defund the police. Farkas did not. Although these days,

00:17:18.260 I wouldn't be shocked if Farkas would have the new that today's Farkas, if he was back voting back 0.99

00:17:23.140 then would have voted in favour of reducing the police budget. I've had people like former

00:17:28.880 councillor Ward Southern try and gaslight me on the reason that Davison voted for that. Oh, no,

00:17:34.360 the police actually told him to defund them. Oh, they actually told them to just defund them,

00:17:39.100 but move it over to basically a community support fund or something that they had. It's like,

00:17:43.380 well, then why did Joe Magliocca and Sean Chu and others? Urquhart, all those other Calgary

00:17:49.860 councillors, there's like five of them who voted against this because they had their heads screwed

00:17:53.320 on straight. But apparently Jeff and Ward Sutherland had a super good reason for why actually

00:17:58.320 defunding the police was the pro-police thing to do. I don't trust these people. They are running

00:18:03.540 a bad campaign and that's why they are lashing out. But in the future, I will be putting up all my

00:18:09.660 endorsements for all the different ward positions, for all the councillors, for all the school board

00:18:14.020 trustees. And of course, I already have Sonia Sharp for mayor that I'm endorsing. Again, go get a lawn 1.00

00:18:18.620 sign if you want. And in other municipalities, I will also be endorsing people. Medicine Hat,

00:18:23.620 Drew Barnes, the former MLA, is a great mayoral choice. Edmonton, you're going to have to bite the

00:18:28.680 bullet a little bit in Edmonton and probably vote for Raheem Jaffer. And then I'll probably find some

00:18:33.080 other guys in places like Red Deer and Airdrie that might be good as well. But with that being said,

00:18:38.600 that's probably it for this video. I, again, I've just been so annoyed by all of the purity testing

00:18:45.440 of Sonia Sharp. At the same time, Jeff Davison couldn't even stand up to his own measuring stick

00:18:51.640 that his campaign is using to attack Sonia. And I don't even like all the things that Community First

00:18:57.060 does. I didn't agree with them making Alison McSweeney their Ward 9 candidate. She used to be 1.00

00:19:02.460 very NDP-ish. She seems like she still is. Their campaign's logic is that it's a more

00:19:07.920 lefty riding or more lefty part of the city, so they put a more lefty candidate in.

00:19:12.540 Okay, whatever. She's probably not going to win anyways. And I just want communities first

00:19:16.440 to get Sonia Sharp across the finish line and a lot of their good councillors in,

00:19:20.380 and that's all we need. So, like, it's not really that big a deal. Again, in my ward,

00:19:24.800 Ward 6, Jeff's former ward, I've endorsed Joanne Burse. In Ward 9, I'll probably recommend voting

00:19:30.300 for Gargar. He's a good guy, and he's also been taking it on the chin in very dishonest ways.

00:19:35.080 Because municipal politics, and I say this as a very ideological conservative,

00:19:39.600 municipal politics is genuinely less ideological. You're going to get more people who you don't

00:19:44.260 agree with on everything, but they will do these three or four things you really need them to do.

00:19:48.300 That's what you should be voting for. The person who can win who's going to get actually substantial

00:19:52.800 progress done. So far, Davidson's campaign is just like platitudes that he wants fiscal efficiency.

00:19:59.460 He wants more cops or more security. It's like, okay, well, you didn't really run on that last

00:20:05.840 time, so I don't know what you're talking about. It seems like you're just trying to adjust yourself

00:20:09.420 in order to win this one, since you got so hammered in the last one. But anyways, that's it for me

00:20:15.700 today, guys. This was a bit of a rant, but hopefully you didn't mind the update on what's going on in that

00:20:20.840 crazy city of Calgary that I live in. But with that being said, I will see you guys all later.

00:20:27.040 Thank you.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 27, 2025

Exposing Fake Conservative running for Calgary mayor!

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