The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 28, 2025


Political grifter need to be called out. #cdnpoli #calgary

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Wyatt Claypool
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Jeff Davison Sonia Sharp Jody Gondek Brian Thiessen Jeremy Farkas Mandy Ball
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2 minutes

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180.49

Word count

539

Sentence count

18

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2

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In the aftermath of me putting out a video on Jeff Davison's campaign to become Calgary's next mayor, I was attacked by a pro-Davison shill, Mandy Ball, who tried to get me to drop Sonia Sharp as the next mayor of Calgary.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, so yesterday I made a video on Jeff Davison's campaign to become Calgary mayor.
00:00:07.700 I critiqued his very liberal voting record back when he was a councillor between 2017
00:00:12.920 and 2021, and went after the very petty tactics that they've used to try and rip down their
00:00:20.060 much more conservative opponent, Sonia Sharp.
00:00:22.840 They pretend that she's actually a liberal because she has a couple of bad votes, which 0.98
00:00:26.560 I can take issue with, but compared to his actual record, it pales in comparison to his
00:00:32.540 consistent voting with Jody Gondek back in the day, Calgary's current terrible mayor,
00:00:38.060 but back then was a councillor with Jeff Davison.
00:00:41.240 Now, in the aftermath of me putting out this video, and of course I like Sonia Sharp and
00:00:45.640 I promote her, I am not paid by her, I just think that she is the best and most viable
00:00:50.040 candidate that we have for the office of mayor in this election, that in the aftermath of
00:00:55.280 it, we had a Jeff Davison shill, this guy named Mandy Ball, attack me, thinking that somehow 0.99
00:01:02.680 he was going to mock me into submission, and now I'm going to drop Sonia and join Jeff.
00:01:09.220 Now, this is someone who even approached me over email, seemingly trying to get me on board
00:01:15.280 with Jeff, whether it was trying to move me into a position where they'll pay me to promote
00:01:19.780 him.
00:01:20.140 That never got brought up, but it was very strange, this influencer wanting to sit down
00:01:24.760 for coffee with me and discuss why I should drop Sonia and join Jeff and why he's such a fantastic
00:01:30.200 guy, this person who doesn't know anything about politics and know anything about Jeff
00:01:34.340 Davison's policies compared to Sonia's.
00:01:36.800 But in the aftermath of all this happening, me being attacked and mocked, I ended up looking
00:01:41.900 more into the guy, and it makes me want to make an entire video on this case study of
00:01:47.220 somebody who just thinks that simply sounding off about politics makes them credible or worth
00:01:54.480 listening to at all.
00:01:55.860 The problem in the media space and politics is people, if they have a camera, will turn
00:02:00.660 it on and just start talking as if they have authority.
00:02:03.900 This person is just openly slandering Sonia Sharp in such a way where they could be destroyed
00:02:09.660 in a court of law within a few minutes.
00:02:13.400 You can't go out there and say that she was taking a $20 million, like getting $20 million
00:02:19.460 from NMAX, Calgary's public utilities company.
00:02:23.860 That's not only false, it doesn't even make sense if you know Canadian politics and how
00:02:28.560 much $20 million is in Canadian politics.
00:02:31.400 That's insane.
00:02:32.640 He's saying that, oh, she's actually secretly backed by the NDP and the Liberals.
00:02:35.800 The NDP and the Liberals aren't backing the two progressive candidates, Jody Gondek and
00:02:41.300 Brian Thiessen, or Jeremy Farkas, he's also extremely liberal these days.
00:02:44.960 He went from actually being quite a good conservative to terrible.
00:02:47.500 But I want to make a video on this because this got under my skin in a way that a lot of
00:02:51.980 other stuff usually doesn't.
00:02:53.440 I hate liars who pretend to be standing on principle. 0.76
00:02:57.840 So, look out. 0.98