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Taxi driver and political nutcase David Boyd is running for mayor of Halifax on a platform of transforming the Nova Scotia capital into "Vegas of the East".
"It's high time this city grew up and realized we are port city", he says. Some would see that as "It's high time this city grew up and realized we are cesspool of immorality".
A would-be candidate for mayor of Halifax aims to make Nova Scotia's capital the Sin City of the East – putting the sin in Bedford Basin, the city's inner harbour.
David Boyd is launching his campaign for mayor of Halifax Regional Municipality with a party platform, literally.
Boyd, a Halifax cab driver, computer technician and tow truck driver who has also advocated man-on-android love, is betting on more casinos, strip clubs and Las Vegas-style nightlife in the city.
Halifax already has one waterfront casino, and it's had to reduce hours of operation and make a round of staff cutbacks. The city also has only one adult entertainment bar – located in a strip mall across the harbour in Dartmouth.
But Boyd thinks the city needs at least one more strip club, preferably in Halifax, and more places to play poker.
Mr Boyd has a track record of political failure. He was trounced in each of his three bids for a city council seat and his 2004 campaign for the Conservative Party nomination in Dartmouth was derailed when he advocated changing marriage laws to allow unions between humans and androids.
The mayoral election will be held on 18 October. Two serious candidates have entered the race thus far: incumbent Peter Kelly and City Councillor Sheila Fougere.
h/t: Sobering Thoughts
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Hey Scott,
Off topic, but where are you now, Yukon, Maritimes, or somewhere in between?
Just curious,
John K
sounds like boyd is just jealous of the hub of the maritimes
Hi John, I’m still in Yukon for another 12 days. On the 25th, we fly to Calgary for ten days, then on to Nova Scotia.
arc, And that hub would be what? Don’t tell me it’s Falmouth.
Ah, you’re flying. I thought you might be driving, in which case Edson would only be about 45 minutes out of your way and we might talk you into a visit. Oh well, another time perhaps.
A friend who moved there last year calls it Monkey Town. I do believe parts of Falmouth washed away this week due to the monsoon season that has moved east from Southern Ontario. But Halifax will always be a port town with the best of traditions past…
Most of what I know about Halifax comes from watching the Trailer Park Boys, which paints a picture worthy of a Maritime Vegas.
On a mostly unrelated note, I’ve always wanted to go there, just to have my picture taken in 18th-century costume at the waterfront, so I can be a “Baroquen man on a Halifax pier.”