Return To Municipal Politics
Mark announced in June 2009 that he would not seek re-election in the next federal election, which was held on May 2, 2011. He subsequently announced on August 16, 2010 that he would step down as an MP on September 15 to campaign for another term as mayor of Dauphin. However, he lost narrowly to Eric Irwin.
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Famous quotes containing the words return to, return, municipal and/or politics:
“Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We wished our two souls
might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
—Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)
“... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)