Douglass Finlay

General

• Co-founder of the multi-billion-leck company Finlay-McLennan
  • Partner: Roger McLennan

• Announced, on 20-OCT-05, he was going to run for the Perplex City Council Leader position.
• Will be running against Nathan Earlywine, and incumbent Camryn Scott
• His chief platform is for strong, open leadership, unlike that of such people as Sente Kiteway.

• Statements regarding the competition:
  • Camryn Scott: "It has sadly become clear to everyone that she should step down."
  • Nathan Earlywine: "[He] is a great man, yet he sees our city the way it was, not as the shining beacon of significance and innovation it could be."

• 05?-JUN-06 - His campaign was beseiged when an anonymous stack of reports and documents implicated his connection to a string of Watergate-ish snoopish and infiltrating schemes
  • This specifically involves wire-tapping the homes of major candidates, including that of Camryn Scott.
  • Campaign manager Anton Kaneda decried the entire affair as "complete fabrication, probably concocted by the same members of the old guard who are now crying victim"
  • For a week or more, accusations and denials flew about.
  • Dispite all this, Finlay has not dropped out of the campaign.
  • Finlay's approval ratings have been plummeting ever since the controversial documents were revealed. His all-time high approval polled at 63%, but that number has fallen to 23%.

• 05-JUL-06 - As Finlay's ratings sank lower and lower, his campaign manager, Anton Kaneda, opted to resign from his position.
  • Kaneda may have been pressing Finlay to drop out of the race, but Finlay appears to stand firm.

• 17-JUL-06 - First of many City Council Electoral Debates
  • Earlywine was widely regarded as coming out on top of the competition.
  • Finlay, who has a reputation for grandstanding at public speaking engagements, was unusually subdued for this debate, presumably because his campaign is under police investigation for several possible violations of election and privacy laws.
  • He covered his basic positions almost by rote, differing little in wording from previous campaign speeches, and did not enter into the back-and-forth between the other candidates.

• 17-AUG-06 - Finlay officially bows out of the election, still asserting his innocence.
  • His vacant seat on the Council is expected to be filled by Natasha Heme.

References

• article, 20-OCT-05 "Finlay Quits Consumer Giant in Run for Office" (link)
• article, 05-JUN-06 "Scandal Hammers Finlay's Campaign" (link)
• more headlines, 08-JUN-06 "Finlay Denials Continue"
• more headlines, 12-JUN-06 "Council Blasts Finlay"
• more headlines, 19-JUN-06 "Finlay Camp Goes Quiet"
• more headlines, 22-JUN-06 "Earlywine Roasts Finlay"
• article, 06-JUL-06 "Finlay Campaign Manager Resigns" (link)
• article, 20-JUL-06 "Earlywine Presses Advantage in Debate" (link)
• article, 17-AUG-06 "Finlay Abandons Race Amid Spying Rumours" (link)
• article, 25-AUG-06 "Finlay Arrested, Charged" (link)