St. Paul's the 2nd

Good work Stuart. I am especially pleased with what you said about the HST. In fact, you outdid the provincial leader, whose quote was inaccurate or at least very inarticulate.

If you don't run federally, please consider running municipally. Your idealistic enthusiasm is sorely lacking in this country.

Yes, it’s Julian Heller who will carry the Orange and Green banner in this election, and it will be his third attempt. Mr. Heller has quite the background too that will match up well with the rest of the field. He is a lawyer by profession who is a graduate of Princeton University (B.A.) and McGill University Law School (B.C.L, LL.B). He’s a past chair of the Constitutional and Civil Liberties Section of the Canadian Bar Association – Ontario, along with many other involvements in the legal profession and as an advocate for public education. In his two previous runs in St. Paul’s he did get a solid 15% and 16%, and with what is going on with the Liberals right now, there is more than a bit of potential for growth. Why would I say that? Well, on top of there being 150 people at a New Democrat nomination meeting, which is the most I’ve ever heard of, there is this little nugget that The Star had in their piece tonight:

MPP Peter Kormos (Welland) almost single-handedly managed to raise $20,000 from the enthusiastic crowd for the by-election effort.

For the New Democrats, raising $20,000 like that at a single meeting is quite impressive and it looks like the New Democrats will be have the funds to run a full out campaign in St. Paul’s, something that they typically just would not be able to do. As I have said before, by-elections are a different beast and anything can and seems to happen in them. But from the sounds of it the New Democrats are off to a flying start in St. Paul’s...

This is a $7 billion tax CUT for business.

And a $9 billion tax HIKE for consumers.

Polunatic2 wrote:

I believe they already have an office on Eglinton somewhere and that lawn signs will be ready tomorrow. 

 

I noticed what appeared to be the office on, I think, the Eglinton Theatre block--across the street from St. Paul's.  (I don't know if that technicality's improper, though critics might pick on it.)

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across the street from St. Paul's.  (I don't know if that technicality's improper, though critics might pick on it.)

I doubt that will be a problem. I doubt the Elections Act has much to say about office locations (although I may be wrong) or that anyone will make hay out of it. It would look pretty petty. 

I think people are making a far bigger deal of it on babble than the voters of St. Paul's will.  It's not as if you enter a different world when you cross Eglinton Ave.!