babble is rabble.ca's discussion board but it's much more than that: it's an online community for folks who just won't shut up. It's a place to tell each other — and the world — what's up with our work and campaigns.
Support rabble | Advertise with us | Contact our staff | About rabble | Log-in or Register for a new account | Corrections | Privacy policy | Newsfeeds | Mailing lists
rabble: Features | Columnists | In Cahoots | Blogs | Books | Photos | What's Up | Polls
babble: Forum Topics | Active Topics
The rpn: About the RPN | Become a podcaster
rabbleTV: Program Guide | Features | Indie Inside | Best of the net
Copyright © 2001-2013 the authors
Syndicate
Hudak is an attack dog, not a leader. He will come off as way too negative for the demographics the Cons need to appeal to in order to move to the other side of the Leg. It would take a lot of sweaters to make Hudak seem likable and Ontarians just don't pay that much attention to provincial politics to be able to do it. It would only take one sarcastic remark at the wrong time to sink the boat.
I've always thought it strange, in a good way, how different provincail politics are viewed in other provinces other than Ontario. Watching local news you get some sort of provincial story most nights in other places, but in Ontario we hardly ever get a story unless it is something like the flag stuff this week. Ontarians are not well served by our media outlets.
In which case, his demerits stand as something of a polar opposite to John Tory's. Still, he strikes me as having an odd, "contemporary" credibility as a party leader, as opposed to a government leader--maybe Hudak is more of a necessary midway stage t/w a future Tory premier, than a future Tory premier in his own right.
Now, if Hudak underpolls Horwath, then the Tories are in trouble.
One other name I've seen tossed around is John Yakabuski--any observations on him?
From what little I know, I can picture him as a Stelmach-ian dark horse coming up the middle...
PC Leader, or Vaughan Mayor?
So says the Toronto Star:
The recent history of clownish corruption and disfunction in Vaughan municipal politics is without parallel in the province.
Methinks Il Douche would be very comfortable wearing the crown of such a kingdumb.
Fantino's term as OPP Commissioner expires this October. It was supposed to end in March 2008 but the Liberals gave him an extension - I suspect because they didn't want to risk him running in the provincial election or face any backlash in Woodbridge for letting him go.
With all the controversy he's raised from the Shawn Brant trial blowing up in his face to his current troubles with a formal inquiry into disciplinary action he meted out against two OPP officers and his failed attempt to remove the adjudicator (who he hand picked in the first place) for bias against Fantino I don't think he has any chance of another extenstion. This is especially the case as the two men responsible for his becoming OPP Commissioner, Greg Sorbara and Monte Kwinter, are now backbenchers.
Another 22% Generalissimo in Puerto Toronto?
ditto