Parkdale-High Park By-election
So today is the day when we find out if the Liberal smear machine was effective. Here's the Elections Ontario page, which states they'll have live results at 8 pm (guessing thats EST (or is it EDT?)). The G&M's Karen Howlett has a story today about the race along with this CBC article from yesterday. To hear both Sylvia Watson and Dalton McGuinty dismiss this nasty attack on another candidate makes on wonder about the fortunes of the Ontario Liberals. Could they be growing a little to close to the habits of their federal counterparts? When will politicians realize that this stuff disgusts the voting public?
And now, a few blogs with posts on the by-election:
James Bow has a great post on the attacks against Cheri DiNovo.
J Kelly at On the Fence has yet another (h/t James Bow)
Another from Steve at Nice Comfy Fur.
Mark at Ottawa Watch has a post criticizing Kinsella's role in this whole affair.
BigCityLib has one on Kinsella and another regarding McGuinty's role.
Canadian Cerberus has a post on another of her articles. (Here's the full article)
Toronto Mike has a great post on the Homolka sermon (including the sermon in its entirety).
Finally Lobster Thermidor has a great post on how this reflects on Sylvia Watson.
One notices, that after starting this whole thing with Cerberus and Kinsella, Jason Cherniak has been conspicously absent in recent days on this topic.
Well, I guess all we can do now is wait and see what the voters of Parkdale-High Park decide.
UPDATE:And now, a few blogs with posts on the by-election:
James Bow has a great post on the attacks against Cheri DiNovo.
J Kelly at On the Fence has yet another (h/t James Bow)
Another from Steve at Nice Comfy Fur.
Mark at Ottawa Watch has a post criticizing Kinsella's role in this whole affair.
BigCityLib has one on Kinsella and another regarding McGuinty's role.
Canadian Cerberus has a post on another of her articles. (Here's the full article)
Toronto Mike has a great post on the Homolka sermon (including the sermon in its entirety).
Finally Lobster Thermidor has a great post on how this reflects on Sylvia Watson.
One notices, that after starting this whole thing with Cerberus and Kinsella, Jason Cherniak has been conspicously absent in recent days on this topic.
Well, I guess all we can do now is wait and see what the voters of Parkdale-High Park decide.
Damn, knew I forgot someone. Greg at democraticSPACE has an interesting prediction on the results.
UPDATE:
Alright, just got home and checked the Elections Ontario page. Unoffically, Cheri DiNovo has won the riding with 41% of the vote (33% for Watson (Lib) and 17% for Hutcheon (Con)).
Technorati Tags: Cheri DiNovo, NDP, Liberals, Parkdale, High Park
posted by Daz at 11:11 a.m.
3 Comments:
It was a close one, but there was a real feeling in the air that DiNovo would win.
As I keep posting but feel obliged to say, I do NOT support the Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton, and I personally strongly dislike Jack Layton, but due to the really awful smear campaign against DiNovo, I volunteered for her as a scrutineer.
People were repelled by the smear campaign - it didn't work. And the thing is, the dirty pool tacticians behind it all never - not one - ever mentioned any of the several very good things that Watson has done for the Ward.
Watson showed poor integrity by never speaking out against the attacks. The PC candidate David Hutcheon did.
DeJong got over 6% of the vote for the Green Party, which was nice to see.
The Liberal staffers at the polling station I worked were nice, but all of them but two seemed unhappy to be there. (Heavy on the "seemed", I'm not a mind-reader)
I wrote McGuinty and told him that I was going to volunteer for DiNovo on account of his smear campaign, and would vote for John Tory next time around for the same reason.
Well, that's all, folks.
Smear didn't work. Seems you can't count on anything these days.
Oh, almost forgot. Speaking of smear, this quote about Bob Clarke's granny is a gem. Go 'Nucks!
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