Matt_mcl, have you gotten any pre-election poll results or anything? Making speeches? What’s happening up in Verdun-Ste. Whatever? C’mon, give with the news!
I want to know what happened too!
Oh, …wow. [flattered]
The fact is I’m really busy and stressed out. I’ve been giving a series of campaign speeches, but nobody came to the last one, which is quite a bummer. Anyway, I’m going to have a very limited amount of time to press flesh today since Ed Broadbent (former leader of the NDP) and Alexa McDonough (current leader of the NDP) are both going to be making appearences today and it’s incumbent on me to be at both.
I’m still waiting for the central Quebec office to get its shit together and make me up the signs and pamphlets it promised me and also to get me the equity candidate cheque it was supposed to have a week ago today.
Other things are going interestingly, though. So far I’ve been in three newspapers (Hour, Senior Times, and Messager Verdun), and have been interviewed by the Gazette, the (bad) major English-language daily in town. I also participated in a panel of young candidates that CBC TV hosted; a lot of people said they saw it and that I did a lot better than my opponents. (It was an interesting panel: clean-shaven straight boy with a tie and no glasses, clean-shaven straight boy with a tie and no glasses, clean-shaven straight boy with a tie and no glasses, bearded bespectacled fag without a tie, and clean-shaven straight boy with a tie and no glasses. It’s like how Alexa wore a bright orange blazer to the leader’s debate. NDPers always look different.) I’m also going to be participating in a debate at Brebeuf college on Wednesday, and at a candidate’s debate in my riding sometime next week (date to be set).
In other news, the candidate in the riding next to me, Dave Bernans, is doing this really cool publicity stunt - camping out in front of Paul Martin’s riding office (Paul Martin is the federal Minister of Finance and the Liberal candidate in the riding adjacent - suffice it to say he’s not finding time in his busy schedule to actually campaign for MP, but will probably be elected anyway!) Dave says he’s not going to move until he gets an all-candidates’ debate in his riding.
And in national news, a lot of people are saying that Alexa acquitted herself quite well at the national Leaders’ Debate, especially the English one last Thursday. She didn’t have a very forceful debating style, but she spent more time on the issues than anyone else. And although everyone was attacking everyone else’s record in office, nobody could attack hers, mainly because the NDP has actually spent its time between elections dealing with what everyone else has been promising, in the way of social programs [/editorial].