A couple weeks ago, I wrote this:

Anyone who reads this web site at all knows where I stand. But I figured I would tip my hat to my adversaries in what has been a pretty good race.

Will I be involved in the OLP, going forward? Beyond the convention, no. No way. I am out, full stop.

It’s time for others to step up. I have other plans, and they don’t include the OLP war room or campaign, no matter who wins.

There’s a lot of smart folks, as noted above, to run the coming campaign. They’ll do just fine without old farts like me around.

Good luck to them.

I meant that then, and I mean it now. I’m out. Ten years with an amazing guy like Dalton McGuinty is a great run.

The online nobodies (like this loser, who has been tweeting and commenting under different names all night, or this one, who remains a jerk) have been having a field day tonight about my involvement. Keep at it, losers: neither of you has ever had the guts to step up in a campaign. Nor will you. (You’re cowards.)

I don’t regret supporting Sandra Pupatello for one solitary moment. I supported her because she was (and is!) an amazing, passionate, talented woman, and it was such a privilege to volunteer for her.

Katheleen Wynne, as I’ve noted elsewhere, is a also terrific person, and she obviously ran an amazing campaign. I wish her the very best.

But, as noted a couple weeks back, I won’t be back in the campaign or the war room. It’s time for new blood, new ideas, new faces.

Now, I need a beer.

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In line to vote now. Here we go!

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They don’t call us backroomers for nothin’.

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This is about as close as I’m getting to McGuinty tonight, I think!

Those chairs? They’re for Oprah. She’s supporting Pupatello, too.

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Rob Ford wins his appeal, so my earlier prediction was wrong.

But the Divisional Court is wrong, too.

By accepting the notion that a politician can set up a private fundraising vehicle – and direct lobbyists to donate to it, and control how it spends money – the judges have created the opening the Right wing have been lusting after for years: US-style PACs to get around spending limits. Political slush funds, now cheerfully sanctioned by the Divisional Court.

If the Right does it (and they will), then we progressives will have no choice but to do likewise. PACs will be everywhere.

The significance of today’s decision isn’t simply that a bumbling boor remains in office. Its broader significance is that one of the rules of democracy has been changed.

And in a way that none of us want.

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My take?

Rob Ford’s chances are bad. Sandra Pupatello’s are good.

What’s yours?

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…on CBC Radio just now.

• “@sandrapupatello has been in economic portfolios and has a great heart, and a great sense of compassion.”
• “I share your high view of @sandrapupatello.”
• “There’s no way the next Premier wins by being obsequious.” (Peterson dismissing criticism of feisty @sandrapupatello)

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Paulo Senra and I were there, too.  Our dedication is evidenced by the fact that it is ONE MILLION BELOW ZERO here in Tee Dot.

Here’s Paulo’s pic.  It’s cool (literally).

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