I should be sleeping more, but I made the mistake of reading some the articles in the paper containing quotes from people pretending to know what happened in the Ontario Liberal campaign, and pretending that they were big-deal strategists and all that.

Here’s what you should know:

1. The people quoted are making it up. Most of them never set foot in HQ once – not once. Two of them were leakers to the Tories.

2. They are trying to get their names in the paper for business, or glory, or both. They deserve neither.

3. If they keep this up, they will be very sorry.

4. Along with the leader, caucus and candidates, here’s the names of the folks who turned around a 20-point deficit: Don Guy. Laura Miller. Dave Gene. Johnny Z. Jane Almeida. Chris Morley. Brendan McGuinty. Charlie Angelakos. Alicia Johnston. John Brodhead. Brian Clow. Jorge Gomez. Fahim Kaderdina. Jamison Steeve. Lloyd Rang. Sean O’Connor. Gordon Ashworth. Bob Lopinski. Aaron Lazarus. Greg Sorbara. Alex Johnston. And the War Room, and the Policy Shop, and Tour, and Media Monitoring, and many, many others – too many to name.

Not the names you are reading in the paper.

Got it? Okay. Sorry, but there’s only so much bullshit I can take.

Now, back to sleep.

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Media summary: Red short leash, blue blew big lead, orange she’s no Jack Layton.

Now go back to your families and happy Thanksgiving.

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It means a lot.

For us Liberals, it means GOTV, GOTV, GOTV. Forward, together.

I’m taking the kids to school for the first time this year, I’m voting, and then I’m driving to Ottawa for what may be history.

GOTV!

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Krista admonishes me with her pen. I am suitably admonished.

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You have to hear this to believe it.

This morning on CJBK radio, PC London-area star candidate Cheryl Miller was asked if her message was getting out at the door.  Here’s a transcript of what transpired:

Reporter: Cheryl, we’ve got a minute left here, is there anything that you want to share with our listeners, especially to people in the riding? Tomorrow is election day – are they getting your message out there? Are they voting for the Leader?  Are they voting for you?  Is there anything more you want to say?

Cheryl Miller: That’s kind of interesting, I knock on doors and people say, ‘I like you – but I don’t like your Leader’, and that’s really been difficult for me.

I’ll bet.

In case you want to hear for yourself, you can listen to Cheryl here.

I wonder if Tea Party Tim’s going to get asked about this today?

 

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“Liberals best choice for Ontario’s future”

TORONTO, Oct. 5, 2011 /CNW/ – Ontarians face a choice tomorrow, and only the Ontario Liberal Party will bring a strong team, an experienced leader, and a serious plan to grow the economy, create jobs, and protect our schools and public healthcare:

• “Mr. McGuinty sees himself as the education premier, with some justification. He has made good, incremental changes to education, improving standards, with results that will enhance competitiveness and productivity for Ontario.”
  • Globe and Mail, October 3, 2011
• “As a country, as a province, as a community, we have a long way to go to realize our economic potential, but we’re on the right track. As we’ve already said, a Liberal government is best for our region. Add to that a majority.”
  • Windsor Star, October 5, 2011
• “Under the Liberals, more hospitals have been built…more doctors and nurses have been hired, emergency wait times are shorter and more surgeries…are being performed. Ontario has become a leading jurisdiction worldwide for the early detection and treatment of cancer, school marks are improving, there has been more investment in electrical power generation…The Liberals have delivered…and they’re best positioned to deliver in the future.”
  • Sudbury Star, October 5, 2010
• “McGuinty and the Liberals are the best choice for the next four years. Their record is a strong one and they are the only party with policies that try to come to grips with the global issues we face.”
  • Toronto Star, September 30, 2011
• “…Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals offer the best bet for Ontario’s future… Moreover, we believe they are the most capable of preparing us for the economic hurricane blowing our way…we believe the Liberals bring the brightest hope.”
  • Waterloo Record, September 30, 2011
• “We believe that the Liberals are in the best position to help us retain the values that make Ontario one of the best places on earth to live.”
  • Barrie Advance, September 30, 2011
• “All in all, the Liberals have done a credible job managing the province through a tumultuous period…the Liberals are the best option to govern Ontario for the next four years.”
  • Hamilton Spectator, October 5, 2011
• “He is trying to build a healthier, greener, more prosperous and better educated province…McGuinty’s experience in government will be needed in the coming years.”
  • Ottawa Citizen, October 4, 2011

 

 

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It means work harder, relentlessly, and like we are way, way behind.

That’s what it means.  That’s all that it means.

We’ve got the best leader, the best plan, the best team.  Keep spreading the forward, together message – and then GOTV!

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CBC MetroMorning host Matt Galloway takes on Tim Hudak about the latter’s homophobic, desperate pamphlet.

It’s pretty extraordinary.  One of the most brutal journalistic poundings of the year.  You can listen to it here.

 

 

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Conservatives React to Hudak’s Desperate, Dishonest, Homophobic Flyer

Toronto – – Prominent Conservatives are reacting to Tim Hudak’s desperate, dishonest, and homophobic flyer.

John Tory, former PC leader, CFRB, October 3, 2011:

“I can’t imagine, first of all, what strategy this embodies in terms of this late in an election…And secondly, it seems to go against everything certainly that we’re supposed to be explaining, and getting kids to embrace and understand.  They don’t have to be accepting for their own personal lives, but just accepting of the fact that people are different. This just seems inflammatory.”

Jaime Watt, former co-chair, Ontario PC campaigns, Power and Politics, October 3, 2011:

“I can’t explain it for the life of me…I don’t want to cause my friends that are running that campaign any trouble today, but I can’t understand this, and I certainly can’t understand the rationale that would actually take them off the agenda and have this a media issue for the last push of the campaign.”

Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun columnist and former Hudak PC candidate, via Facebook:

“I am so disgusted with today’s comments by Willowdale PC candidate Vince Agovino that he would fight to keep ‘queer issues’ out of Catholic schools. Is this man running in the U.S. Bible Belt of the U.S. or in Toronto. I thought we’d moved beyond such nonsense.”

Gerry Nicholls, Conservative Commentator and former head of the National Citizens Coalition with Stephen Harper, AM640, October 3, 2011:

“Probably not the kind of thing that the conservatives want to be talking about right now…This is not the kind of the thing that they want talking about a couple of days before the election because it kind of plays to the liberal Narrative that these guys are to the right of the political spectrum…I`m surprised they did…”

Jim Richards, CFRB, October 3, 2011:

“If you believe that this is the curriculum, you’re too stupid for me to vote for you. You are absolutely too stupid for me to vote for you. You know that that’s not the curriculum; You know that that is not the curriculum. How am I supposed to vote for someone that is that dumb? How am I supposed to vote for someone who is that stupid? You want to run this province? And you’re that much of an ignoramus?”

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