Please tell me that Carol Mitchell is going to lose this riding??? She has been the absolute worst MPP you could ever have.

Any idea who the conservatives or the NDP are going to nominate? I heard Grant Robertson is not going to run for the NDP.

Well so far I’m not too excited over the choices on the conservative side. Morely and Frieberger….two typical local municipal politicians.

Still no sign on who the NDP are going to put up? Please tell me someone who understands agriculture.

I’ve heard through the od grapevine that Paul Klopp, family farmer and former Huron NDP MPP is considering running.
Grant Robertson is enjoying his new position in the NFU too much, if his weekly radio commentaries are any indication, to run this time.
Too bad, he makes a good candidate, but Paul Klopp will make a good one too and should send Carol Mitchell into lose it mode in debates.

I have been asking around about Diane Peckitt. She seems like someone I can vote for. She isn’t one of the ol’ boys club from the municipal level which is a good thing in my books! I heard that she is on the Ag Leadership Program….that’s impressive.

Carol will win this riding again. Paul Klopp doesn’t stand a chance.

As for the Conservatives…Morley and Frieberger don’t stand a chance against Carol. I agree with Farmboy that Peckitt would be a good MPP, but I still think the liberals have this riding locked up.

After talking to my daughters (who are always right) I have come to the following conclusion. If the Conservatives are smart, they will elect Diane Peckitt as their candidate, because Peckitt is the Conservative choice that can beat Carol Mitchell. But I hear from my Conservative buddies that Morley has a bunch new members signed up and will be tough.

Paul Klopp it is, and he is out in the riding weekly, campaigning. He’s a great candidate, especially for agriculture. Robertson and Klopp are tightening up the NDP agricultural policy together. Anyway thing is better than the cons or the libs.

In my opinion, Carol will get in with a majority in this election, but you will be surprised in how much latent support the Green Party gets this time–humbly spoken by the Green candidate who is trained by Al Gore to give climate change presentations and happens to be the Deputy Leader of the GPO. The NDP are very weak, the conservatives were split by the nomination. None of the other candidates have any presence in the north of the riding.
As far as agriculture goes, I don’t believe that any of the major parties have done farmers any favours. I was an organic farmer for about 7 years on a mixed agriculture farm, and I believe that the other major parties are not going to invest in value-added ventures, farm-gate promotion, giving incentives to shift into organic agriculture or provide ecological services~all of which the agricultural sector needs to become profitable and to start on the road to helping farmers have a fair income.

Are you kidding me. The candidate declares she has got a lot of latent Green support. Ah ha ha ha. I went to one of those talks and frankly Ms Serda is one of the worse public speakers I have had to sit through, she was a joke in the federal election. People were squirming in their seats so hoping to get out of there, sitting beside the other speakers she looked like the Queen of Amateur Hour.
Clear too she knows nothing about the Huron part of the riding, where Paul Klopp will take a good whack out of Carol Mitchell’s vote, building on his own reputation and the left over good will for Grant Robertson. The Conservatives have some catching up to do, and they are pretty invisible but there is enough of a base of people who would vote for a blue dog as long as it was under the Conservative banner
No clue who will win this riding, my only prediction is that Ms Serda may be fighting Denis Valenta for last spot.

ummm interesting, before going into the election the big hype was Enviromental issues, Now it has become Education issues. But here I go again wanting more out of all 3 top parties to explain how they are going to help us people that live in towns. like homelessness… the poor… taxes and what are they gonna do about the youth crime rates! Youth crime is on the rise.. laws are way too lax on youth. Parents have no rights after 16. So if they are old enough to do the crime, move out, Tell mom and dad under the “PRIVACY LAW” that we have no rights over their Health, Then these kids are old enough to make these decicions then they should be old enough to VOTE! And stop making Parents responsible until 18! You don’t like that aspect then change the laws and get harder on Street drugs and B&E’s and give us our rights back. Why should I pay a whole lot of extra on house insurance because I had to claim only once in our life because youths broke into my home? And they get off with next to nothing for them to repeat again! and the Remands like 10 X in courts over a a year is stupid and a waste of taxpayers money! There are other important issues like this that is NEVER addressed by anyone. I can only assume the Agriculture and Education and How to vote are the only issues that matter to all politians! Tired of People complaining about all the crime and then Never stand up to do anything about it!

Uh, Farmer Fred is it? If Victoria Serda is such a bad speaker why did she get elected to municipal council? She’d have to be pretty damn good to have been elected municipally. What I predict Fred is that your typing your comment from one of the computers at the Liberal/Conservative war rooms, or from your home computer with a massive Blue or Red sign on your lawn. Your child-like insults of a great candidate tells me that you are both immature and that you really don’t deserve the time of day.

Matt I know it hurts your little Green heart, but Ms Serda is a terrible candidate.
Municipal politics in a small town is about who you know. Lots of people know her, that doesn’t make her a great provincial or federal candidate.
I think you have this riding wrong. I am expecting a narrow, razor’s edge narrow victory for Rob Morley. It will be tight, but the Liberal campaign in Huron-Bruce is starting to sound desperate and that suggests all is not right in their world. I’m guessing less than 250-500 votes. I also think you will see Paul Klopp post a significant improvement in NDP numbers. Not win, but post a big gain which may set him up for a good shot next time around.
And Matt, I am a former federal Green, who left when May did her thing with Dion. I chose not to support Serda the first time I heard her speak. It might make me immature that I left the Greens, but I think that just maybe it indicates I’m all growd up now.

Victoria Serdia is a nice person but saying she was an organic farmer is pushing it. In fact, she has previously described herself as a hobby farmer. A bit of a slippery slope there making out that she is a farmer.
That said, I have watched Victoria in debates and also put on her power point presentation, and I will vouch here with Fred, she is not a dynamic speaker. Painful comes to mind here.
I also will say that I am a NDP supporter, but that aside, Victoria really lacks presence, whether on the debate side, or in the riding.
In her own town of Port Elgin, she didn’t even participate in the 2nd largest Labour Day parade in Ontario. She had a great opportunity to get out the Green message and raise her profile, but alas, she was no where in sight.
Not so for the NDP and Paul Klopp.
As for being a locally elected town councillor. I remember reading Victoria’s blogg, where she bragged that it was easy. She put up a few signs, and because she was a woman, it was easy.
I guess humble isn’t a part of her lexicon!

Carol Mitchell is Blowing out everyone extremely badly here.

Sadly, I feel like I have to correct some huge insults here, but hey, what can you expect except to attack people who have good intentions?
I asked to be in the Labour Day parade, and didn’t even get a reply, so how could I participate?
Also, if I am such a bad speaker, why do I continuously get passed on to other organizers of events and promoted by those who have heard me speak? Why have I done 67 presentations to over 17,000 people, and keep getting asked for more? Come on. Get real and stop with the partisan stuff.
When I ran in Federal election, I was the third candidate the Greens put forward, and it was not my intention to run then, but I did it so we would at least have a Green choice in Huron-Bruce. I had little experience, not a very good platform for a rural area, and came into the race late. If you judge me on that, then you definitely are not very understanding, to say the least. And if you were a Green member in my riding and I’ve never heard of you, then it shows the lack of commitment you had to the party anyway.
By the way, I have never said that I was a hobby farmer. I worked and lived on 300 acre organic farm for 7 years, and it was a real farm, with 5 acres of vineyards, 600 fruit trees, 6 acres of organic gardens, 2 commercial greenhouses, sheep, cows, etc. so don’t talk about things you don’t know.
My experience with a lot of NDP supporters is that they love to attack the Greens, just as Howard Hampton did right before the election when he totally misrepresented the Greens on health and education. So, in the future, other readers, don’t believe what you hear. Get informed, and if you have a beef with someone, do it privately.
Also, if politics were easy, I think I wouldn’t have to put up with all this negativity from people who are trying to take me down for no good reason except for wanting another party to do worse in the election.
I wish that those of you who are so forceful in your opinions would come out of the closet and let us know your real names, where you live, and what your party affiliation is.

I’d like to note that in the Student Vote, I came in second behind Carol Mitchell, and won some of the schools where I spoke. Somehow, I think this is a good indication of my popularity and ability to speak.
http://www.studentvotes.ca/results/english/CandidateResultsbyDistrict.htm