Kormos in a landslide.

The new boundaries for this riding favor the Liberals more than they ever have. Port Colborne & Wainfleet areas have favored Liberals in the past. Couple that with growing sense in the riding that there are being taken for granted by their current MPP. And there are winning conditions for the Liberals.

If the Liberals run a strong province-wide campaign & Mastroianni meet expectations, Welland COULD see a big upset.

Normally Kormos walks away with this riding, but there are a lot of murmurs in the riding of dissatisfaction with how much attention Kormos gives his constituents. With the new boundaries, a strong Liberal campaign & a weak NDP campaign could be enough to unseat Kormos.

I had a chance to meet John Mastroianni at Brock yesterday at an event hosted by the campus young Liberals, and talk with him for about 10 minutes. He is a very personable and knowledgeable candidate who wants to do good things for the riding and students. I also met the PC candidate, who didn’t talk to me, he just handed me a box of kraft dinner with his picture on it. I must say that if that is how he is campaigning to students, it is very condescending and says a lot of what the PC party has to offer for students.

Brock students could push this riding and from what I’ve seen, Brock, and this riding will go Liberal.

Welland has been devistated over the years with the closure of many manufacturing plants including the closure of Atlas Steels and Kormos did nothing to try to stop it or work on alternatives. What has Kormos done for Welland?

I have never ever ever ever been more frustrated with a Member of Provincial parliament than I have been with Peter Kormos. It isn’t the issues that he brings to light that bothers me, it is how he does it. How is anyone going go hear him if keeps getting thrown out of the forums that would get him heard? Not only has he been thrown out of Queen’s Park for his less than decorus behaviour, but also when, by some miracle, the NDP got themselves elected and our riding finally had someone at the cabinet table, Kormos gets himself thrown out of caucus and cabinet. He gets NOTHING done for Welland and is distained by almost everyone at Queen’s Park, including members of his own caucus. TIME FOR A CHANGE WELLAND!!!

Normally this riding doesn’t get much press because it has been dominated by the NDP for about the last 30 years. This time is different, John is running a grass roots campaign and trying to get the word out that Wellanders do have a choice. Is it going to be easy, No. Is it possible yes. If John was to upset Peter, it would be by the slimmest of margins.

And I would like to make one side note. For the first time in a number of years, Peter has stayed in the Welland riding, he has not made the trips across the province like in past elections to promote other NDP candidates. So in that aspect John has a small victory for the Liberal Party. By forcing the NDP’s most well known MPP, to focus on his riding, the Liberals do not have to worry about Peter gaining NDP exposure across the Province.

Please note this comment is in a series of comments by me. I’m doing a prediction for every riding. For this riding I’m predicting the winner will be the NDP

I noticed the above opinionated Liberals can’t spell their words correctly. Oh well it doesn’t matter because it’s all crap anyway. Through our almost democratic proccess the People of the Welland Riding have spoken. Peter won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read 2 interesting articles this week an both were in the New York Times on Friday 2007/10/12. The first article by a Judy Battista dealt with the New England Patriots and how they “Retooled, Revived and Running on All Cylinders”. A quote in the article from John Brady, the quarterback, “I think there’s still a lot of room for improvement”. That is a winning attitude. The second article deals with “Owner of Patriots Is Donating $5 Million to Columbia”. The article is again by Judy Battista, busy person, and on the same day. Robert Kraft the owner played football at Columbia. Columbia football has been the butt of jokes for many years. But Kraft “has mentioned that what he learned playing football there — teamwork, perseverences, subjugating ego– was applicable to building a multinational business.”??? Could I comment, perhaps applicable to winning an election. The third not so interesting article was in the Welland Tribune, on Thursday 2007/10/11. The Liberal candidate is quoted as saying “he wouldn’t change a thing the campaign he, the party and a small army of volunteers ran in trying to knock off Kormos.” Here is someone who just got smoked and he doesn’t have a clue as to why. 30 years of NDP and he does not get it. Pity. I wonder if General Custer was given another chance at Little Bighorn would he have changed his campaign strategy. As the philosophical liberal candidate in defeat said “I’ll get up in the morning and go for a cup of coffee. Life goes on”.