Joe makes a good Librano…4 get about it…

Hope for a Conservative win in London-North-Centre with the Mazzilli team. Hope John takes it away from Fontana!

Went to a candidates’ meeting and Mazzilli was the worst of the lot. Doesn’t know his facts, didn’t listen to the questions.

This is a urban riding with a lot of students, there is no way the Conservatives will win this one. It is a two way race between the Liberal incumbant and the NDP who are surging in Ontario and will likely take the riding next door too.

Yikes! OK London-North Centre people: Here’s the scoop. I’m a long-time NDPer but this riding can’t go Conservative. That would just be too low functioning for us more enlightened types. So…let’s vote strategically. Support Joe Fontana in this riding (even if you’re NDP). Then, tell your friends in London-Fanshawe to vote for Irene Mathyssen (the NDP candidate). While you’re at it, tell your London-West friends to vote for Liberal Sue Barnes.

There’s just no way we Londoners can stoop to the depths of voting Conservative. Trust me. I’m from Alberta and I know what Stephen Harper and his neo-cons are like. My relatives support him and they’re members of the KKK. He’s not being honest in this campaign.

So…VOTE… and vote strategically.

This R.J. has fallen into the liberal fear-mongering brainwash and has posted the same comment thru all the riding blogs. Last time there was a strategic vote you got more of the same: corrupt liberals.

This is in response to R.J.: This is the problem with liberals like you, R.J. You guys think you’re all smarter and better than everybody else. You think that you own this country and that it will be yours. Look at the facts: The Liberals are full of scandal and mismanagement. The truth is, if you support the Liberals, you support corruption and scandal. You are the ones who have serious issues that all Canadians fear. You liberals are the ones who want to legalize gay marriage, legalize polygamy, legalize marijuana causing slippery slopes for our society to deal with. Liberals just don’t get it, they never will. You can’t be trusted. You can’t even support the party that speaks most to your flawed values! Why don’t you consider the Marxist-Lenonist party, I think they are a little more in tune with your ideology. Vote for change London-West, vote for honesty, integrity and Canadian values. Vote Al Gretzky.

Thanks CORY for proving my point: You have to be low functioning to vote Conservative.

I rest my case!

The NDP is the best way to go trust me on that as a 65 year old voter lived in Canada all my life. From Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax. With my experience the NDP are the best choice if they ever win majority (which will not happen till people have a taste of the conservatives (which I have had) than NDP will have a chance of majority) the NDP would make Canada into a Country which all would want to live in, work, and educate their children. With my experience as a voter I believed the unbelievable (liberals) and turning our country into a US state (conservatives) and than the NDP some mistakes but nothing compared to other parties. The party to trust, the party that fights for Canada and its citizens and knows what Canadians need and want! Vote NDP trust them and you will not regret it = ). Best wishes to all candidates in all ridings and parties! GOOD LUCK!

Don not forget to vote January 23 2006
NDP!

You are a joke, R.J. Why do you even bother trying to support a corrupt party? Have some self respect and vote your conscience. That’s what I tend on doing, and so do all Canadians. People like you should be ashamed of yourselves. You have no loyalty to your political party and furthermore, no loyalty to your country. Just the thought of handing this country back over to the Liberals is sickening to me and you will see the Canadian people (minus yourself and your nutjob kook friends) will declare their disgust with the Liberal party on January 23rd. At least TRUE NDP supporters will walk away from the polls with a integrity and be confident in the person they select on the ballot. But, you on the other hand R.J., you will walk away from the poll with nothing but you fear and smear tactics that you try to espouse on everybody you ever meet. The choice is clear, corruption vs. change. The NDP or the Conservatives vs. the Liberals. Cheers.

I have spent the last twenty six years in London. I know all too well the reputations of Mr. Fontana and Mr. Mazilli. Being involved with them personally through business and mutual frends, I would never trust either one of them with my money. They have proven time and again that they are untrustworthy and deceiving. I don’t know who I’m voting for this election but it will most certainly not be one these two men.

I’m going to disagree, R. J. When you vote out of fear, you support a grossly inept and massively corrupt Liberal Party that is just as right-wing as the Conservatives. THeir priorities are large corporate tax giveaways, and they’re not getting results for people - they’re getting results for their well-connected friends. A vote for the Liberals is a vote for a conservative party.

Also, Fontana is by far the most useless Liberal Minister in Canada. He first got elected because he has money, and he got a cabinet appointment because he’s a Martinite. He didn’t even have a budget for affordable housing until the NDP gave him one. More New Democrats will get more results for Londoners.

Devin, Where do you come up with a mythical fact that Fontana has money? He lived most of his life in East London in a modest home and only in the last 10 years did he upgrade to a larger home to accomodate his family. He drives a regular car and does not live extravagantly like most ministers do. People don’t win elections by fluke term after term. Unless of course, you are saying everyone in his riding has just been stupid and ignorant for the last 20 + years. But if you want to vote for a 30 year old boy. MP’s earn cabinet positions; they’re not bought. So what if he supported Martin all these years? Isn’t that the idea? Why would the PM put people in his cabinet who didn’t support him? How would that make any sense. Maybe you’re fed up with the liberals and that’s fine; you can vote for anyone you choose but slandering a hard-working politician and calling him useless isn’t fair. Bring facts to the table not propaganda.

A long time NDPer does not abandon his principals to vote Liberal the posting below is from somethign that you will see more and more of after the 23d people who are embarassed to say they are Liberals!

This one is close but I give it to Fontana only because he has an excellent machine to GOTV I can’t speak to the riding myself like my own where I am involved for the Tories but I have a suspicion JOe will be one of the Libs who will win than have to decide if he is stickign around

U.W.O. students may come out in force choosing to stand with Maynard and the NDP, investing, protecting their interest.

Sincerely, Wayne Pitts & Family

Why would anyone vote out a party that has brought us the lowest unemployment in 30 years, 8 years of balanced budgets a paydown of 60 billion dollars in national debt and a well managed social safety net. Don’t forget the huge mess the conservatives left us last time, a 42 billion dollar deficit that took years to recover from. The conservatives had plenty of scandal of their own during their eight year reign under Mulroney and I see lots of those old faces coming out from under the rocks years after being wiped off the face of the political map. If I wanted to vote for George Bush I would move to the United States, Harper is just a second rate clone. Don’t be fooled by slogans jammed down your throat everyday by the right wing fanatics. Good Luck Joe Fontana

To Cory and RJ. If this was the 92/93 election when the voters through out the last corrupt party (the Tories), which side would each of you had been on? It is always so amusing how little people remember, which is why politicians can prey on you before elections. The major issue, do you want to to move away from the centre / left where we are and are on familiar ground, or to the right where we in Ontario know what we get (remember Mike Harris??).

I saw the candidates debate at UWO this past wednesday. Mazilli is by far the worst speaker I have ever seen. He is an embarassment to their party, and that is saying a lot!

“I like Mike” was the Harris slogan of it’s days. It put a smile on my face. I, as a primary/high school student during his reign as premier enjoyed the changes to our school system. We recieved new texts, new/updated cirriculum, and he shoved it to the lousy teachers by asking for a simple standards test to make sure they were capable of teaching(at least they were in my area highschool). So don’t bash Harris in your little scare-game rhetoric obsession problem that you have seemed to develope, Uff. And let’s not forget who made Canada’s prosperity possible for the last 13 years. Yes, that’s right. It was Mr. Mulroney and the landmark deal struck with the U.S. called the FTA. Without this paramount achievement buy Mulroney, this country would have continued down a road of harsh anti-American/Liberal economic policies (need I remind you of the devisatation of the Trudeau National Energy Program of 1980?). So while you Liberals continue to bash Conservative’s all around you (and the world for that matter), I think you should look back to see how little you people remember.

As someone who has been on the left side of politics (for most things), I’m giving my vote to Maynard. Last election, Fontana got mine as I respected him and his work. However, I cannot given any endorsement to this tired Liberal party who is not only rife with corruption, but with an insular sense of entitlement and arrogance. The Liberals need to be humbled and begun anew in order to be a party that listens to people, not the sound of their voices.

I have no desire to endorse the Conservative party, rife with social reactionaries and Bush-friendly neoconservatives. It’s especially too costly to Canada for the Conservatives to seize power, especially with Bush ruling down south. Now if the Cons were run by Red Tories aka Stanfield or Deifenbaker (who did well to stand up to USA), I would have given this option more thought.

Hi Corey, I am in health care so I know what Mikey did to the system. I also lived through the 14% or so Bank of Canada rates that Brian put me through. Whether or not free trade has as much impact as you think it does, is really a wild ass guess as there is no parallel world without NAFTA to compare this one to. The issue is whether self interest is more important than what benefits a large number of people. This is the right left split. Frankly, I like the Canadian model (social democratic, Liberal/NDP, call it what you will), vs the US model (trickle down economics, conservative, call it what you will).

This liberal is a true crook

Wow, this cory fellow is one angry conservative. Most of them are, quite, angry angry people. They hate the fact that gays have equal right, and they hate the fact that legalization of marijuana will take away from their militaristic war on drugs that the conservatives need to make people think they’re actually fighting crime when they’re in reality making it worse and giving the organized criminals a greater role.

I also was in high school during the Mike the Knife days, and if you got new textbooks and enjoyed your experience, you’re either sadistic or you went to private school

ANd as for NAFTA, the bogus scam created to sell our country off to a bunch of multinational corporations…our country would have had more secure jobs, better health regulations and a cleaner environment. Jobs got ciphoned off to Mexico faster than you could say chihuaha. And most of the other projected economic benefits didn’t happen, we’re stuck in piles of trade disputes now because Americans won’t play by the bloody rules of the agreements their businesses sold to our gullible conservative leader of the day, Mulroney, who incase you can’t remember, left us with massive massive debts which the Liberals have been at least trying to pay off. Any smart voter in this riding will vote to keep the conservatives out of office. Dumb voters like COREY here can continue to vote dumb, and vote for a leader who has PUBLICLY said he wanted to “scrap the Canada health act”. Why conservatives are so blind to his remarks is astonishing, given that they are right there on record. But morons are quite content to forget about this, and accuse people who find these remarks scary, as being bought by fear politics. Sheer idiocy.

Cory, I was also a highschool student during the Harris years. I was in the Sudbury school system. I guess the money went to different places, because there wasn’t much in the way of new textbooks or supplies for students that they didn’t pay for themselves. There were an awful lot of angry teachers though. It wasn’t a fun time to be in school. I’m glad I got out in 99 before it got really bad.

The Mazzilli campaign is clearly showing us a sign of things to come by employing unfair (and,might I add, illegal) tactics. If you don’t believe it, take a drive around London where you’ll find his signs CLEARLY illegally place outside of his own riding and also in areas that have been marked as off limits for signage; no other candidate has done this except him. The immaturity and lack of proven political experience has definitely made me question his campaign’s integrity.

All that has managed to happen in this blog is a mudslinging battle one of which we saw in the last election that saw the conservatives slip out of a leading position of power in the polls. The same exact strategy was used by the liberals as a last attempt to regain power in Canada and failed miserably in this election. Joe seems to be a ‘backbencher for life’ that caught a break because he sucked up to the former finance minister for years. John was a strong member of the PC caucus in Ontario until the last provincial election. Be informed, Read each parties platform, look at the records of each party, and vote for what you believe in and not ‘strategically’. Happy Voting

And “LikeItIs” that is compelete BS and you know it there are more illegally placed “Vote JOE” signs then any other candidate including 8 signs in a row a saw on a local elementary school. I’m a Poli Sci major at UWO and don’t mind sign blitzing the weekend before a vote, i find it exciting, but what i do find disturbing is blaitent lies posted on what is supposed to be an informative website.

CY, it’s long past the election but as I was doing some research i stumbled accross this blog. I felt it necessary to mention that in all the research you did on local candidates you made the mistake of confusing John Mazzilli with his older brother Frank Mazzilli. Frank was the member of provincial parliament from London Fanshawe from 1999 untill 2003. John was never elected to popular office although he did run for the Conservative party in London Fanshawe during the 2004 federal election comming in third.