Raise the Hammer

When my fellow ward seven candidate Scott Duvall pledges to not accept money from any unions nor their members, of whom many are members of the NDP, the provincial political party that recruited him, so will I.

The odds are pretty long that Scott will fall on his sword any time soon, why else is his silence so deafening?

As to making donations public, why not, I may be the only contributor to my campaign, so there you go.

So my question is this, is it ok for a provincial political party like the NDP’s Hamilton Mountain members, and their elected member for Hamilton Mountain MPP Chris Charlton to recruit an ex-officio union executive and member of the provincial NDP party to run for municipal office using the NDP's riding association members to canvass for the candidate they overtly recruited, because I sure don’t?

Maybe I should fight fire with fire and lower myself to their level? Not on your life.

Instead, starting tomorrow when I pick up the keys to my new home in ward seven, I’m going to introduce myself to everyone on Bluebird Avenue, give them my business card with the date of the election on the back and pray like heck they remember me at the ballot box, then till November 13, continue knocking on doors, it’s the only way that will work without taking development community donations to mount the same kind of slick advertising campaign the NDP and Scott Duvall are planning to run to plow me under like yesterdays corn.

To that I say, bring it on brother, I have Logan’s fire in my belly to win.

Unless I mount the same type of usurious ‘unionized’ campaign using members of the ‘development’ community to mount it with, I do not have an even playing field to run on and the accountability measures you would like me to completely agree to will not help me one bit counter-acting the NDP’s onslaught at the ballot box.

What to do, what to do.