I spent much of the day in Fredericton (southside) and saw some interesting things. Brad Green had a bunch of signs up in Fton-Silverwood and Greg Byrne a bunch in Fton-Lincoln - no surprises. BUT I was surprised that the only private property signs were NDP.
Dennis Atchison had one sign I saw and Allison Brewer had lots on private property. Maybe I and others are underestimating her?
Also Brad Green has a radio ad running. Despite the hype of leadership coming from the Tory campaign, Green's ad didn't mention Bernard Lord and not even the PC Party. Weird.
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Another interesting Fredericton riding to watch will be "my" riding of Fredericton-Nashwaaksis. Liberal TJ Burke is one of the young stars of the Liberal Party but the redefined riding shift westward to Douglas could alter the picture. And the Conservatives are offering an excellent candidate in Mike Smith. As a resident of the riding it is great to be able to choose between two solid candidates.
Tidbits from media:
A Tory candidate gone looney:
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In Gleaner:
Lucky loonie
Greg Davis, the Tory candidate for Campbellton-Restigouche Centre, carries a loonie wrapped in tape in his pocket everywhere he goes.
While he was riding on the Tory campaign bus near Atholville with Premier Bernard Lord on Thursday, Davis explained that he found the coin after the campaign kick-off rally in Fredericton last Friday.
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More to come later.
Wondering why Green did not talk about Lord or the Conservative Party on the radio?.. I found that so interesting. I found that first of all, in a campaign, you should vote for the candidate itself and not for the party he's representing...
Sara G, that letter writer in Gleaner is known CONservative. His father donates lot of money for CONservatice causes. So he wants to make sure that it is a good investment, like any other business person.
Tidbits from media.
It looks Bernard Lord has been sitting on his...for last 7 years. He has been given an appropriate gift by one of his candidates-workboots May be workboots will be an incentive and Mr. Dither may get off of his ...
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In Gleaner....
Present for Lord
Progressive Conservative leader Bernard Lord received a present in Saint-Quentin on Thursday.
Percy Mockler, incumbent for the riding for Restigouche- La-Vallee, gave his boss a pair of workboots at a rally at his headquarters
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Is Bernard Lord going to donate over $200 million from his pocket to pay for his comaign promises?
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In Gleaner
Taxes won't pay for promises
Progressive Conservative Leader Bernard Lord is promising that if elected, he will not to hike taxes to pay for his election promises.
"I will not raise taxes," he told the editorial board of The Daily Gleaner this week
It is my understanding that Greg Byrne doesn't even reside within the riding of Fredericton-Lincoln.
Is it really fair to the residents of the riding to be given a choice of someone who doesn't live within the riding?
Fredericton-Nashwaaksis will stay Liberal! The riding distribution helps T.J. Burke rather than hurting him. He had 46% of popular vote in 2003 and now picks up Estey's Bride, Keswick and Douglas which voted 75% liberal in 2003 when Ray Dillion lost to Kirk MacDonald by 101 votes. I agree Mike Smith is a great candidate. He was a popular city councilor but that was 10 years ago and the riding has grown dramatically since then. Burke also won by large majority in 2003, look for a Liberal win here....he is too strong to be knocked off at this point in his political career.
Mike Smith from the Fredericton-Nashwaaksis riding actually finished his council term in 2001- which was 5 years ago, not 10 and he has remained very active in the community since then. I think he is the best candidate for our riding!
Rightfully so, Fredericton Nashwaaksis will stay Liberal in 2006. T.J. Burke is viewed as a young rising star within the Liberal Party and considered as a shoe-in for Cabinet, something the Northside of Fredericton hasn't had since the early 80's. Mike Smith remains to be a popular guy among PC party members but remains unattractive to general electorate. Burke, on the other hand, resonates well with young families in urban Fredericton and outside his riding. Unfortunately, people in Fredericton see that a vote for their Conservative candidate is a vote for Moncton since Lord has given the bank away to the province's hub city. I repeat a solid Liberal hold if you look at Burke's numbers in 2003 in current riding and redistributed riding where Ray Dillion left off.
Brewer's riding may do well by voting her in. If it's going to be a slim minority gov't (either way) the party in power is going to need to have her vote. So there will be lots of sucking up and lots of goodies for her riding, if she is elected.
That's a pretty unfair comment on Brewer's campaign launch at the legislature. It was an honest mistake-no politician is going to know the thousands of legislative laws when they've almost never had a party member their. And "sanctity"? Get real.
As for NDP signs, thats virtually always the case, in fact its better than polls-you can usually count the number of NDP signs to see how many votes they are going to get, its not indicative of much else.
The other parties are company parties and everybody knows it, and canadians don't like confrontation and like to get along with their neighbours-the NDP supporters are usually the only ones who are supportive enough to put out a sign. But a few die-hards doesn't a majority make.
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