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Old Posted May 11, 2014, 4:39 AM
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Old Posted Jun 24, 2014, 10:15 PM
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Looks like Andrea Horwath will resign tomorrow as NDP leader.

Rumour has it she may run for Mayor.
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Old Posted Jun 24, 2014, 10:49 PM
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Another rumor has it, that rumor was false. She's not resigning. This is all twitter stuff though.
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Old Posted Jun 24, 2014, 11:39 PM
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Given her stance on LRT and her relationship with Wynne, whether real or political, I don't want her in Hamilton's Oval Orifice > that's not what Hamilton needs right now.
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Old Posted Jun 25, 2014, 3:38 PM
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She didn't resign and she won't resign anytime soon. The NDP doesn't get the knives out for the leader when they lose elections. They never have and won't likely ever do that. In the NDP the members decide not the backroom people. They have their bi annual convention coming up in the next little while and they always have a leadership affirmation vote which is basically just a show of hands. The NDP has always retained their leaders for the long term.
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Old Posted Jun 25, 2014, 5:54 PM
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In 2007, then NDP leader Howard Hampton also blamed his disappointing third consecutive third-place finish on strategic voters who feared the PC's, and vowed that he was going nowhere. In 2008, Hampton resigned as leader of the NDP in his twelfth year as leader. Horwath now has two more consecutive third-place general election finishes to add to the NDP's record in her sixth year as leader, and vows to continue on. According to her, the NDP remains in the same position it has been in since 1995 because Ontario voters are still voting out of fear. Truth be told, it is the memory of prior NDP government that is just as much to be blamed. How about genuine reform within the party instead of blaming voters for your misfortunes?
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2014, 12:32 AM
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Powers to bow out of municipal politics
Hamilton Spectator, Matthew Van Dongen, June 26 2014

Longtime Dundas Councillor Russ Powers will not run in the next municipal election.

Powers has served as a Dundas representative for 27 years at various local levels of government, but announced Thursday he will retire from municipal politics.

Not necessarily all politics, however.



more good news! Rob, Tom, Lloyd?
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2014, 12:53 AM
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Yeah, not to dance on his grave but it was time...it was time years ago.
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Old Posted Jul 3, 2014, 12:20 PM
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McHattie plans 100-day tour to every Hamilton neighbourhood
(CBC Hamilton, Samantha Craggs, July 2 2014)

Mayoral candidate Brian McHattie hopes to expand his appeal to the suburbs by traveling to nearly 200 neighbourhoods in 100 days.

The current Ward 1 councillor is well known in the lower city. But he hopes to broaden that base by going door-to-door in all of Hamilton’s 190 neighbourhoods, he said.

McHattie launched his campaign in January, 10 months before the Oct. 27 election, so he could become better known throughout Hamilton, he said...

McHattie will knock on doors and hold community events, meeting residents and business owners while wearing a pair of tailor-made shoes bearing his blue campaign colours. With the tour, he hopes to set himself apart from competitors such as Coun. Brad Clark and former mayor Fred Eisenberger.

Read it in full here.


Coming 276 days after declaring, 182 after registering and 157 after launching the campaign, I would be surprised if similar legwork hasn't already taken place. (If not, more's the pity.)

Will be curious to see what his trademark kicks look like.
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Bob Bratina does an about face and may run after all

Bob apparently was snubbed by the riding association for the Liberals, which whatever you think of Bob is pretty shocking. Unless Sheila Copps is coming back...
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Old Posted Jul 11, 2014, 6:47 PM
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I cannot for the life of me understand why someone would give up a chance at a second term as mayor in order to lose a federal race. The Liberals have been murdered in Hamilton Centre since the riding has existed, and I don’t think it’s a lot to do with the MP there…

You’re right, it is shocking that he would be snubbed by the riding association, but that’s not what is said happened. It said he sold (or believes he sold) fewer memberships than someone else. That’s surprising, too, but it doesn’t mean the association doesn’t want him. Bizarre that he thinks he would win the mayoral race, but also thinks he might not win the nomination to be Liberal cannon fodder.
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Old Posted Jul 11, 2014, 10:41 PM
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Bratina is considering putting himself forward for nomination as a candidate for the Liberals in the next federal election, but not in the riding of Hamilton Centre. He is apparently considering standing for nomination as Liberal candidate for Hamilton East - Stoney Creek.

Say what you may about Bratina and his political acumen, it is refreshing to see an elected official with enough common decency and respect for his electorate to see his current term out before seeking higher office. That is a refreshing change from the likes of Christopherson and Horwath who both dropped their respective municipal electoral obligations mid-term at the first sign of political opportunity at a higher level of office.
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I dunno, the word refreshing and Bob Bratina don't really jive.

He should get back into radio where that voice can be put to better use.
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Meeting with McHattie tonight in Lansdale. Gonna drive home the need for two-way conversion support.
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Gonna drive home the need for two-way conversion support.
...from the mayor and eight councillors, restated annually in capital budget allocations, until the slate of conversions is completed.
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Old Posted Jul 15, 2014, 2:21 AM
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Spent about 2 hours walking the streets of Barton Village/Lansdale and Gibson with McHattie tonight. Says he hopes to have the approved (12 years ago) conversion streets done by end of this year so the city can start moving onto bigger ones like Wellington/Victora/Wentworth next, especially with the brewery, childrens hospital and new industrial parks being developed just north of Barton. But yeah, he's only one guy...
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Old Posted Jul 15, 2014, 6:47 AM
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Spent about 2 hours walking the streets of Barton Village/Lansdale and Gibson with McHattie tonight. Says he hopes to have the approved (12 years ago) conversion streets done by end of this year so the city can start moving onto bigger ones like Wellington/Victora/Wentworth next, especially with the brewery, childrens hospital and new industrial parks being developed just north of Barton. But yeah, he's only one guy...
Thats definitely a commendable platform and I'm glad that we have a mayoral candidate looking to do that, but he's gonna have one hell of an uphill battle against the majority of the voters in this city who couldn't possibly care less about complete streets. I hope he can somehow pull through.
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Thats definitely a commendable platform and I'm glad that we have a mayoral candidate looking to do that, but he's gonna have one hell of an uphill battle against the majority of the voters in this city who couldn't possibly care less about complete streets. I hope he can somehow pull through.
Tell your friends on the mountain to vote for him. That's where he wins or loses.
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Tell your friends on the mountain to vote for him. That's where he wins or loses.
I've yet to meet anyone from the Mountain who was worth associating with. Woe is me.
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Old Posted Jul 16, 2014, 11:26 PM
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