Showing Electoral Grits

Safe, secure and bland wins the campaign for Premier Dalton Mcguinty and his Liberal team across the province, especially when running against even blander competition and opposition trying hard to outbland you and your campaign.

Obviously with the kind of campaign it was, both Mcguinty and the Liberals ran it as it should have been run, as both the Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats now represent the old probable alternatives, Green and Reform being the new possible alternatives then we may see the repeat of this result more often then not in this new century for Ontario many more moons from here on.

But this isn't about those who got elected or even reelected (Joe Dickson of Ajax-Pickering, Mike Brown of Algoma-Manitoulin, Ted McMeekin of Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale, Aileen Carroll of Barrie, Kuldip Kular of Bramalea-Gore-Malton, Linda Jeffrey of Brampton-Springdale, Vic Dhillon of Brampton West, Dave Levac of Brant, Pat Hoy of Chatham-Kent-Essex, Tony Ruprecht of Davenport, David Caplan of Don Valley East, Kathleen Wynne of Don Valley West, Steve Peters of Elgin--Middlesex--London, Mike Colle of Eglinton-Lawrence, Bruce Crozier of Essex, Donna Cansfield of Etobicoke Centre, Laurel Broten of Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Shafiq Qaadri of Etobicoke North, Jean-Marc Lalonde of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, Liz Sandals of Guelph, Sophia Aggelonitis of Hamilton Mountain, Carol Mitchell of Huron-Bruce, John Gerretsen of Kingston and the Islands, John Milloy of Kitchener Centre, Leeanna Pendergast of Kitchener-Conestoga, Maria Van Bommel of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, Khalil Ramal of London-Fanshawe, Deb Matthews of London North Centre, Chris Bentley of London West, Michael Chan of Markham-Unionville, Amrit Mangat of Mississauga-Brampton South, Peter Fonseca of Mississauga East-Cooksville, Harinder Takhar of Mississauga-Erindale, Bob Delaney of Mississauga-Streetsville, Charles Sousa of Mississauga South, Kim Craitor of Niagara Falls, Monique Smith of Nipissing, Lou Rinaldi of Northumberland-Quinte West, Helena Jaczek of Oak Ridges-Markham, Kevin Flynn of Oakville, Yasir Naqvi of Ottawa Centre, Phil McNeely of Ottawa-Orleans, Dalton McGuinty of Ottawa South, Madeleine Meilleur of Ottawa-Vanier, Jim Watson of Ottawa West-Nepean, John Wilkinson of Perth-Wellington, Jeff Leal of Peterborough, Wayne Arthurs of Pickering-Scarborough East, Leona Dombrowsky of Prince Edward-Hastings, Reza Moridi of Richmond Hill, David Orazietti of Sault Ste. Marie, Gerry Phillips of Scarborough-Agincourt, Brad Duguid of Scarborough Centre, Margarett Best of Scarborough-Guildwood, Bas Balkissoon of Scarborough-Rouge River, Lorenzo Berardinetti of Scarborough Southwest, Jim Bradley of St. Catharines, Michael Bryant of St. Paul's, Jim Brownell of Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, Rick Bartolucci of Sudbury, Bill Mauro of Thunder Bay-Atikokan, Michael Gravelle of Thunder Bay-Superior North, David Ramsay of Timiskaming-Cochrane, George Smitherman of Toronto Centre, Greg Sorbara of Vaughan, David Zimmer of Willowdale, Sandra Pupatello of Windsor West, Dwight Duncan of Windsor-Tecumseh, Monte Kwinter of York Centre, Laura Albanese of York South-Weston and Mario Sergio of York West), no, this is about those who became deelected (Caroline Dicocco of Sarnia-Lambton, Mario Racco of Thornhill, Tim Peterson of Mississauga South, Joe Tascona of Barrie and Paul Ferreira of York South-Weston).

Each was interesting in their own right, but less about themselves personally, it was the local issues that killed the political careers for each one, especially Dicocco who at one time was among the greatest proponents of electoral reform within the government caucus, with some saying Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley took away his support over a hospital deal and Premier Mcguinty for mistakes on the inside such as her abandonment of principles over giving up sponsorship for a political reform bill fining bad politicians.

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Mcguinty's Ontario Liberals have a chance here, start afresh with a new vision for a new mandate or repeat the same old status quo agenda like Bob Rae's New Democrats or Mike Harris' Tories did almost two and one decade ago respectfully that both lacked common sense and caused revolutions by the populus against them.