Ken Lewenza Jr's Last Gasp
I just cannot believe it. If a Star "news" story deals with elections in the least little bit, Bill Marra gets slammed.
To the friends of Bill who have been encouraging him to run in Ward 4 because it will be "easier" for him, take a look at the Star story today "More candidates sign up." It was basically a non-story other than Percy Hatfield running and John Fairley not running.
So why was it published---to scare off Marra again and to encourage him to run in four years ("Mayor Eddie Francis is expected to seek a second term. He has said he will limit himself to two terms.") but more importantly because the E-machine is going crazy trying to figure out what Marra is going to do. It was meant to draw him out to make a decision! And who knows, this is probably part of Marra's strategy. It is so funny I might have advised him to do that too if I were working for his campaign team (I am NOT by the way so I hope another rumour will not be spread)
As for Junior, he had better get some political handlers if he intends to run for Joe Comartin's Federal seat if the rumour that Joe is retiring is true. He better learn to stop being used by the E-machine to go after Marra. Lewenza was in the "offensive mode" all right. If Francis did not dare attack Marra negatively last time around, Lewenza better be careful calling Marra nasty names as he did in the story.
Lewenza I am afraid has his problems. He did not make many Labour friends with his anti-Labour Council diatribe. I thought it was hilarious when Gary Parent was interviewed on Face-to-Face and said that Ken was "taken out of context" by Gord, whatever that means. That was the best he could come up with to try and salvage Junior's position.
If Lewenza was misquoted, why doesn't he have the guts to attack Henderson and say so if he is in such an "offensive mode?" Is he too afraid of the Star? If he was quoted accurately, then he just set up Gary Parent and gave him a feeble excuse to use that no one would ever believe.
Ken Jr. said that he looks forward "to getting out to talk with the constituents, this time with a record as opposed to last time when I didn't have a record." Unfortunately for him, the electorate may also know this time for whom they are voting and know of his record.
I like Ken Jr. and at one time thought he had a chance to be Mayor one day. Right now, I cannot see him beating Ed Sleiman for the second seat on Council in Ward 4 after Cassivi. I have met Ed and know that he is passionate about the City. Provided that Ed runs the same effective campaign as last time, he and David Cassivi will make a great team on Council for Ward 4.
Poor Ken. Another one term wonder?
To the friends of Bill who have been encouraging him to run in Ward 4 because it will be "easier" for him, take a look at the Star story today "More candidates sign up." It was basically a non-story other than Percy Hatfield running and John Fairley not running.
So why was it published---to scare off Marra again and to encourage him to run in four years ("Mayor Eddie Francis is expected to seek a second term. He has said he will limit himself to two terms.") but more importantly because the E-machine is going crazy trying to figure out what Marra is going to do. It was meant to draw him out to make a decision! And who knows, this is probably part of Marra's strategy. It is so funny I might have advised him to do that too if I were working for his campaign team (I am NOT by the way so I hope another rumour will not be spread)
As for Junior, he had better get some political handlers if he intends to run for Joe Comartin's Federal seat if the rumour that Joe is retiring is true. He better learn to stop being used by the E-machine to go after Marra. Lewenza was in the "offensive mode" all right. If Francis did not dare attack Marra negatively last time around, Lewenza better be careful calling Marra nasty names as he did in the story.
Lewenza I am afraid has his problems. He did not make many Labour friends with his anti-Labour Council diatribe. I thought it was hilarious when Gary Parent was interviewed on Face-to-Face and said that Ken was "taken out of context" by Gord, whatever that means. That was the best he could come up with to try and salvage Junior's position.
If Lewenza was misquoted, why doesn't he have the guts to attack Henderson and say so if he is in such an "offensive mode?" Is he too afraid of the Star? If he was quoted accurately, then he just set up Gary Parent and gave him a feeble excuse to use that no one would ever believe.
Ken Jr. said that he looks forward "to getting out to talk with the constituents, this time with a record as opposed to last time when I didn't have a record." Unfortunately for him, the electorate may also know this time for whom they are voting and know of his record.
I like Ken Jr. and at one time thought he had a chance to be Mayor one day. Right now, I cannot see him beating Ed Sleiman for the second seat on Council in Ward 4 after Cassivi. I have met Ed and know that he is passionate about the City. Provided that Ed runs the same effective campaign as last time, he and David Cassivi will make a great team on Council for Ward 4.
Poor Ken. Another one term wonder?
posted by JoeBlog at 2:45 p.m.
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