However I'm afraid I'll have to overlook his conscience this time because the Conservatives have put in a superstar this year--some jock rich dude ex Alouettes football CEO [I'm the last girl to be impressed by sports cred], who was appointed to the senate by Harper, and then stepped down to run for MP. When accused of only taking the senate seat to pad his CV, he said, maiz non maiz non...
"In simple terms, the money I was earning in my last profession to where I would be in this profession is what I would call a dramatic, catastrophic pay cut."
A senator salary is around $132 000.
I made a 1/4 of that at my last job.
So.
Vote for a guy... who thinks that living at 4 X my last salary was OH MY GOD THE PAIN THE PAIN!!!
Keeping in mind that this is Quebec where the cost of living is very low. And while he and his wife may still be supporting their third child, their other two kids aren't dependents (I hope since one's a football player and the other is married to a football player.)
And I'm not supposed to see the Conservative party as the party for rich people? I mean, Scarpy might have lots of dough too, but his last job was as a business teacher at the English college with some of the most disadvantaged kids (Dawson.) Just sayin'.
Smith's made his presence known too. He had some kind of over-the-phone town hall. I don't know how popular it was cause I didn't participate, I had a friend over. I also got a "Are you planning to vote Conservative?" phone call this week.
So. A vote for a Scarpy, and then an email letting him know my feelings about gay marriage. That sounds about right.
Note: I'm listening to his interview now. Catastrophic. My GOD. That is so spoiled. Catastrophic is losing your house cause you can't pay your bills. What an asshat.
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* His views as expressed in Hansard are interesting, but I still disagree with him.
9 comments:
LARRY SMITH is running in your riding?! Wow. The Conservatives really are trying to take a run at Good Ol' Scarpy!
I figured that name would mean something to you. I only tonight looked up who the Con candidate was! If my riding falls I'm going to blame all the football fans!!
It's all good...Layton is gonna surpirse everyone in QC anyways. Go Jack go!
I go with Eyal. Why not vote for another Party like NDP or Green? Every vote they receive helps them financially so even if they don't win, you are still encouraging the party. I've always voted Liberal but am seriously considering a change this year.
For more info:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/votecompass/
Also from Wikipedia's NDP entry:
New Democrats today advocate, among other things:
Gender equality and equal rights for LGBT residents
I'm sorry if this posts twice, I may have made a mistake the first time.
This can give you a good idea what to vote, or at the very least give you a clearer view on each party's views.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/votecompass/
and from the NDP's Wikipedia entry:
New Democrats today advocate, among other things:
Gender equality and equal rights for LGBT residents
If people who like Left parties spread their votes among the Liberals, NDP and Bloc in my riding, and those who like Right parties all vote for the ONLY Right party, then guess who will win the riding?
It's strategic voting. If I knew that the NDP was the Left party with the best chance to beat the Cons in my riding, or the Bloc was the best chance to beat them, that's who I would vote for. I am voting AGAINST THE CONSERVATIVES this year. I will not dilute the vote in my riding.
If it was a really safe seat, I could afford to toss the dollars at the NDP or Greens etc. But this football dude is a superstar, he could win. The Liberals are the strongest chance to beat him, in this riding.
If you don't like the Cons, you guys, study your riding carefully.
And don't be so sure about the NDP taking Quebec. As the expression goes, the only real polls are the results on election day. My prediction is that the NDP's growth is just an adjustment of lefty votes, but they're not taking much away from the Cons, and little from the Bloc. It's not going to make much difference to the Bloc (and in any case, I'm not anti-Bloc) and it's going to make NO difference to the Conservative outcome, which is my one and only concern.
[Don't worry, I'm aware of the party's stances on things, and I fall under Liberal politically. But I also still haven't regained a lot of trust of the Libs, so I'm not averse to any other Left party like the NDP or Bloc. That's why I said I'm fine with any Lefty party.]
I see what you say about strategic voting. Understandable, considering your potential candidate is a douche. It was this cbc video that sold me on the benefits of non-strategic voting in this election. Just my 2 cents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynFHbFkz34s
Some countries use only a semi first-past-the-post system -- that's what I wish we had.
I won't vote for the NDP candidate Alain Ackad, I have no impression of him, his bio says nothing interesting to me: "founded opinionmontreal.com, a website designed to give Montrealers a place to voice their opinions" Scintillating. The site doesn't even load.
I've always liked Francis Scarpaleggia, and I've read his full speech about the marriage thing, it's very well thought out and intelligent, even if I don't agree with it. So I would prefer to vote for him, and then write to him on that issue. I think that's a more engaged version of democracy than just not voting for him based on that sole issue.
I prefer to vote for a candidate than the party, though in the case of Harper I hate him enough to vote AGAINST a party/leader. And I felt this way long before the election came up. Serious detest the "Harper government" as he likes to be called.
I'm not a ra-ra Layton fan though. Interesting how he just came out in stronger support of Bill 101, now that his popularity in Quebec is surging, when he refused to do so at the debates.
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