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Candidates now selected in Kingston and the Islands

Author: John Olson (Non-Partisan)

16 Sep

The NDP has selected former city councillor Â Rick Downes as candidate. Downes ran in the 2007 provincial election.Â Downes was a three-term city councillor for King’s Town district before coming within 700 votes of Mayor in 2006. In 2007 he was the provincial NDP candidate for Kingston & the Islands New Democrats, winning 22% of the vote.Â The party is asking people to re-use signs from the 2007 campaign. Â Eric Walton is the Green Party candidate and party signs are up. From 1986 to 1994Â WaltonÂ was a founding member and the part-time agency director of the Kingston Environmental Action Project (KEAP).Â Â HeÂ is the Green Party of Canada shadow cabinetÂ critic/advocate for international affairs.Â Â Liberal speaker of the house Peter Â Milliken will face off this year against Brian Abrams, a Kingston lawyer with Templeman Menninga who spent 18 years as an RCMP officer before being called to the bar. According to a Milliken news release “Abrams represents fresh blood for the local Tories, and hopes to tap into the Red Tory sentiment that made Kingston a federal Conservative stronghold in the 1970s and 1980s, in the days of Flora MacDonald.”

Filed under: Eastern Ontario, John Olson (Non-Partisan), Nominations, Ontario

7 Responses for "Candidates now selected in Kingston and the Islands"

Louise September 16th, 2008 at 6:27 am 1
Apparently, all the candidates in Kingston and the Islands except for CPC’s Brian Abrams have committed to not putting up signs on public property.
Gareth September 16th, 2008 at 8:03 am 2
Louise is very mistaken. Just because you don’t see many Liberal signs doesn’t mean he has agreed to put them only on private property. There are a few Liberal signs on Public property you just have to look hard to find them. The Greens have very few signs to start with so they won’t be on Public property and the NDP have no signs printed at this time.
John Olson September 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm 3
There are Conservative signs everywhere. Along one road they seem to be spaced every 20 metres. Overkill?
Devin September 16th, 2008 at 5:50 pm 4
The Conservative signs are definately overkill. I think its ridiculous.
Gordo September 17th, 2008 at 3:04 am 5
Gareth, the NDP are limiting the placement of signs on public property: just a few larger signs at key intersections. Rick’s provincial campaign signs are being re-used as well. That should satisfy the Greens.

ToJo, they’re everywhere: Centennial Drive from Taylor-Kidd to Bath, Bath from Queen Mary to Sir John A, etc.
Fraser September 17th, 2008 at 4:43 am 6
The CPC have lots of signs on public property, but a drive around the west end shows they have even more on public property. By their claim, close to 1,000 up, and I don’t find this too hard to believe.
And I have seen a few Liberal signs on public property, but the Milliken campaign doesn’t appear to be up and running at all yet.
Gareth September 18th, 2008 at 7:29 am 7
The CPC sign campaign just shows that they were ready for the writ drop and are very well organized. The lack of Milliken signs show that he expects to get re-elected and doesn’t need a well oiled machine to do so. The interesting thing is that it was this kind of complacency that felled Flora in 1988- will it happen again?

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