Garth Turner was sure he was going to be elected yesterday. At least, that was the message he was putting out with his bravado about being the ‘voice of Halton’ and how he would stand up to Ottawa, whatever it is that means.
But his campaign was fraught with gaffes and petty rhetoric. First, he tried to hoodwink CPAC by having them follow him while he did some door knocking that just happened to be at the door of his campaign manager’s son. Then, there was the whole incident with Susan Ormiston at the CBC.
Garth went on to have his local pollster ask him a loaded question on a CTV morning show so he could try to skewer his Conservative Party opponent, and I personally suspect he might have had something to do with the ‘anonymous’ letter some constituents received claiming to be from “concerned conservatives” urging them to vote for Garth.
I reported, and Steve Janke posted pics of, how Garth’s campaign was putting up election signs within feet of Lisa Raitt’s signs to block them from view.
In the end it looks like Halton has rebuffed Mr. Turners tactics.
According to Elections Canada, the results for Halton are as follows:
| Green Party | Amy Collard | 4,872 | 7.0 |  |
| Conservative | Lisa Raitt | 32,916 | 47.4 | |
| Christian Heritage Party | Tony Rodrigues | 337 | 0.5 | |
| Liberal | Garth Turner | 25,136 | 36.2 | |
| NDP-New Democratic Party | Rob Wagner | 6,118 | 8.8 | |
Lisa Raitt won handily, by over 7,000 votes.
Garth has parked his blog – apparently he’ll start posting again after October 29th. One wonders if he’ll continue to talk about himself in the third person.
Congrats to Lisa, she deserved to win.
- Rafael.
BWWWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
about time!
Argus
October 15th, 2008