MetroMan
Senior Member
Yes it is politically brilliant - but so is Stephen Harper
I find it completely disingenuous that she's on 'full' campaign mode, paying Warren Kinsella through funds of god knows from where, and flying around to do a 'book tour'.
1 - She's reintroducing herself to Toronto. People have short memories. She's preemptively setting the record straight on potential attacks from Ford (i.e. government housing myth).
2 - She's evening the playing field. Rob Ford has unlimited free press. It's negative but it puts his name in people's minds. Constantly. How do you compete with that? A book tour and intense speculation of will she/won't she? gives Olivia plenty of free press, but in her case it's a retrospect into her political and life achievements.
When she announces in February or March, she'll be starting from a place of name recognition and will have been answering hard questions about her life to reporters in dozens and dozens of interviews. She'll be prepared.
I've always been a fan of John Laschinger and was thrown off by his no-effort campaign for Pantalone. I don't blame him, he had little time to shift from Giambrone and a campaign is part management part candidate and Pantalone was not well prepared. What I've seen of Olivia's campaign has regained my admiration for the man. I'm looking forward to being inspired by and proud of Toronto again. Those of you whose hearts beat Toronto are going to shed a few tears of pride and happiness in our city. Just watch.