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[waterspyder]

I hate the media sometimes. I really do.

We're coming up to an election in Ottawa, and you'd think we only had 3 candidates.

And if by 3, you meant 7, then you'd be right. But you wouldn't know that because newspapers have no obligation to present an accurate representation of the facts.

Just because I like people to make informed decisions, here are your mayoral candidates in alphabetical order.

Piotr ANWEILER - http://www.anweiler.ca/
Bob CHIARELLI - http://bobchiarelli.com/
Robert LARTER - erm, he moved and left no forwarding address and no website...
Alex MUNTER - http://www.alexmunter.ca/
Larry O'BRIEN - http://larryformayor.ca
Barkley POLLOCK - http://www.myspace.com/barkleypollockformayor
Jane SCHARF - http://www.takebackcityhall.info/ 

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Now, the *important* part of the exercise is to go back and count how many *real* candidates there are.

(For those playing along at home, ".info", "myspace.com", and "cannot be located" are hints. As are the inability to speak clear English or French, and the use of dozens of blogspot.com accounts to provide your "platform".)

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I think the blogspot guy is being considered a real candidate...

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

Well, outside of the big three, Blogspot dude is the one who looks most credible. Though he does have quite a few pipe dreams.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I thought blogspot guy was one of the big three.

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

The big three are Chiarelli, Munter and O'Brien. Anweiler (the Blogspot dude) is the most acceptable of the non-big-three.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Technicaly neither of them are using blogspot as their main platform page, but at least Anweiler is using a (if badly designed) real webpage, O'Brien is using the blog that's full of typos.

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

I see one typo.

This blog-style thing is new, though, so he's still probably working out the kinks.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Well, he also has numerous editing marks left in his bio, not to mention that he never actualy writes out his platform in one place.