Home Stretch

We’re almost there. One last weekend of flyering and power-knocking to bring it home. At this point I’m feeling great about all the one-on-one contact this campaign has already made with Edmontonians in Ward 5.

I’m proud that we haven’t had to resort to robot dialers to reach people, and that we reached a majority of the households with volunteer power instead of Canada Post (who we employed in some of the exurbs and to reach the apartment dwellers). We’ve done so much more with so much less that the competition, and I’m incredibly proud of the hard work my volunteers and core team have put in. Nobody’s gotten paid in this campaign, self included, and that speaks to the selfless commitment and grassroots energy that can get us over the top.

Meanwhile, we didn’t snag Scott McKeen’s endorsement in this morning’s paper, but the honorable mention has adjectives as positive as anyone else in the story [link]:

Honourable mention: Don Iveson is a relative unknown, but has caught the attention of city hall insiders. I’ve had city council members quietly lobby me on Iveson’s behalf. Granted, most councillors would love to see Nickel humbled. But Iveson is legitimate. He’s poised, articulate and would make a fine city councillor.

It’s funny, McKeen and Paula Simons endorsed all nine incumbents who are running again. [EDIT: Simons endorsed Okelu and Sohi in Ward 6 over incumbent Thiele.] Makes it a little harder for credible challengers, but nobody said this would be easy. Still, I was happy to be described so approvingly in the horounable mention.