Nomination Crashers
Claire and I crashed the Toronto Centre Liberal nomination meeting tonight. (How amused was I to see at least four or five other people at the meeting who I know are supporting my campaign? We exchanged knowing glances and Sting-style nose-taps. I guess it was just the place to be.) As of right now neither the blogosphere nor Google News are reporting the results of the vote between Bob Rae and Meredith Cartwright.
In conversation with Rob Oliphant and Mathieu Chantelois (a former nomination contestant and once rumoured nomination contestant, respectively) I heard a funny story. First though, some background.
A few weeks back I was sitting outside of Starbucks on Church Street with some friends, people watching. One man walked by wearing a Michael Ignatieff scarf. “Hey look,” we said. “That guy’s wearing a Michael Ignatieff scarf.” Then, two minutes later, Bob Rae walked by. “Hey look,” we said. “There’s Bob Rae.” So I got up and introduced myself as the Green candidate, we chatted for a bit, and then he continued on his walk.
Now, back to the nomination meeting. When Rob introduced me to Mathieu as the nominated Green candidate, Mathieu said, “oh, so you work at Starbucks.” Not having the above story fresh in my mind, I thought he was making some strange joke. (“Because the Starbucks sign is green?,” I thought.) But yes, as it turns out there’s a story going around in the Rae campaign (Mathieu hadn’t heard this directly from Bob) that Bob met me when I sold him a coffee.
No? Ok, well, it was funny to me.
Chris Tindal » Nomination Crashers II said,
May 1, 2007 @ 10:15 pm
[...] Unfortunately, I also don’t have any (mildly) amusing stories like the one that came out of crashing the Liberal nomination meeting. The winner of the nomination was El-Farouk Khaki, who out-polled Sandra Gonzalez. I’ve gotten to know El-Farouk a little bit over the past few weeks (he and I, as well as our Conservative opponent Mark Warner, have been showing up at a lot of the same community events), and I really like him. He seems very genuine and friendly, and has an impressive resume and life story. Knowing the full list of “major party” candidates (in order of nomination: me, Green Party; Mark Warner, Conservative; Bob Rae, Liberal; El-Farouk Khaki, NDP), it’s now clear that Toronto Centre is going to be one of the most fun and exciting ridings to watch in the next campaign. [...]
Chris Tindal » Nomination Crashers III & IV said,
June 16, 2007 @ 8:32 pm
[...] sequels rarely do justice to the original. (Police Academy and Jaws, I’m looking at you.) Nomination Crashers and Nomination Crashers II were good enough, I probably shouldn’t push it. But, alas, here we [...]