Election

Bleah.

At the provincial level, we have:

• The Liberals.  They broke a lot of promises last time.  Many of their promises I thought unkeepable to begin with.  This is behaviour that I despise.
• The Conservatives.  Last time they were in power, they kept many of their promises... in a deal-with-the-devil, wish-from-an-evil-genie sense, where the actual results were disastrously bad.  What they promised in terms of results didn't happen, and was pretty much guaranteed not to happen based on any sane kind of analysis.
• The NDP.  Lately they've been cozying up to the Conservatives, in an effort to drag down the Liberals, and recently they've been taking pot-shots at the Green Party.
• The Greens, and several much less significant organizations, including some more or less scary wingnuts.

I detest the Conservatives rather more strongly than I detest the Liberals.  Their honesty levels seem to be comparable; the Conservatives have a history of being much more destructive (and self-serving, in terms of sending out lots of advertising at public expense to tell us how wonderful everything was, rather than spending the money to actually improve things).

I might be inclined to vote for the Greens.

Except that locally, it's expected to be a close race between:

• Conservative Mike Patton.  He padded his "resume" and lied while trying to spin the resulting bad publicity.  He lied about the non-political, non-campaign appearance of incumbent MPP Jim Watson, in his official capacity as Minister of Health Promotion, at a local school on the day that the election writ was dropped.
• Liberal Jim Watson.  He's had considerable experience: as a city councillor, as Mayor of Nepean, etc.  He's got a record of doing good work.

Until this evening, I thought I knew who I would be voting for.  That's when I got home and found that Watson's campaign office had used an automated system to leave telephone spam on my answering machine.  Actually, just half a message; it didn't even wait for my "Greetings..." outgoing message to stop before beginning its blather.  I hate spam, telephone, street, and otherwise.

Bleah.