{"id":566,"date":"2005-12-16T03:10:52-05:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T08:10:52+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/16\/london-fanshawe-candidates"},"modified":"2005-12-16T03:10:52-05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T08:10:52+00:00","slug":"london-fanshawe-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/16\/london-fanshawe-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"London-Fanshawe&nbsp;candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>I&#8217;m not sure how voters in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canadavotes\/riding\/149\/\">London-Fanshawe riding<\/a> will decide between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndplondonfanshawe.ca\/\">Irene Mathyssen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenpearson.ca\/\">Glen Pearson<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve met Pearson and his wife, Jane Roy, and I have a lot of respect for their work in the community and in Africa; they&#8217;re all-round good people, with a strong sense of what is morally correct and the courage to act on that conviction.  If I lived in the riding, I&#8217;m pretty sure my ballot would be cast for Pearson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That being said, I know former <abbr title=\"Member of Provincial Parliament\">MPP<\/abbr> Mathyssen only by reputation, but it&#8217;s a good one.  I&#8217;d definitely like to see a more experienced NDP candidate in my own riding, and Mathyssen would have made it a tough three-way race between her, incumbent (and cabinet minister) Joe Fontana, and John Mazzilli (who&#8217;s also an import from London-Fanshawe).  As suggested by my <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/16\/letter-to-candidates\">letter to the candidates<\/a>, though, I&#8217;m going to need to do a pretty thorough evaluation before making up my mind for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canadavotes\/riding\/150\/\">London North Centre<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not sure how voters in the London-Fanshawe riding will decide between Irene Mathyssen and Glen Pearson. I&#8217;ve met Pearson and his wife, Jane Roy, and I have a lot of respect for their work in the community and in Africa; they&#8217;re all-round good people, with a strong sense of what is morally correct and&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,23,20,21,26,28,24],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}