Pick Your Poison

Tom Westgard is really laying into some of the Gordon supporters and claiming there's supposed to be a poll out that shows Don is trailing. However Tom Mannis suggests the opposite is true.

Someone show me the POLL!!!!

It appears that the heat of the runoff is creating a level of meltdown across the board, and it would appear to include Westie. He doesn't like to be quoted out of context -- no one does that I know -- and he is quite certain that some of the bloggers have missed his main point:

I have been consistent in saying that Don Gordon would be far WORSE than Joe Moore.

I think I got that point. Specifically:

I get the distinct feeling that, at the core, Moore is the lesser of two evils in Tom's view.

Thanks for the confirmation Tom. Yet, despite all Tom W has to say, I still cannot get behind Moore for the reasons I gave before. Let me add another;

People facing cancer, or any serious illness, are faced with a choice -- do nothing or do something and hope that the chosen something will do the trick. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. I just watched my Texas uncle go through this process and it looks like he'll survive. My mother, on the other hand, may have died prematurely because the cure really was worse than the disease, or so it appears. In both cases, they made the best choice they could based on the available facts and their personal situations. It was crunch time and no delay possible.

I perceive Moore as the equivalent of a political cancer in this ward. I spent part of this evening talking with a man who voted for Moore in February, but noted that all the places he used to rent are now condos, and he can't afford them. Remember the report on the reduction in rental stock in RP? On whose watch did that occur? Who was the most harmed by that? What does that do to RP's famed diversity? I won't go over the examples of Joe's poor political judgement coupled to an absence of ethics. They are well known.

He is part of the machine and if we are not ready to put a spanner in the machine's works, when will we be ready? And will it be any easier in 4 years? Moore's wake-up call is the runoff. He found out he was vulnerable after all, and he needs Jim G close to him to at least give the illusion of a humbled politician who cares about his constituents. I don't think Joe will change. Can he? Sure. Will he? Not holding my breath on that one. Can I afford to support a politician whose primary interest is his political career, and not the ward? No. He may yet pull this off and get re-elected. But I can't support him for re-election and I want to do something about that.

Maybe it won't work and I'll regret it later. But it beats standing by and doing nothing, or hoping Joe will have a personal "come to Jesus" experience and totally change. Don Gordon is not a saint, but I don't think he is the devil incarnate. I'll take my chances on doing something.