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wmale20
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posted 30 August 2008 06:38 PM
More than a year after he announced his retirement, Elmwood-Transcona MP Bill Blaikie will pass his mantle to another New Democrat next weekend as the party gathers to nominate its candidate in the looming federal election.Topping the three-person ticket is Elmwood MLA Jim Maloway, who finally made it official Friday and confirmed his intention to leave provincial politics and make a bid for a seat in Ottawa. Of the approximately 1,000 NDP members in the riding, Maloway says he's sewn up about 750. But rival Lorene Mahoney, a nurse and longtime party volunteer, said she has been campaigning for more than a year and Maloway doesn't have a lock on the nomination. "There are a lot of undecided voters," she said. The third candidate vying for the NDP nomination, Canadian Union of Public Employees Manitoba president Kevin Rebeck, couldn't be reached for comment. Maloway, a maverick backbencher in Premier Gary Doer's government, has been elected seven times as the MLA for Elmwood, most recently in May 2007. "I've been through a lot of elections and sometimes things can turn real weird on you," Maloway said. "So on that basis, you want to have someone with a proven track record who can organize and win elections." If Maloway wins the nomination, he's bound by law to resign as MLA for Elmwood, which triggers a byelection. Doer controls the timing of byelections and he's traditionally been fairly quick to call them. Blaikie, the party's elder statesmen, will be the featured speaker at the nom inating meeting, slated for the evening of Sept. 7 at the Canad Inns Club Regent Hotel. Blaikie has represented http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/local/story/4220147p-4813497c.html Maloway seeks nod to run in Transcona By: Mary Agnes Welch Updated: August 30 at 12:35 AM CDT the eastern corner of Winnipeg for nearly 30 years and is the deputy speaker of the House of Commons.
Meanwhile, the Tories are grappling with whether to hold a nomination meeting in Elmwood-Transcona or appoint what several in the party claim is a star candidate whose name is familiar to all Manitobans. The Tories have tried to hold nomination meetings twice with no success. The Liberals have yet to name or nominate a candidate. maryagnes.welch@freepress.mb.ca
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wmale20
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posted 30 August 2008 06:40 PM
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/local/story/4220147p-4813497c.html Maloway seeks nod to run in Transcona
By: Mary Agnes Welch Updated: August 30 at 12:35 AM CDT quote: Originally posted by wmale20: More than a year after he announced his retirement, Elmwood-Transcona MP Bill Blaikie will pass his mantle to another New Democrat next weekend as the party gathers to nominate its candidate in the looming federal election.Topping the three-person ticket is Elmwood MLA Jim Maloway, who finally made it official Friday and confirmed his intention to leave provincial politics and make a bid for a seat in Ottawa. Of the approximately 1,000 NDP members in the riding, Maloway says he's sewn up about 750. But rival Lorene Mahoney, a nurse and longtime party volunteer, said she has been campaigning for more than a year and Maloway doesn't have a lock on the nomination. "There are a lot of undecided voters," she said. The third candidate vying for the NDP nomination, Canadian Union of Public Employees Manitoba president Kevin Rebeck, couldn't be reached for comment. Maloway, a maverick backbencher in Premier Gary Doer's government, has been elected seven times as the MLA for Elmwood, most recently in May 2007. "I've been through a lot of elections and sometimes things can turn real weird on you," Maloway said. "So on that basis, you want to have someone with a proven track record who can organize and win elections." If Maloway wins the nomination, he's bound by law to resign as MLA for Elmwood, which triggers a byelection. Doer controls the timing of byelections and he's traditionally been fairly quick to call them. Blaikie, the party's elder statesmen, will be the featured speaker at the nom inating meeting, slated for the evening of Sept. 7 at the Canad Inns Club Regent Hotel. Blaikie has represented the eastern corner of Winnipeg for nearly 30 years and is the deputy speaker of the House of Commons. Meanwhile, the Tories are grappling with whether to hold a nomination meeting in Elmwood-Transcona or appoint what several in the party claim is a star candidate whose name is familiar to all Manitobans. The Tories have tried to hold nomination meetings twice with no success. The Liberals have yet to name or nominate a candidate. maryagnes.welch@freepress.mb.ca
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St. Paul's Progressive
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posted 08 September 2008 07:41 AM
quote: Originally posted by ghoris: As someone posted on previous thread, Jim Maloway is the Tony Ruprecht of Manitoba politics.The demographics suggest a safe NDP seat, but the Tories scored a surprisingly healthy 32% last time while Blaikie benefitted from a collapse in the Liberal vote. Make no mistake, even with a mediocre candidate like Maloway, the NDP would be the odds-on favourite to win. But I expect a closer result than last time.
Bill Blaikie was my favourite MP. I hope this Maloway isn't anything like Tony Ruprecht!
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genstrike
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posted 08 September 2008 09:38 AM
quote: Originally posted by jas:
Unfortunately, I think that's often how Winnipeggers vote. Mayor Sam Katz, for example. Political credentials: owner of a baseball team. There's a bit of that old-style, small-town boosterism still detectable in Winnipeg. It's charming until you see it affecting civic policy and direction. [ 08 September 2008: Message edited by: jas ]
Yeah, I agree with you here. That is basically the only way you explain Sam Katz, or why the Tories are going for Steen in Transcona (even though he doesn't live there) and Kennerd in Winnipeg South Center. It also explains the whole Jets (non)issue last provincial election. But fortunately Transcona is a pretty safe riding and Maloway has managed to get over 60% in Elmlwood in the last 3 provincial elections, so I wouldn't worry too much about Steen taking it. The one to really watch in Manitoba is going to be Churchill (and to a lesser extent some of the Lib-Con races in the southern half ow Winnipeg)
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ghoris
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posted 02 November 2008 08:47 PM
quote: Originally posted by genstrike: But fortunately Transcona is a pretty safe riding
Not anymore, it would seem. NDP 14,355 45.8% (-5.0) CPC 12,776 40.7% (+8.6) What I've heard from folks back home who live in the riding is that although Steen had a lot of name recognition, most people felt he was a pretty weak candidate. However, Maloway was also regarded as pretty mediocre. I have heard from some reasonably reliable sources that there was a lot of grumbling among NDP/Blaikie supporters in the Transcona part of the riding, and a lot of them sat this one out, which could explain the closeness of the result. I have yet to see a poll-by-poll breakdown, but I'd wager dollars to donuts that Maloway did well in the western part of the riding but Steen won Transcona. In some sense, both parties suffered from the weakness of their respective candidates. I think that if Linda West had run again for the Tories she would have won. Similarly, I think if the NDP had nominated a better candidate than Maloway, the result would not have been as close.
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ghoris
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posted 05 November 2008 01:40 PM
quote: Originally posted by Stockholm: While its true that the NDP won Selkirk off and on in the 60s and 70s - in those days the seat included a big chunk of northeastern Winnipeg that is now Elmwood-Transcona.
Selkirk has never, to my knowledge, included Elmwood, East Kildonan or Transcona (the present day Elmwood-Transcona). It did include North Kildonan (the southeastern quadrant of present-day Kildonan-St.Paul) in the 60s and 70s. NK was then included with Elmwood, Transcona and EK from 1979 to 1984 in Bill Blaikie's old Winnipeg-Bird's Hill seat, then it was lumped back in with Selkirk again in the 1988 and 1993 elections as Selkirk-Red River until it was spun off again in 1997 into what is basically the current Kildonan-St. Paul seat. quote: The NDP was never competitive in west Winnipeg - that was always true blue Dan McKenzie country.
Au contraire. Cyril Keeper won Winnipeg-St. James in 1980 and the NDP finished a close second in 1979 and in 1984. Mackenzie's Winnipeg Assiniboine seat was the southern half of what is today Charleswood-St. James-Assinobine and the western half of Winnipeg South Centre, ie Charleswood, Tuxedo and River Heights. You're right that the NDP has never been competitive there, but it was won St. Charles, St. James-Assiniboia, Kirkfield Park and Westwood federally in the past (and now holds all the provincial seats in that area). [ 05 November 2008: Message edited by: ghoris ]
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