Arriving at the Essex Street campaign office for James Gordon, the
candidate takes a minute to show my around his digs. He leads me to the
back and says you'll like this. He opens the door to a large backroom
where in one corner there's a stack of campaign signs, and in the other a
drum kit and amps. It seems that you can take the boy out of the band,
as it were, but then he brings the band with him onto the campaign
trail.The 2014 campaign represents the second time that Gordon
has run provincially....
Arriving at the Essex Street campaign office for James Gordon, the
candidate takes a minute to show my around his digs. He leads me to the
back and says you'll like this. He opens the door to a large backroom
where in one corner there's a stack of campaign signs, and in the other a
drum kit and amps. It seems that you can take the boy out of the band,
as it were, but then he brings the band with him onto the campaign
trail.
The 2014 campaign represents the second time that Gordon
has run provincially. In 2011, Gordon came within 802 votes of second
place candidate Greg Schirk. Combined with a fairly good tailwind for
the NDP from local by-election victories province-wide, and the party
must think that they have a decent shot at winning Guelph. Certainly,
Gordon has both the name cache and the politics to make it happen.
In
my interview with James Gordon, we talked about the NDP platform, the
lack of environmental discussion in this election, running against high
profile politicians and rumors of internal strife in the NDP. So without
further ado, let's get in to the Politicast...
You can stream the episode here, or download it from the source here.
The theme music for Guelph Politicast is "Volksing Ferretismico" by Goto80 and the Uwe Schenk Band from Silent Movie Pianos 1 - Action and Marches.
And as with previous podcasts featuring provincial election
candidates, there's a video segment. Find out what it means to James
Gordon here.
The music used in the "What does it mean
to you to represent the people of Guelph at Queen's Park?" video
segment is "Good to Go" by Josh Woodward from The Simple Life Pt 2 available on freemusicarchive.org.
For more information on Guelph candidates, go to Elections Ontario's website wemakevotingeasy.ca.
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