Results tagged “stpauls2009byelection”

Neither Levy the person nor levy the sales tax was able to overturn the Liberal stronghold of St. Paul's yesterday, as voters selected Eric Hoskins (Liberal) to be their new MPP by a roomy 19% margin.

In the end, it wasn't even really close: Liberal Eric Hoskins has won the St. Paul's by-election with four thousand more votes than the next nearest competitor, Conservative Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy. We'll have deeper thoughts tomorrow.

When voters go to the ballot box in St. Paul’s on Thursday their choices will include the latest in a long line of Toronto Sun columnists who have attempted to parlay their print personas into elected office, usually for parties that have matched the paper’s right-wing tilt.

Take one pulls-no-punches City Hall columnist (er, make that Socialist Silly Hall columnist) and one philanthropically inclined but imported M.D., blend with a controversial sales tax adjustment, add a soupçon of Guinness Record–level persistence, and what do you get? One by-election, ready to serve on September 17. The electoral district of St. Paul's is, as you may have heard, in the midst of a by-election campaign, and because we are big fans of well-chosen representation we have created a central hub at which you can see all of our St. Paul's coverage in one place. It includes a profile of the riding and a map showing handy things like candidate campaign offices and advance polling locations. Read, be enlightened, and get ready to vote!

Sue Ann Levy really doesn’t like the Liberals' proposed Harmonized Sales Tax.