Young John Last, our grandson (age 19) is making ripples, rather than waves, in his campaign to be elected mayor of Kingston (pop 135,000) a university city about 250Km
southwest of Ottawa. Kingston is home to the venerable and prestigious Queen's University, the Royal Military College, miscellaneous light industries; tourism, farming etc also contribute to its economic base. John's campaign is mainly internet-based (he can't afford lawn signs, hire of assembly halls, etc), and hasn't got a team for door-to-door campaigning: he has no moneyed special interest backers. If I've got the right URL, you can see his picture and an article about him at
http://www.ktw.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2780352 (I tried unsuccessfully to upload a very good photo of John that heads this article, but the file format would not upload; however you can see it- and read the article - if you copy and paste the URL above into your browser).
There are various other links and a website, http://www.runthistown.ca/
There were originally four of them involved in this but it seems to have
narrowed down now to John. It would be a hoot if he were to win, which in this time of political volatility isn't entirely impossible.It's valuable experience for his future career, no matter what the outcome.
He has lived in Kingston about half of his life. His campaign got a big boost this week when he was endorsed by the Queen's University student newspaper. Their editorial staff interviewed all the candidates, asked each of them three leading questions, said his responses were the best, most impressive of all the candidates. You can see this editorial at http://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2010-10-22/editorials/last-doesnt-lack-lustre/ where it appears with a cartoon that is quite a good likeness.
The election is on Monday October 25. We will be awaiting the outcome with keen interest
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