The Sacrificial Lamb
December 31, 2021
The other day, I got an email in my inbox from city councilor Sal Sorrento, someone who I’ve met a couple of times. But the subject matter wasn’t anything to do with city business, nor was it personal. It was to announce the launch of his campaign to become our next MPP. He is, of course, assuming that there will be another election and that Doug “Closed for Business” Ford won’t just rule by decree indefinitely.
You see, Sorrento has apparently accepted the nomination to be the Doug Ford Party (formerly the Ontario PC Party) candidate here in St. Catharines. In the email, he thanks us for our support and for putting the trust in him as the candidate. As if it was a highly-sought-after position he had to compete for. I’m genuinely surprised anyone stepped forward at all. No doubt he had to be bribed by the party to be the sacrificial lamb to carry the Great Leader’s banner. Expect him to be appointed to some cushy provincial job soon after the election, much like what happened with the late Sandie Bellows.
Sorrento will end up earning every dime of that money when he goes knocking on doors. Because he’s going to be treated to one hell of a lot of verbal abuse. “Working Hard, for Hard Working People” is the slogan he’s using, but no premier in this country’s history has worked harder to crush the hard working people that form the backbone of his own party. Sorrento is right when he says we need representation that will bring money and jobs back to St. Catharines. Money and jobs that have disappeared thanks to Ford’s illegal authoritarian rule.
In the email, he said he’s ready to end 50 years of NDP and Liberal representation in this city. But a vote for him is, in effect, a vote for more of the same. Even before the outbreak of war, his party has been pretty much indistinguishable from the radical far-left McGuinty-Wynne Liberals they replaced. His own personal record at City Hall says as much.
Like all politicians, he’s also looking for money. In order to run a successful campaign we need funds for signs, advertisements and an office, he says. But he fails to mention that I’ve already generously contributed to his campaign. Involuntarily, of course, as the Doug Ford Party is helping themselves to millions from the pockets of taxpayers and hard working people he, not a virus, so cruelly put out of work. This after Ford personally campaigned against a similar scheme his fellow Liberal Wynne brought in.
Good luck, Sal. You’re going to need it. Because I’m not the only soon-to-be-ex-party member who would sooner rip his ballot in half than vote for you.
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