It's the usual, I expect. Keeping focused on the big picture while attending to myriad little decisions. Office, phones, shirts, signs--all the accoutrements of a political campaign. All important in their way, but all taking valuable time and energy. Meanwhile we are getting ready to shape our direction as a province for the next four years, and those issues are much important, with an entirely different time scale. Choose orange shirts or white: in two months, what will it really matter? Choose this party or that on October 6, and shape life for families in Ontario for a generation or more. Forward to a greener, fairer society, or backward into a bigger and bigger gap between people's hopes and their actual chances for themselves and their children.
The campaign team is great. I'm just back from the most recent meeting, and the energy was exciting and humbling. As people find out about our campaign, the reactions have been enthusiastic. More and more people are offering their help, and the appetite for change is very strong, both in party circles and on the door step.
The littler decisions are getting made one by one (although you still have to wait to find out about those shirts, and what to wear to coordinate with them), and they pave the way for the team to get the New Democratic message of a society that includes everyone and looks out for everyone out there for people to see and hear.
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