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June 05, 2006
Hail to the bus driver!

Federal Liberal leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy has found a roadie for his campaign. According to our operatives, Jonathan Moser - who was the national tour director for the Grits in the 2006 election - will be doing the same job for the former Ontario education minister. Mr. Moser, who managed Paul Martin's leadership campaign tour in British Columbia, also ran unsuccessfully as the Liberal's Kamloops candidate in 2000. His resume includes a stint as a special assistant to Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano. And he served as Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh's parliamentary affairs director before becoming a senior special assistant to Prime Minister Martin.

Posted by Sean Holman at 06:38 PM
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Bad move there.

Ties to the old Martin Machine.

Seems to be stained goods.

More Martinities getting involved. Kennedy should
find new talent.

Let some new people have a go at that sort of thing for a change.

Moser's obviously done it before. So there's no need to pay him to repeat the act.

Posted by Peter Delany on June 5, 2006 09:39 PM

All I know is that I have seen his work before and he is the best in the business and Kennedy's team is lucky to have someone like this - I am biased though because I also think he's hot!!

Posted by Citty Cat on June 6, 2006 07:23 AM

Almost everyone supported Martin in the last leadership. If you argue that Kennedy shouldn't have any of them on his team, you are asking him to shut out 90% of the party.

Posted by observer on June 6, 2006 07:52 AM

Jonny Mo is one of the best. Screw-ups on the road are lethal to campaigns. He doesn't make them.

Posted by goodforJMo on June 6, 2006 09:03 AM

Well if that's the case maybe they should have had Jonny Mo in Winnipeg before holding an event at "Baked Expectations."

Posted by JonnyMoAgain? on June 6, 2006 09:46 AM

Jon Moser did a phenomenal job with Martins tour he is a big coup for the Kennedy campaign. Some people need to realise thats its no longer martin against chretien. The Kennedy campaign was right in taking Moser based on his impeccable tour organisation experience. Every leadership campaign has someone who supported Paul Martin because he was supported by 90% of the party, lets not forget that.

Posted by Big Fan on June 6, 2006 10:45 AM

"Some people need to realise thats its no longer martin against chretien."

But then this same person said...

"Every leadership campaign has someone who supported Paul Martin because he was supported by 90% of the party, lets not forget that."

Since the federal Liberal Party is supposed to
be evolving into something new, why would we
want to keep remembering the Martin days and the
self-imporantant people who participated in his
campaign and ran his government.

Time for new people to learn how to do things.

Posted by Ken Branson on June 6, 2006 01:18 PM

Jon Moser IS hot. AND he puts out!!!

Posted by Timmy on June 6, 2006 02:02 PM

MoMo is the man for the job. Looks like the Kennedy people are picking up steam!

Posted by MoMoTour on June 6, 2006 02:21 PM

"MoMo is the man for the job. Looks like the Kennedy people are picking up steam!"

Great, just what the party needs. A reincarnation of Martinites.

As for tour organisation experience, big deal.

Any first year student of logistics or someone who has a sharp sense of logistics can do that stuff. Not hard to do.

Go for something new. Go Iggy.

Posted by Harold Jensen on June 6, 2006 04:22 PM

Moser ran for office in Kamloops in the 1997 Federal election? I heard his campaign didn't go so well for the Liberals.

Posted by no to MOJO on June 6, 2006 05:41 PM

I have to question the remark about the "Baked Expectations" event that Kennedy held in Winnipeg and why a good road manager would have prevented it. It is a long standing Winnipeg landmark and bakery in the heart of the city that nearly ever Winnipeger is more than famalier with.

Posted by manitobaliberal on June 6, 2006 06:25 PM

Actually, if truth be told, Moser ran for the Liberals in Kamloops in 2000 - needless to say, the Liberals were a disaster for him.

Anyone who thinks running a national tour is easy knows nothing about politics. Don't take my word for it, ask Bob Stanfield of football dropping fame,(ok he's dead, i'm sorry) or Bob Dole about how falling through an improperly secured bannister helped him look like an incompetent old man Vs Clinton in 96. Tour is what sets the images that form the opinions of the electorate. It helps a campaign stay on message. Successful tours are run by hardened professionals. Get it right and more often than not, you win, fail and you lose.

Posted by Mimi on June 6, 2006 06:33 PM

Let's not forget that Iggy is a creation of the Martin people. They gave him a keynote platform to speak at the last Liberal convention, appointed him a candidate, thus bypassing the nomination process ( he never would have been a candidate otherwise)and then spent a month holding his campaign together while local ukrainian voters in his riding screamed for his head on account of some crazy musings he made while at havard.I cannot think of a candidate in this race who has had more hand holding from the "Martin people" than Iggy.

Posted by harold on June 6, 2006 06:58 PM

Which one of these is not like the other?

Liberal Candidate Kamloops 1997: 31.8%
Jonathan Moser, Kamloops 2000: 15.6%
Liberal Candidate Kamloops 2004: 28.25%

What a catch.

Posted by The Kamloops Kid on June 7, 2006 08:57 AM

"Some people need to realise thats its no longer martin against chretien."

A good point, in that all Liberals need to realize that there is only one candidate in this leadership race. His or her name is as yet unknown. It's the one who can somehow invent enough individual donors to pay off the party's mountainous debt.

Posted by Budd Campbell on June 7, 2006 10:12 AM




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