Campaigning in the home stretch

“It’s always nice to meet the people and let them know who you are and what you stand for.”

Wassil said he’s lived in the Prince Albert area his whole life so he’s not a stranger in the community.

The Canadian Action Party’s Craig Batley said he thinks voters have been very receptive to his campaigning, despite some of his campaign signs going missing.

“It’s going quite well … I’m getting to meet a lot of people, giving out some vital information that people need to know,” said Batley.

Myk Brazier, the Green Party’s candidate in the Prince Albert riding said in this last week he’s just going to keep getting out there and talking to the people.

“Everywhere I go people are talking about the election and whenever I get a chance I talk with them and we share our opinions and talk about the issues,” Brazier said.

Valerie Mushinski, NDP candidate and Conservative Party candidate and incumbent Conservative Randy Hoback are both going to be criss-crossing the riding for the last week getting out to all the events and people they can.

“The last week is always a little extra busy,” said Mushinski.

Mushinski said she’ll be making appearances at events in places around the riding: Melfort, Muskoday First Nation, Tisdale, Nipawin and Prince Albert.

Hoback will be travelling as well. He said he’s been trying to get to as many events as he can to meet the voters.

“When you have a large area as this it’s hard to door knock every house so you have to look at other opportunities to get out and reach and talk to people and that’s what we’ve been doing,” Hoback said.

All candidates stressed how important voting is and encourage everyone to cast their ballot on Election Day.

Hoback said the importance of voting is especially evident right now.

“It is an honour to get out and vote, when you look around the world and see what’s going on in, for example, Syria or in Libya and places like that, where people are giving up their lives so their kids can have the right to vote, I just encourage everybody to get out and vote.”

Batley, Wassil and Braizer will be watching the results at home on May 2 — Brazier said he will be “rocking the vote” with an election night rock ’n’ roll jam session.

Hoback said he has booked a room at the Travelodge to gather and watch the results on election night.

It has been a good campaign so far, “it’s been going fairly well I believe — no hiccups I can see, so we’re pretty confident,” he said.

Mushinski will be having a celebration at campaign headquarters on election night to watch the results. She said friends, volunteers and whoever wants to show up will be welcome.

Mushinski said she’s feeling positive and hopeful about the campaign, “I think the connections we’ve made are refreshing and lead me to be optimistic … when we go into things like this we have to be optimistic or else we wouldn’t be there.”

lschick@panow.com

by Lisa Schick

Campaigning in the home stretch

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