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 Posted: Fri 21:00, 30 Aug 2013 Post subject: Walking the talk |
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Walking the talk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Eight pounds lost, two dog bites bandaged and countless cups of tea sipped. After a 24-day campaign,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the mayoral candidates for the Town of Westville are ready to kick off their shoes and put their feet up.
And for good reason,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Westville has some of the longest roads in the county. Ninety-six kilometres of road to be exact,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
To see just how far the three men running for mayor walked during door-to-door campaigning, The News provided them with pedometers. All together, they walked 421, 860 steps.
"To tell you the truth, I was ready to throw in the towel last week," says Gerald Muir. "The first couple weeks were rough. But I got the hang of it and quickly learned never to interrupt people when their soap opera is on or when they are playing TV bingo."
Muir,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who suffers from arthritis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], says he didn't anticipate the physical demand that comes with campaigning. Most of the time, he drove his car from house to house,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which is why he says he has not racked up the step mileage as the other candidates.
So far,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Muir has gone down two notches on his belt. And he isn't the only one. Tom O'Brien says he lost eight pounds on the campaign diet.
"I was walking two miles a day before this started and I thought that would get me ready,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Now I am averaging five to six miles a day,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. It's tough."
What is proving to be even tougher are the people and pets the candidates meet along the way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. O'Brien has been bit twice by a dog while campaigning in his neighbourhood,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Muir has had a run in with a few impatient voters. And Roger MacKay has had to sit through his fair share of cups of tea with over-hospitable voters,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"I would say 96 per cent of the people I come across are very supportive," says MacKay. "But there are always a few who,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], well lets just say are not so pleasant."
Maintaining campaign signs is also a task for Westville's future mayor. All three say they have had to replace signs after kids knocked them down,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
A new sign does not come cheap. O'Brien says the sign retails at $5 to $6 and the stake is roughly 75 cents. Multiply that by the dozens of signs each candidate has erected around town.
"The most frustrating part is seeing my pamphlets in the garbage bin at the post office," says O'Brien. "You put all that work into making it and people throw it out without looking at it."相关的主题文章：
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