Yesterday Andrew McFadyen came to town, and Kim Rudd must have passed him on County Rd 29 as she went out to Warkworth, (one of Andrew's home bases) to drink wine. But I went to see Andrew, Kim can wait until she does Cobourg on Saturday.

In a celebration of the past Andrew introduced himself to many of his supporters at the Best Western at 5pm. Speaking for nine minutes, after an hour of mingling, he paid homage to the party elders, attacked the sitting government and spoke about why he was running to be the candidate.

Introduced by the Rt Hon Christine Stewart, who started her address with, "All Liberals are looking forward to an election" she spoke about Andrew in the most glowing of terms. Andrew then thanked all of his predecessors profusely , praising Paul Macklin, but avoided sanctifying him, praised his campaign team for five months of hard work and then pointed out to the seventy-five or so party faithful that the sitting government of Mr Harper, represented by Rick Norlock, has been unresponsive to the needs of the Riding and must be changed. He then explained his passion for the position by explaining some of his childhood, experienced under the Harris Tories, had made him much stronger and independent - he was raised in a one-parent family home by a mother on disability. Consequently he had to work eight hour shifts at the age of fourteen. As he implied that the Harper cons are the same as the Harrisites, he obviously doesn't want any part of that kind of society and "wants to be an advocate for your needs."

My impressions of the event are simple, with the number of people, in the audience, under the age of sixty able to be counted on one hand Andrew had better hope that they get a quick election, some of them might not make it. A local Liberal mentioned to me that about half the audience was from out of town and I didn't recognise too many local folks either. Andrew scores highly for motivation and sincerity as well as being well connected with the party brass. So first impressions make him stand out as a capable candidate. But as another local Lib said, "We are so lucky to have three good candidates running." My money is still on who has signed up the most - it's a numbers game as many minds were not changed by this event.

Congratulations to the readers, you made yesterday the most active of all pages in our history. Without releasing actual numbers, they would scare the opposition, the discussion about the cheeky chappy and the zealous cop, who happened to be female, released the opinion dogs and drove up the hits.