The Conservative party candidate in the Bonavista-Exploits riding is one Aaron Hynes.
He's an ex-navy type, with a bachelor of Arts degree from an unnamed university. Since leaving the navy, Aaron has worked extensively - as a staffer for Conservative members of parliament.
Now when a party has to start tossing political staffers into the fray, they are usually running low on alternatives. There's nothing wrong with staffers as candidates, but for the most part, most of them don't aspire to holding elected office.
If Aaron genuinely wants to enter elected politics on his own, then by all means, bring it on and good luck, Aaron.
And make no mistake, Aaron has a fine background - at least the navy bit. He deserves a medal for surviving as a political staffer for any party since the late 1990s.
What's lame-assed in this instance is the website. The thing is slow to load, is way too wide for most browsers and seem to have used just about every stock Conservative Party of Canada graphic and animation.
It looks exactly like every other CPC website except this one. That's the original CPC, the Communist Party of Canada.
Meanwhile, Loyola Hearn's site is still deader than a doornail. That's his dot com site; loyolahearn.ca doesn't even exist.
Compare that to his Liberal rival, Siobhan Coady. You can get there by .COM or .CA.
or for that matter, go visit Peg Norman, the New Democrat candidate who has reportedly stopped banging her head against the wall in the wake of Jack Layton's comments that people shouldn't vote for third place candidates.
Note that Peg's site is a cookie-cutter affair as well. Programmed nationally and with virtually no detectable local content.
