Steve Kent decided around Christmas to run for the House of Assembly.
He didn't formally declare until yesterday.
A week after he spoke at the Rally for Danny.
In the meantime, he had a few things, including a boundary dispute, to keep his profile up there as a fighting Mount Pearler.
Follow so far?
Good.
Mayor Andy Wells.
Being his usual annoying, abrasive - and uninformed - self.
Behaving at the offshore regulatory board the same way he used to carry on at the public utilities border 20 years ago. Insulting people with terms that could be better used to describe himself.
Same boring stuff.
Someone leaked a letter to CBC Radio from the chair of the offshore board complaining about Wells. Wasn't the federal minister. Likely wasn't the provincial minister. Definitely wasn't the offshore board.
Who's left?
The same guy who leaked the story of his failed nomination for the top job at the board in the first place?
Good guess.
You see the same letter wound up in the hands of the Independent along with a marvelous, long-winded interview full of quotes.
But here's the thing.
The whole issue didn't need to pop up in the public domain right now. After all the letter was written almost a month ago and the incident involved goes back months before that.
So it gets the thoughts flowing.
If one mayor in the region is running for Danny, maybe the other big mayor will be running for him as well. Maybe this is just another one of those cheesy little stunts to keep Andy Wells' name in the news. Lord knows fixing the streets wouldn't be quite as newsworthy as Wells calling someone a hack, a word incidentally which describes the mayor to a tee.
So where would he run?
In Kent's case, both his intentions and his seat choice were wrapped up in a neat little bow, right next to the "it's all about leadership" crap that he would use to explain away what appears to many to be a track record of political opportunism.
In Well's case - if he were to run - there are actually a couple of options.
St. John's East is a safe Tory seat. It's currently held by intergovernmental affairs minister John Ottenheimer. Now Ottenheimer - surely one of the finest cabinet ministers in a while in this province - is not expected to run again.
But Andy doesn't quite fit the St. John's east profile.
That's a seat better suited to say, Dean MacDonald.
(Now there's an announcement that wouldn't surprise anyone. All that would be left to complete the set after that is a seat for Ken and job for Mel. Call it Cable Newfoundland and Labrador. An unregulated political monopoly. But I digress.)
Anyway, the seat most likely to suit any ambitions Andy might have would be the one currently held by the New Democrat leader, Lorraine Michael.
So there you have it. Speculation of the week. Andy Wells will be running for Danny in Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi.
And some smart bunny out there will undoubtedly connect up the rest of the political dots federally and provincially on his or her own.
