If He Were a Bell He'd Be Winnning, Er, Winging It, Er, Ringing

It's a tight "Jew v. Jew" race up there in the 'burbs of Thornhill as incumbent Tory Peter Shurman squares off against new kid on the political block Bernie "Shut Yo' Mouth" Farber. Some in the know are predicting Shurman will prevail in the politically conservative riding, but Bernie, of course, thinks otherwise. In an interview in the Toronto Sun, he employs cliches galore, including one which captures his reason for moving into the political arena:

An Ottawa native living in Thornhill since 1989, Farber, 59, says “it’s a very, very tight race.

“This riding is the most diverse in Canada,” he says. “I am here as a candidate for the entire community.”

Highly regarded as the Canadian Jewish Congress’s former CEO — often quoted opposing hate crimes regardless of targets — he says “people know me for taking tough stands, although they’re not always popular.”

Farber says health is a big issue and backs the Liberal commitment to build the long-sought Vaughan Hospital.

Tory leader Tim Hudak recently announced his party will ensure the hospital “will proceed.”

Farber also vowed to “fight like a tiger to get the subway system to go north to Steeles.

“I’m not a fresh-eyed kid who looks like this as a job,” he says, calling his decision to run “a bell that rang many years ago.”

Whereupon he burst into a song sung by drunken temperance worker/evangelist Miss Sarah Brown in Frank Loesser's acclaimed musical Guys and Dolls:

Voters of Thornhill: Ask not for whom the bell rings. It rings for you.

I urge you to do your best to ignore it.