Currently DeCicco-Best is Running Slow Out of the Gate
Currently the cost of mounting a Mayoral campaign for the Mayor's seat in London is about $150,000 based on spending during the last election.
A successful candidate will also need at least 40 or 50 dedicated volunteers for the duration of the campaign, especially after September 1 and on Election day. If any of the names that have been put in play can achieve that, they might have a shot at winning the Mayor's chair. Without the money and the volunteers the ideas don't mean squat.
An interesting new poll has popped up to gauge interest in six possible candidates for the Mayor's Chair in the November 2010 Municipal Election. The candidates in order of popularity as of December 23rd are: Gina Barber, Nancy Branscombe, Jim Chapman, Anne-Marie DeCicco-Best, Joe Fontana, Tom Gosnell and Ted Wernham.
All but Chapman and Wernham are on Council. Wernham was previously on Council and Jim Chapman is a very well known television and radio personality in London as well as an author. He did run for office in the last Provincial election for the PC's in London Fanshawe. He knows his stuff locally, Provincially and Federally and shouldn't be discounted.
