Ex-NDP MPP Rosario Marchese: “It didn’t matter what I said.”

By Steve Kupferman | June 19, 2014

By Steve Kupferman | 06/19/2014

“[Voters] were upset with the leader and in their mind we were moving to the right. It didn’t matter what I said.”

—Rosario Marchese, an NDP MPP who represented downtown Toronto for 24 years prior to being defeated in last week’s election by a Liberal upstart, expressing a view common among partisans: the party’s massive losses in Toronto were mostly the fault of Andrea Horwath, its leader. Two other Toronto NDPers (MPPs Jonah Schein and Michael Prue) also lost their seats during the bloodletting.

One thought on “Ex-NDP MPP Rosario Marchese: “It didn’t matter what I said.””

He didn’t say it was “Andrea’s fault”, he said people were upset with the leader. That could mean they were misinformed or misunderstood something. It doesn’t specify blame.

No matter what he said or presented, people had another narrative that they were running with, even when it wasn’t true.

“But the earth isn’t flat, it’s round!” -> “Quiet you, you’re bending to the right”

Could have been an actual conversation… it was kind of unfortunate, regardless of outcome, that the narrative had been so hijacked and taken out of the hands of the people it affected most (the citizens).

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