Thread by @JeffRybak

The #olpldr voting is finally upon us (starting tomorrow) and soon we'll know what our future looks like. Are we going to rebuild the Ontario Liberal Party with a new base of participants, or cement the hold insiders have maintained for decades? Depends who shows up. #onpoli 1/10

Largely unnoticed in this race are the many people who joined just because they felt a need to. No one signed their forms or paid their memberships - which has been happening in some places no matter what anyone claims. Many people just...join. #olpldr #onpoli 2/10

I'm hearing more and more from folks who desperately want to do something about the issues in our province, and want to do it in the Liberal Party, and they're just getting no response. They joined, paid their fee, and...nothing. Except fundraising emails. #olpldr #onpoli 3/10

Here's the ugly truth. Some people like it this way. Some people regard the Liberal Party as theirs and while they know they need money and votes to win, they'd rather everyone else stay quiet between elections. They see no other role for the party base. #olpldr #onpoli 4/10

Doing politics as usual means exactly that - mobilizing money and bodies to win elections, and then ignoring everyone outside a small inner circle between elections. And I see @StevenDelDuca and his team standing for nothing if not politics as usual. #olpldr #onpoli 5/10

I'm supporting @coteau, I've made that clear. But I've been impressed with the energy and enthusiasm that all the other candidates, @KateMarieGraham @MitzieHunter @AlvinTedjo @LiberalBrenda and their supporters bring to this race. I don't want to lose it. #olpldr #onpoli 6/10

To me, the choice isn't even between leadership candidates. It's between trying new things and including new people - admitting the Ontario Liberal Party has to change - or simply doing the same damn things with the same damn people...again. #olpldr #onpoli 7/10

The growing "anybody but Del Duca" attitude isn't based on hating @StevenDelDuca personally. It's based on what he represents and the team he's attracted. Because fundamentally, we have one person committed to the past, and five committed to the future. #olpldr #onpoli 8/10

To the many people who joined the Ontario Liberal Party only to be greeted by silence, I am very sorry. If we want something better, we need to cut through the apathy together. We need to choose something new, and better, than the way it's always been done. #olpldr #onpoli 9/10

This weekend, we all choose together. And like any election, it's going to come down to who shows up. Make the time. Put in the effort. Because truthfully, the biggest advantage we have over people who oppose change is that we care more than they do. #olpldr #onpoli 10/10