Colonel Cameron Ross, Sault Ste. Marie's Conservative candidate in the June 28 federal election, officially opened his war room / campaign headquarters yesterday in the former Currie Brothers building at 350 Lake Street.
They had a nice Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony.
They had a whole roomful of Very Important Local Conservative Party Supporters.
They had Really Smart Strategists and Spin Doctors and Backroom Boys.
Heck, they even had a vacationing astrophysicist from a Really Big American University who's back home helping chart candidate Ross's trajectory through the political heavens.
And they had the most important thing of all.
They had Edith Verdecchia's cupcakes.
The importance of cupcakes
Every successful political candidate knows you're only as good as your cupcakes, and Verdecchia is the Tory Machine's secret weapon in this campaign.
Edith's delectable offerings definitely won over Darcy Nevers (shown in our photo above), a co-operative education student from Korah Collegiate and Vocational School currently on assignment to SooToday.com.
Edith got after us when we snapped that image, because we didn't show the nice cherry on top of the cream-cheese icing.
Cherries are very, very important if you want to be successful in political cupcake-making.
A muffin in cupcake icing
And Edith let us in on her biggest secret.
That's not really a cupcake that Darcy's about to scarf down.
It's a muffin. An iced carrot muffin.
We'd get the recipe for you, but you couldn't make them the way Edith does.
"It's all in the ingredients. I use only the best," she tells us.
To see some of the folk who were at yesterday's official opening, please click on the photo gallery immediately below.
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