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How Do You Spell Cowardice? G-O-R-D-O

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I’m not going to spend a great deal of time on this one since the story tells itself.

Gordon Campbell is a coward–pure and simple. After his pals in government gift-wrapped his ‘Order of BC’ and bent the rules–to breaking, he didn’t have the courtesy to show up, knowing full well the embarrassment he’d have to endure at the hands of outraged British Columbians. I suspect they’d have numbered in the tens of thousands and run Victoria into full-on gridlock.

Now we learn that Campbell was requesting a private investiture. What a candy-assed milksop! After screwing the province for ten years, he angles a plum appointment to London but doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to show up and face the music??????

What a breathtaking coward! No words can be located to describe the contempt for this man.

Here is the superb story written by two of my favorite journos; Justine Hunter and Ian Bailey. Kudos to them.

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Author: Date: Monday, October 31, 2011 
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37 Responses to “How Do You Spell Cowardice? G-O-R-D-O”
  1. Smoking Halo says:
    October 31, 2011 at 1:47 PM

    I’m sorry if he wants a private ceremony, but if he can’t take the lumps….. boo hoo.

    He either waits until next year or he doesn’t get it. How hard is this for him to understand? He’s not physically ill unless you count a cirrhotic liver…..

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  2. Bruce says:
    October 31, 2011 at 1:52 PM

    what next for gordo? Vicroria Cross.I read the Article this morning,and it just boggled my mind, when he asked when can I wear it ,or add it to his letters. What a joke he has made to the award. I would think it would be a metal that would bring Honour and respect to the wearer. Now in my mind it brings contempt to the Metal. I guess one should feel sorry for that AssH##e. But I find I can not. Cheers

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    • AGT says:
      October 31, 2011 at 2:42 PM

      Actually if he put the letters as you suggest, ASSHOLE, next to his name, no one would be surprised or think it inaccurate.

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      • Observer says:
        October 31, 2011 at 2:54 PM

        I’d recommend that everybody open the link, read the article and at least one page of comments to it. Alex’s comments seem like ones made by a quire boy. Have fun! BTW, Gordo is an utter disgrace to this province and his OBC a gross and bitter insult to the intelligence of its inhabitants.

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        • The High Commissioner of the Office of the Smoking Halo says:
          October 31, 2011 at 6:36 PM

          Speaking of links, did you guys see this?

          Talk about backpedaling, Gordo…. or are you too many sheets to the wind to remember all your pro environment crap?

          Yeah, thanks, buddy.

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  3. anonymister says:
    October 31, 2011 at 2:48 PM

    Read this in a reader’s comment on the Globe and Mail piece by Justine Hunter and Ian Baily — sadly it rang true for me:

    “The OBC is an award sponsored by the “right kind of people” to honour those that saw it “their” way. ”

    There are some fine people who in the past have been rightly honoured, but I am afraid that’s just window dressing.

    The bigger disgrace is the Chief Justice of the BC Court of Appeal Lance Finch, chair of the OBC award committee, excusing his committee’s award to Gordon Campbell while he was still a sitting MLA, as being technically within the rules.

    Yup, the world is their oyster… for now.

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    • AGT says:
      October 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM

      The Chief Justice’s explanation is bunk. Just because he’s the Chief Justice doesn’t make him right automatically and certainly not all the time!

      Campbell’s appointment WAS NOT technically valid. I don’t want to go over it again, but it, at the very least, fell into a gray area which should have had his turn postponed to next year.

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  4. Marty says:
    October 31, 2011 at 2:48 PM

    Read the link. Makes me want to puke. The sheer arrogance.

    Marty

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  5. Gman says:
    October 31, 2011 at 3:55 PM

    You are way too hard on Mr. Campbell… Of course he should have a private investiture. It would hardly be appropriate fro him to appear in public

    As always, he is putting the province first… in this case, his number one concern is,of course, avoiding the costs to to taxpayers another Vancouver style riot would incur.

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  6. Don says:
    October 31, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    Hopefully we won’t be fooled again

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  7. hawgwash says:
    October 31, 2011 at 8:01 PM

    It all makes me wonder if he was sent away, like a remittance man.

    “A Remittance Man was called that because most received a scheduled remittance or allowance from their families. These payments were often made in order to keep the man away from Britain where it was thought he would cause problems for his family.”

    Perhaps his state of mind is/was such that he couldn’t be trusted to keep his mouth shut and not hurt some very powerful people (the family) here.

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  8. Steve says:
    October 31, 2011 at 8:52 PM

    I am not surprised at all. Nothing he or his successor do surprises me at all. Too bad, I would love for them to totally blow my socks off surprise me by doing something that is best for the majority of the people in the province, and then not insisting on a photo op of themselves congratulating themselves for getting something right for once. Sigh, won’t happen though.

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  9. Froth says:
    October 31, 2011 at 9:10 PM

    Gordo; Asshole.

    That about sums it up. A reward well deserved.

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  10. RS says:
    November 1, 2011 at 7:05 AM

    G-O-R-D-O

    Homonym or double (triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuble…) entendre?

    1. Coward
    2. Asshole
    3. Charlatan
    4. Scoundrel
    5. Gonif

    and on ‘n’ on ‘n’ on…

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  11. Martin says:
    November 1, 2011 at 3:53 PM

    So Gordo thinks he can pull another quick one on us…

    …and why wouldn’t we? After all, we’ve let him get away with so much before!

    We let him sell the assets to BC Rail to CN with hardly a wimper after he made a campaign promise not to.

    He drove drunk in Maui (and may have had a certain mistress in his passenger seat at the time)…we accepted his teary eyed apology and didn’t pursue it any further.

    The Legislature gets raided by the RCMP and records get seized in relation to the BC Rail sale and the Basi-Virk scandal. We object viamently, but the court trial gets delayed for 3-4 years, and is called off when Basi and Virk get a very generous settlement in order to plead guilty. People are pissed, but at the end of the day, the people of BC move on begrudgingly.

    He forces the HST on the people of BC when he made a campaign promise that “no new taxes were on the table” prior to getting re-elected in 2009. The people spoke via referendum, and although logically it wasn’t the best idea, we voted the unfairly implemented tax down.

    He pillaged and looted ICBC and BC Hydro and made sure his friends and business associates get their pockets nicely lined before he flew off in the sunset to jolly old England.

    I hope the bastard is forced to come back to BC to receive his tarnished Order of BC, and that the people REALLY show him how pissed off we are after 10 years of lies and deceit!!!

    (and I still blame the MSM for being passive lying dogs, instead of doing their damn jobs and getting to the bottom of the story)

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  12. Deep Throat says:
    November 2, 2011 at 12:10 AM

    The Roman emperor Nero married his male slave Sporus in a public ceremony, while Emperor Caligula was so proud of his horse that he gave the animal a place as a senate consul before he died!

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  13. ROFLOL says:
    November 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM

    Oh well – nobody mentions the elephant in the room- Stephen Harper. WHY on God’s green earth did he reward this dick with a gravy boat and a bag of plums? There is no excuse for giving an obviously corrupt, arrogant shit ticket like Campbell the “job” he was given. If Harper was serious about his pet crime bill, this stands out as a good starting point, but there appears to be little or nothing in it dealing with white collar crooks. Instead of investigating the stench that raises from Victoria , he rewards it. Go figure.

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    • AGT says:
      November 2, 2011 at 8:09 AM

      I have said this several times. The appointment was originally something TWO senior Harper staffers were completely against. It got passed–barely, through backchannels and was presented to the Prime Minister as a fait accompli. I cannot go any further than that without betraying a MAJOR confidence.

      And the only reason I know about it is because of my outrage when I called to complain. Remember, I’d heard High Commish to India for Gordo and that’s what te original idea was.

      He should have NEVER been appointed to anything.

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      • ROFLOL says:
        November 2, 2011 at 8:51 AM

        Then rescind it and fire the fools who presented it that way.The PMO has that power and to do nothing is disgraceful and shows that it’s just the same old shit, presented by the same Old Boys Club and looks no better than what the Liberals have been doing. There is NO EXCUSES for kicking British Columbians in the nuts like that. None.

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  14. ROFLOL says:
    November 2, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    Sorry, I get cranky after a 6 mile run.

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