New Polling Shows Christy Clark’s Now a Millstone Around the Neck of the BC Liberals and She Threatens to Obliterate Any Notion of a Free-Enterprise Coalition
For those of you wondering where the Premier of this province has been hiding, let me help.
Ken Boessenkool, her Enbridge pumping Chief of Staff, has ordered her to her family retreat in the Gulf Islands (and some other possible holiday plans). She has been ordered to take the summer off (don’t you feel better about all her staffers, who will also have nothing to do while collecting off you?) and Christy will be there for the balance of the summer, emerging only to hit the BBQ circuit. She’s also been ordered to lose weight and work on her messaging.
Fat chance on the latter.
The plan is for her to reappear in September, energized and fit, to notch a trailblazing number of big score announcements.
But it will be all for naught.
The latest Angus Reid poll shows why Ken’s latest plan to save the Dummy, might as well have come from Barbie herself.
Plus, other related matters will surely result in a revolt. IF it doesn’t the BC Liberals will surely be decimated.
Pay attention, because you won’t read this in the MSM.
1) The latest Angus Reid poll (released yesterday) reaffirms the very deep troubles for Christy Clark of previous polls.
Clark is now actually trailing BC Conservative leader Cummins amongst women (again and more significantly than last reporting period), and she is plummeting in a couple of (new) surprising groups – young people and middle income households. Christy also trails both BC NDP leader Adrian Dix (the presumptive Premier) and Cummins on crime and has massively negative momentum. This is ASTOUNDING. How on earth can any of the idiots on the government bench not want to boot her now???
Christy’s trailing a left wing ideologue in middle income households (read: many, non-NDP, upwardly mobile homes and is lagging behind a septuagenarian grandfather, who believes abortion is murder and gay marriage is a sin, with WOMEN! She’s trailing the Count and Herman Munster WITH WOMEN!!!
She can’t even carry the women’s vote!
A young, attractive, prom queen with a perma-smile can’t hold the vote of at least a quarter of our young people, after admitting she was a doper through high school and beyond??? You must be kidding?
Well, at least her admission that she was (is?) a big marijuana smoker explains much of her “thinking”…
Geezus Murphy, never mind having a chance of winning the next election, she’ll be lucky to survive a revolt at any time from now on. This i devastating polling, my darlings. The knives are already being sharpened by party stalwarts in the Valley and West Vancouver. But this kind of freefall by a sitting Premier is swifter and deeper than any plunge Gordon Campbell or Glen Clark ever took.
2) On a related note, with Christy unable to turn things around, and, in fact, making matters worse by staying, MLAs are jumping ship more and more frequently. Notice a pattern? Coming out of the 2009 election, they had 49 seats, but after the three by-elections (Campbell, Black, Penner) the Liberals dropped to 47 before the defection of John van Dongen.
They then dropped to 46.
Of the 46 left, several have confirmed they will not seek re-election – Harry Bloy (March 2012), and then one a week for the last three weeks with Kevin Krueger (June 2012), Kash Heed (June 2012), and Hayer (July 2012). And I can confirm for you that George Abbott, Rich Coleman, Kevin Falcon and Colin Hansen will not run again.
And Christy’s buddies (delusional as they must be) are lining up to take out Stephanie Cadieux in Surrey and Ralph Sultan in West Vancouver, with federal Liberal loyalists (to Christy and her group), and others have privately decided to pack it in after this term (but I’ve yet to confirm those names).
If any MLAs resign before October, there will have to be by-elections. Almost no MLAs have said they will actually run for her. It might not happen but if she keeps losing candidates at the rate of one a week, she’ll have no one left by election time!
And my pal Peter Brown wants the BC Conservatives and any other disaffected ‘free-enterprisers’ to unite under Christy???
There’s about as much chance of that as my winning a runway modeling contract in Milan with Giorgio Armani…
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Tomorrow, you get the BC Rail docs I promised.
Hint: What did Gordon Campbell really know about the sale of BC Rail?
Stay tuned.
Liberal MLA Murray Coell announced he won’t run again, another to add to the list
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Still waiting for response to BC being second place for job growth this year.
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ROTFLMFAO!!!
You’re back again for another beating??? What an IDIOT! Tell me: How much are they paying you to show up?
A couple of tickets to a community hockey game and a voucher for Denny’s Grand Slam? LOL!
The BC govt has FRAUDULENTLY meshed jobs creation stats that were created WITHOUT ONE STITCH of effort on their par. For example: Along te Crowsnest Pass, they have tacked ‘BC Jobs!’ signs onto preezisrinf signs, that had nothing to do with Christy’s failed job plan. LOL!
And those are just two examples of the fraud.
You moron, I sure hope Port Coquitlam will contain your grief win she’s hammered into oblivion.
Go away, fool. I’ll be doing the full post when I’m done with more important issues like BC Rail.
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Poco will contain his grief. The MLA there is Mike Farnsworth. Mr. Mike will have no trouble. All he has to do is put away the last of the business, spend 24 days walkin around and eating cheap dinners, and getting tummy upsets from the campaign office coffee.
After the election, just turn the door key turn on the Banana Junior 9000 PC and continue on with the constituency work.
(Alex you know as well as I do what that campaign office coffee is like. Left alone exposed on the counter it would burn a hole through).
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I’ve had so much goddamned campaign coffee in my life, it’s why I switched to tea when I got out of the backrooms!!
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That stuff will definately get to ya. If anyone here has never worked a campaign office, they’re missing out on a real taste treat..
Me? I kept to fruit drinks after goin through tanks of that stuff.
It’s like goin’ to Bob’s Lunch at the PNE with all that grease on their burgers. Ya have do get into it!
But mind you, after a few hours out there in the cold rain an wind,
that stuff will defintely warm ya up.
Will burn your insides too.
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Thank God I wasn’t a federal Liberal.
Marrisen’s jackboots were always slipping ExLax into coffee urns, etc.
Assholes…
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Marrisen thought everybody was as full of shit as him and his lady(Term used loosely)
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Yup.
I’ve had ONE conversation with Marissen by phone. That was in 2005. You should have heard the asshole try and intimidate me. I explained that I was in bed with my then 4 year old son, who was suffering from the flu.
And Marissen didn’t miss a beat; he threatened me to stop talking about his wife’s bid to be the NPA mayoral candidate in any negative way, or else.
“I won’t take this lightly, I’m warning you,” he said.
And my reply?
“If I were you, I’d be more worried about taking it lying flat on the ground…fuck off. My opinion is you are a cancer in any organization you infest.”
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Campaign coffee is good for one thing.
When your car’s battery terminals are badly corroded, pour yesterday’s (cooled) leftover coffee over the corroded terminals, then rinse with clean water.
Works like a hot Dam & It’s already been paid for.
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Still drinking the purple koolaid eh Frank.
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He’s a drunk!
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Well when CC hires staff like she does is it any wonder!!!!
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Booze’n koolaid?
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You don’t get it Frank. BC could be first in job growth but we still don’t want to be governed by criminals and cover-up artists giving away our assets to their friends.
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Precisely.
But Frank’s a tough guy. And a smart guy, too! He thinks there’s nothing to Christy’s connection to BC Rail documents.
ROTFLMFAO! The guy is delusional. He can’t see the connection!!! LOL!
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All he can see is Clucky’s r… oh never mind. I told myself I’d behave.
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Also, liberal fund raising dinners in some communities have been advertised in local paper as being “sold out”. They were and the guests were corporate sponsors who had employees attend the dinners. Statistics are certainly manipulated but the truth has been the first casualty of the liberals since their first day in office. Remember Campbell promising voters he wouldnt touch BC Hydro? Just look at the mess and 80 billion debt these guys created. Can BC ever recover from the Liberal devastation?
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Just like the Premier’s Dinner.
They weren’t sold out as they had to give away about a dozen tables for the room to look full.
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Sold out as “morals” go to the highest bidder?
Didn’t Gordo promise to honor all existing labor contracts too?
He sure screwed up the working class with his WCB changes.
JK
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I’m no BC Liberal fan. But Ralph Sultan in West Vancouver? They really want want to ditch the ONLY truly competent person in the whole caucus?
After all the smears poor Ralph had to endure under the Honourable Gordon Campbell, OBC it is a wonder where he finds the tenacity to serve.
Stephanie Cadieux is a ‘meh’ in my book.
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I quite agree.
For someone with her intelligence, she really disappointed me over the CLBC handling.
As for Ralph, he’s a very good man.
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He’s very good, affable, a real gentleman, He has impeccable credentials (but he’s far from being the stuffy type academic that has suit jacket with leather elbow patches on it.). He should have made Cabinet early on.
Who are they intending to replace him with? Pamela Martin? Oh geezus Murphy. If you’re Opposition you want the smart minds on your team, not empty helmets. Being in Oppposition will mean knowing how to do the homework and more importantly how to deliver it. Being able to talk and knowing how to do it right.
Smiling and being a fashion statment isn’t going to do that.
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The leading contender is Martin, even though they all deny it.
The problem is: What if she wins?
Pammy in Opposition???
LOL!
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Sultan. Yes he is intelligent. Good schooling. Responds to constituents emails with hand written letters. Is a widower.
But he walked hand in hand on key issues with Gordon Campbell by commission or omission. So Fail. He is gone. So is any replacement that runs under the Liberal flag.
You can thank MLA’s like Sultan for NOT doing the right thing at the right time. It’s because of leadership like that (and that includes virtually every single Liberal MLA – including your favorite Van dongen or whatever his name is) that we are going to have a NDP government in BC. Among other things, that’s the disgusting legacy that the Liberals will leave our province.
Pamela Martin for MLA in West Vancouver. Lol, not happening, but you are not far off. But that’s not going to happen either.
JB
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Oh, I’m sure.
It’s a shit show on the BC Lib side.
They’re so done.
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The phrase “Run out of town on a rail” comes to mind…
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They’re taking the Last Liberal Train to Clarksville….
….sorry, could’t resist.
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So here’s a thought only two liberals elected. CC & Pam. How long till family calls CC away leaving Pam as official opposition?
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Okay, I just got into my room.
You want me to have nightmares or something?
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I have late breaking news that a campaign to draft a special candidate to replace Ralph Sultan is underway.
This candidate has several hundred green ink hours in the CF-18P Pundit Hornet.
This candidate will have a special blend of campaign coffee spiked with Ralph’s viagara prescreption because of the manservant butler.
This candidate will have a manservant butler who will make her sandwiches, wash her car and do as he is told and therefore is not a campaign manager.
This candidate will race not drive to events in her Porsche.
Oh and I hear this candidate is a Vice President for Policy for a business group and is a member of Mensa.
Pammy Martin would last .001 seconds next to her.
However, the name of this special candidate is a guarded secret. We want to see the look on the faces when they see fly under the Lion’s Gate their saviour…
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Oh Dear Lord…spare me…please…just a little…today of all days…please…
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SIERRA, SIERRA, SIERRA
I did post another funny comment moments ago.
Sorry dude.
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No problem.
Worry not.
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Pam, the best ally of Adrian Dix. Long Live!
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Will there even be a liebral left to be called opposition?
I would like to see Conservative ,Green and NDP almost even.
With not a liebral in sight
This may allow some debating room to start repairs to this disaster left by our favorite “Trust Me I’m A Liebral ” gang..
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.. and ‘NW just ran a story that murray coel won’t be running again…
excerpted from the NW website..
http://preview.tinyurl.com/cpw35os
Liberal MLA Coell leaving politics
VICTORIA/CKNW (AM980)
Sean Leslie | Email news tips to Sean
7/11/2012
Another veteran Liberal M-L-A is calling it quits.
Saanich-North M-L-A Murray Coell says he will not seek re-election next year.
Coell has been in the Legislature for 16 years, and held a variety of cabinet posts under Gordon Campbell.
Coell says he wants to spend more time with his family.
On Monday, M-L-A Dave hayer announced he was leaving provincial politics as well.
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Yes, we know.
I just wrote about it.
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It is, after all “families first” here in BC
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If Christy had an ounce of brains she would spend her time at the family retreat contemplating her future and realize her 15 minutes is up and do the right thing and just go quietly.
Bob
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You’d think…but she doesn’t.
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I think it might take people like Brown and maybe longtime Lib supporter Hochstein have a meeting with her and agree to not leave until she agrees to step down.
The NDP had the same type of mutiny happen with James that the BC Libs need.
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Agreed. What I thought would separate the BCNDP brought them together.
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imho alex… SHE CAN’T.
anyone who gained control of the liberal party in the next year and wanted to give it even the slightest chance of surviving would be forced to call an inquiry in to BC rail.
wont happen, she can not leave….. unless she is actually telling the truth and has nothing to hide….. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!
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regretfuly we are still getting more than 15 minutes of blame.
blame alex, blame the ndp, even blame the media
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Of course she won’t, and nobody within he Christy Party who’s sane and got some brains (but no morals) left would force her to do so. She’ll be the dumping ground and those smart asses who’ll end up with fat, taxpayer-funded pensions will blame her for their own indolence and lack of integrity that, BTW, has become an extinct feature among politicians, not only in Canada. This is mostly a heard of greedy pigs feeding from the taxpayer-filled through. Thank you, Alex, for making this so clear!
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Murray Coell announced this afternoon that he won’t be running again. He is my MLA and a nice guy but there was not a chance in hell that I was going to vote for him again as I have several times in the past.
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He didn’t the name Useless Coell for being brilliant. The putz doesn’t even know where the Gulf Islands are.
Good riddance.
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With so many other world legislatures throwing chairs, pulling pistols, slug fests etc. etc. in the news now days what’s is going on here in British Columbia? Liberal MLA’s putting their respective tails between their legs and abandoning Victoria. Doesn’t appear seemly at all. What a bunch of _________. (fill in the blank with whatever)
Great article.
Burgess.
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Good point Burgess. They should bring the Taiwanese or South Korean Parliaments here to show them how it’s done.
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Thank you Alex!
I’m far more informed by reading your writings.
And I appreciate your allowance for a wide variety of comments.
Cheers!
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Seems to me if you were having a significant amount of work done you would want to be away from the cameras until it all healed. Or are they hoping for absence makes the heart grow fonder?
As for the steadfast MLA’s I can only assume they are calculating the number of days remaining until they qualify for a pension.
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Mr. Gar,
Good observation on the latter. They are opportunists looking to fill their wallets.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder – Not gonna happen for Corrupt Crusty. Perhaps more accurate – GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT – just several more months ……….
doesn’t matter how many more fake glasses you try CC, or how much weight you lose, or how much you work on that shit eating grin, or how you pretend to be so concerned about the latest oil spill……..just a few more months!!!!!!!!!
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Unite the right is not going to happen. There is no one to lead & I would suggest no one seems to be taking the long term view of matters. The right will loose this election, unless the NDP “f.up” big time.
If I were looking to the future I would find a 30/40/50ish person with a brain, some leadership qualities, integrity & start to build a “unite the right” party from the ground up. They might be able to take some of the more acceptable lieberals in minor roles but the rest would hve to be new. .
It would be a difficult 4 or more years but it can be done. I don’t know if there is anyone who can do it, given I’m not of the “unite the right” faith, but that is what I would do. It don’t care how thin CC gets. I don’t care how good she is in front of the camera. I won’t care how good her wardrobe is. You will have that model contract before she ever gets up in the polls.
Peter Brown needs to be scouting in new territory. Rebuilding and/or building a political party is hard work but it can be done. Grace McCarthy did it after WAC went down in flames. Gordon Wilson gave it a good try. We have seen it in other provinces. Joy McPhail & Jenny Quan kept it together for the NDP for all those years.
The key though will be a clean background, no insider trading types, and some one sensitive to the needs of children living in poverty. Not wanting to sell off our enviornment to the highest bidder might be another good thing. Tankers aren’t going to win anybody any votes.
Unless Brown starts this at the bottom, he isn’t going to get much traction from a front wheel drive vehicle. He is going to need a 4 X 4 and go out into the marsh & start slogging.
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Some extremely good points.
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It’s starting to soulnd like the old Socred – “Anything But The NDP” campaign.
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This right wing and left wing stuff is so stupid!
Too damn many back room string pullers on each side means our wonderful province is screwed no matter which group is elected.
Miracle of miracles would be honest, forthright and caring people get elected to govern BC and back room string pullers are shown the door.
That would mean a centrist party, I suppose, a little right of centre on fiscal policy and a little left of centre on social policy, but with the welfare of all or at least most British Columbians as the first and only consideration.
Well, we all know it aint going to happen!
More’s the pity!
PS – Fortunately, I live in John Horgan’s riding.
If only all British Columbians lived in ridings with candidates like him.
Once again, more’s the pity!
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Point of clarification: I have never voted for a party, always voted for the person I thought would do their best for their constituents and our province.
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I hear it’s Falcon’s annual BBQ at the St. Germaine ranch Saturday.
You got any informants heading there to see how big an ass Clucky makes of herself?
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Nope.
I don’t play that way.
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You’re going in person then????
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You’re too funny.
No, I know Gerry well enough and have been up to the ranch many times over the years.
I just have no interest goin to partisan political events. Plus, I’m away, so…impossible.
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Haha! They’re billing it as a “family event”, but how many of CC’s shills will be there stroking her ego?
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Giorgio Armani runway model isn’t your style anyway.
May I suggest B.C. Rail Investigation Conductor?
The job comes with hundreds of thousands of grateful and supportive citizens.
And, we could take up a collection and have a nice fashionable tailormade uniform made up as a perk.
Can’t wait for the “Gordacio” B.C. Rail sale dirt.
By the way, what is a “upwardly mobile home”, what keeps it flying – hot air?
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People who aren’t afraid of taking a calculated risk to get ahead.
And…me, in overalls??? Um, okay…LOL!
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Better looking stripes on those overalls than the ones Christy wants you to wear…lol
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Let ‘em come, pal.
Nuclear Armageddon…
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Just make sure your engineers hat is made of tinfoil, for Vaughan
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Breaking News!
Photo of Christy “Pew Pew” Clark connects her as “conductor” of the B.C. Rail fiasco – Keith Baldery says, “Stinks!? Naw, that’s Jean-Paul Gaultier!”
http://e621.net/post/show/15811
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Pat Kinsella – B.C. Rail Head Conductor, leaving on “The Last Train FROM CLARKSville – we all get to hold the bag – the next elected government – SURPRISE!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bQsuhPJduqQ/SHbdp915vDI/AAAAAAAAAtc/FqVwf4Qcwns/s400/lar_Conductor(Getting_Here-PassengerRail).jpg
Brian Kieren – B.C. Rail Junior Conductor, in happier times.
http://syaple.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/train20conductor1.jpg?w=480&h=640
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I’m no Christy fan but I think the Liberal handlers just made a huge error.
I agree that Christy has been using her sexuality and cleavage to her advantage….
BUT when I read that her handlers have told her to lose weight before September.. not only is it offensive and sexist, but it just proves that she is just a body being used to distract the male voters…
Huge mistake!
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Yes, a body with an empty head.
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i disagree george.
christy recently has appeared in public looking like she has put on weight, is not sleeping and seems completely out of sorts as if she had just woken up.
male or female… i dont want some fat unhealthy looking gas bag, who seems so overstressed they cant put a cohearant thought together leading the province i live in.
even if they were a great leader, in politics perception counts. lately CC has given the appearance as if she just can not handle the job.
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Whiterockj
I recently started taking a very strong drug for a medical condition..I’ve gained a huge amount of weight, should my job be taken away as I look very unattractive and stressed due to the pain…
I get your point, I just feel it is a slippery slope when we start judging on appearance of women in politics or life in general…perhaps it is a sensitive topic for me..
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I don’t think anyone is doing any more judging than we’ve been conditioned to.
The world is obsessed with beauty.
When I was fat, it made it the easy slur for critics of this blog.
Do you hear any of them say it now? No, because after a 45lb drop I feel terrific and can out run and out play most of my friends, includin ones twenty years younger.
It simply eliminates one more criticism and certainly, she’s pushing for a healthier famies first agenda.
She can’t look like she eats breakfast, lunch and dinner at Krispy Kreme.
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Looks should not matter.. really disappointed that it has become an issue…it should be the quality of the work and the integrity.. very disappointing.
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Oh, come off it!
It’s the way the world works; I don’t know anyone with a functioning brain that would agree with it, but it’s a fact.
Geezus…
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if you saw the poor sway back horse she was on in Williams Lake….you would counsel her to a weight loss also.
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yes george it is sexist.and offensive if you have to use t&a to get votes you are in trouble.
would the same advisors tell rich coleman the same advice?
a canidate is a commodity in the market place and regetfuly slimmer sells
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Yup.
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Actually, I think you’ve a much better chance becoming the model with Giorgio Armani…!
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Marvelous, I’ll get right on that!
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History tends to repeat itself. I couldn’t help thinking how much B.C. is like Saskatchewan was back in 1995.
This from Wikipaedia:
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Devine won election to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in the 1982 general election that brought him and 54 other Progressive Conservatives to power—the first time that the party had won government in its own right. Only a small portion of the long-ruling New Democratic Party (NDP) was left as opposition. Devine became only the second Tory to serve as premier; the first, James T.M. Anderson, formed a coalition government in 1929.
Devine’s government divested several state-owned enterprises, made initial public offerings of others, introduced reforms to labour law and welfare programs.
Devine instituted royalty holidays for new wells drilled from June 1, 1982 to the end of 1983, as well at a 30 per cent tax reduction on older wells from 1974 on, and other tax breaks were offered to the industry. This was expected to cost the province $35 million, but lost revenue would be made up via increased exploration.
Devine governed during some of the worst droughts since the “dirty thirties”. The price of oil and agricultural commodities collapsed. In the end, the high cost of government mortgage rate reduction policies during 19 per-cent interest rates and his agricultural rescue policies resulted in a large deficit. The year Devine came to government the provincial GDP only grew 0.6 per cent, down from 20.9 per cent growth the previous year.[1] Since then Saskatchewan has had routinely less than 10 per cent growth in GDP.[citation needed]
His government was re-elected in the 1986 election, although his NDP opponents won a plurality of votes.
Devine’s government was defeated in the 1991 election after two terms in power. The PC party was reduced to ten seats in the legislature.
Although Devine himself was never implicated in any criminal wrongdoing, 13 out of 55 Conservative MLAs and staffers were charged with expense account fraud during Devine’s second term, 1986–1991. Of these a handful were acquitted while some served prison time.
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So similar.
Now for the prison part for those who deserve it …
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It’s times like this when recall options should be seriously analyzed.
http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/referenda-recall-initiative/recall/#C
Once the process gets going you need signatures from 40% of the riding. It would require incredible effort and coordination, but when the corruption gets this bad it makes you wonder whether it would be worth it.
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With 10 months to go until a general election you will find zero support for recall – so, not worth it.
The BC Liberals could change the ‘fixed’ election date to the fall so they can say they are running on their audited financials. The extra 6 months would be enough time for a palace coup and leadership race.
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It’s deliberately made complicated. While some like yourself figure it’s a good concept as a political club, it’s very difficult to achieve. Paradoxically, the NDP never did improve the legislation for that and the referendums when they were in power. During the NDP’s time, there were a number of recalls against the NDP, but none of them ever made it.
With an election about 9 to 8 months out, the time line is such that, might as well wait it out for the next election anyway.
All of those BC Liberal stalwarts and waste of taxpayer money people such as Pamela Martin will be out of a job anyway. And with that, the paid apparatchik of the BC Liberal Party will fall apart too, so those who are enjoying their false sense of bliss are going to be hit hard with the dark reality. And yes there are a few of them than even now are living within their own dream world well away from what actually is going on out there in terms of voter support.
They still refuse to listen to the sounds of MLA held ridings cooking off, like two did this week.
Its those kind of people that make it joke to even bother volunteering an afternoon stuffing envelopes or changing the toilet paper in the men’s can in the campaign office and then after that looking forward to an evening sleeving signs while others get good money and do s.b. all
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it was tried in oak bay/gordon head riding and maple ridge riding.
i would say that both failed…. but honestly… look at where the liberals are in the polls now and ask yourself how much of that has to do with the hst and recall people bringing so much attention to the liberals actions.
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The free enterprise coalition has a very slim chance to win the 2013 election, but only if all the following things happen:
1. Christy Clark resigns ASAP
2. All senior cabinet ministers who were identified with the Campbell government indicate they won’t run again. This includes Rich Coleman, Mary Polak, Mike de Jong, Kevin Falcon, George Abbott, Colin Hansen (ex-minister) and several others. It does not include Blair Lekstrom, the only MLA to take the right public stance on the HST. He resigned from cabinet and caucus because the cabinet wouldn’t agree to do more consultation. He is a man of principle.
3. A truly neutral third party, respected by all sides (and not part of the downtown Vancouver business community, or deeply identified with one political party or the other), negotiates with John Cummins and the Conservatives.
4. As a result, there is a merger agreement between the two parties and an open leadership race, with above-board and ongoing financial disclosures (during, not after the campaign) for all candidates and third parties backing candidates with unofficial campaigns. There must be no mass member sign-ups, by agreement of the two parties and agreed to in writing by all leadership candidates.
5. The new leader must have a clean track record and an ability to bring people together. She or he calls an inquiry into BC Rail; calls off liquor privatization; stops Hydro, MSP and ICBC rate hikes and opposes the Enbridge pipeline.
Then, maybe, the coalition might have a ghost of a chance. But it has a lot of catching up to do.
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Good points but the argument implodes in #2 Polak will never step down.What else is she going to do?
Don’t say run as a federal Conservative in one of the new ridings, she has already burnt that bridge.
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I understand there’s an opening in the Durham region. Perhaps someone should be sending Polak all the MLS for Ajax, Bowmanville, Newcastle, Oshawa, Pickering, Whitby…
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You could add McNiel to the list. Maybe she could room with Polak. They’d look good in paper hats serving happy meals to hungry tourists.
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wont happen.
lots and ifs and buts in your post… but the one thing you seem to willfully forget is that many of the people who are currently supporting the conservatives would either not vote or vote ndp rather than support any new version of the liberals.
EVEN IF the conservatives decided to merge with the libs, your kidding yourself if you think they are brining all of their supporters with them.
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I agree except for Lekstrom, dump him too. He is a toady these days sucking up to Clark because he was dumped before and lost money. So money is his motivation, not service. As an after-thought, forget it, I don’t agree with you at all. he Liberal party should ALL disappear, and not be able to hide amid other parties, NO coalition, just all NEW people who will SERVE the people of BC instead of themselves!
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A pipe dream.
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Interesting but you are way off on Lekstrom.
He is a self obsessed egomaniac and a disaster as a leader.
Under his watch – BC Hydro was destroyed, and he didnt care as he was worming his way into a better personal position.
Just another LIEberal snake.
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great column alex
here is how i see it.
the reason ms clark has not been dumped is that no one is in the wings.
leadership change cost money and money is drying up
they would rather have you nail her and then say we were duped just like the people of bc
shame on them all
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`Dummy just announced an expansion of our Kamloops Royal Inland Hospital in late 2013. Too bad she won’t be around to keep her promise. Also, note her Horn Rim Glasses. We wonder if changing CC’s appearance will help?
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She still can’t see straight. Even with the glasses.
No vision at all.
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It’s really a shame that her party cannot keep her out of the public eye. The only three people in Kamloops that believed her were Lake ,Krueger, and the new candidate Todd Stone ( maybe Mayor Milobar too ). Everyone else was rushing the barf bag bar.
http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20120711/KAMLOOPS0101/120719958/-1/kamloops/premier-announces-80-million-for-rih-upgrade
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I admit, I’m doing the happy dance over here on the island. Falcon, Abbott and Coleman confirmed? I can’t wait to hear their reasoning; oh but we’ve already heard it countless times. They’re all leaving “to spend more time with [their] [families]“.
Cowards. Speak up as you leave and give the real reasons and perhaps you could exit with at least a modicum of dignity.
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They will. On Saturday at Kevin’s beans and jeans annual piss up.
It’s confirmed: they’re all full of beans.
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I’ll be there Alex. We can meet
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Listen you moron, this is your last comment.
I don’t go to partisan events, besides I’m away with my family.
But I I’m sensing that your somehow trying to challenge me to anything pay attention:
I’ve had three stalkers in this business. One went to jail and the other two ended up looking not terribly well after one appeared at my office and the other hassled me when I was having dinner with my family at a locale restaurant.
I’ll warn this one last time.
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On a less serious note, I’d rather see you drop the gloves and whoop ass on Justin Trudeau!
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I know. Lots of Liberals and Tories want me to fight Trudeau when they do the charity fight again but it just wouldn’t be fair at all. I used to box and Trudeau simply outlasted Brazeau, who got tired and dropped his gloves.
My fitness level is so good right now, I could go eight rounds, never mind three.
And the hits he’d take to the body…I’d just feel sorry for him.
Maybe I’d they let me fight Brazeau and Trudeau in a coal miner’s glove match, I’d consider it. LOL!
Such wieners.
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Tough talk from Frank. He wants to tango he can do it with me particularly if he is in the interior. I also like to tangle with idiots. I do it one of two ways. I’ll simply point out how ignorant they are or there is a second way and one that isn’t reccomended.
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You’re my kinda guy, pal.
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Alex please don’t ban Frank…
He’s such a pathetic-Liberal-fanboy-TOOL!
A little bit of comedy is good for the soul.
And Frank: mind your manners ( and your grammar) or ‘somebody gonna get a hurt’
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Real bad…somebody…and I think you know him.
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Every once in a while it’s fun to feed the troll…. but sparingly
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Actually, he’s quite entertaining. Christy and her booze’n koolaid are becoming boring. Enbridge keeps losing traction, if it’s ever had any, even with the Dummy. This cabaret is still performing on the Titanic deck. It’s surreal!
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How I’d love to be a butterfly on one of those walls…
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Alex;
Dammit. I’m going to be in Seattle on photog assignment at 0900 and then again at 1500 and then attempt to recruit somebody in Seattle for a special op. I hope this happens, not just so Christy is a goner but just to show the establishment media who’s the SEAL and who are the sissies.
I hope that stalker knocks it off as well. Stay safe man. There are fans who are loud like me and then there are stalkers.
Some other time, I’ll share this goofy comment but this doesn’t seem the time to share.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIP9KXdmO0
enough said.
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ROTFLMAO!!!
Now, THAT was hysterical!
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If foghorn could write I would say he has started blog trolling.
Must be Franks turn to be dumb bot for this month I guess.
Frank come say Hi, look for me near the pretty bike.
We can chat about crissy and stuff.
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Yes. The “to spend more time with family” is fast becoming the BC Liberal’s new and improved “Families First Agenda”.
http://www.bccare.ca/pdf/Christy%20Clark%20-%20Families%20First%20Agenda.pdf
That’s the least busy desk I have ever seen!
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Sultan is no saint. He is as tainted as the rest of the Campbell-Clark loyalists with their arrogance, deceit, incompetence and corruption. Good riddance to all of them in May 2014!
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Hi Alex,
Any comment on CBC reposting their 2011 story (link below) along with their story of today about John Van Dongen getting access to more documents? or should I just wait to read your story comes it out tomorrow?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/02/16/bc-bc-rail-documents.html
As always, thank you for all your work on this.
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Frank – I read some of your comments and I wonder if you have a functioning brain. Are you ok? Do you need some help? I only ask as I am concerned about you Frank, you seem to be very delusional in your logic and how you remember the facts.
You are close to riverview, I suggest you stop in for some treatment. By the way Frank I won’t ever read a comment from you again, you won’t be wasting my time anymore.
Frank why don’t you PUBLISH the real job numbers, if you know what they are, why don’t you go on the record, scared of being shut down by those who you support. Take it to the MSM Frank, why not debate this in the open. WHY NOT FRANKY?
Bye Frank, you delusional piece of cannon fodder. You are lucky AGT is a man of principles.
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Looking forward to see Campbell exposed.
No doubt our MSM won’t report on it. However, I do hope you send the info to the tabloids in London. Perhaps they might want to report on the Canadian Ambassador, his (ass)holiness the “honorable” Gordon Campbell.
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Thanks for your good work and great postings Alex.
I do not understand—- what does “losing weight” have to do with brain power— will this help CC, if so, why wasn’t Coleman told to lose weight too, he could lose a couple of pounds and help his brain power as well? Hmmmmmmm
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They don’t want comparisons to Rita Johnston?
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@Betyee
Actually one of our city Councilwomen Andrea Reimer already told Rich Coleman he needed to go to Jenny Craig in a tweet several years ago.
She and council were upset that they weren’t getting funding they wanted.
Reimer had to publicly apologize in the media…funny that old double standard..
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Poooor Christy. I’m not sure what she could do except show more cleavage. She might hold the Dirty Old Man vote if Pam Anderson doesn’t run. Meanwhile, my hope is that you and van Dongen will continue to press the BC Rail scandal. I will still be angry in 900 years when the lease is up on the gravel under the tracks of MY railroad.
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And I can confirm for you that George Abbott, Rich Coleman, Kevin Falcon and Colin Hansen will not run again.
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Alex, thats a no brainer, these guys know that the BC Liberal party is done, toast, finished.
If they do win a seat it will be at least 78 NDP seats to 5 Liberals.
Can you imagine these guys as the opposition, can you imagine all the mud that the NDP can bring up on these guys-too embarassing.
Time to pack your bags and go spend your pension money in the Cayman Islands.
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With a large amount of members quitting and the rest being pretty well long in the tooth and over the required 6 years of service for a pension it’s no wonder they aren’t standing up to CC. With a cushy pension and other opportunities on the horizon why upset the apple cart.
They will let her waddle on and blow herself up while reducing their stress to a comfortable level.
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http://www.vancouversun.com/plans+more+Port+Mann+Bridge/6919822/story.html
ROFL. how stupid are the people trying to save the liberals?
they now are spending hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to tell the people who drive by the new port mann bridge every day it will soon be done.
i wonder if they will mention the tolls there p3 project is going to cost people every day to go to work?
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Hi Alex: Christy and her fawning sycopants,Kruegar and Lake were in Kamloops today making another empty promise with money she doesn’t have at Royal Inland Hospital.The non cheques keep getting bigger at each photo op.This time it was an 80 million dollar whopper for hospital funding to be a part of an 800 million expansion to be started in the fall of 2013.Of course no money changed hands and never will,Another empty promise from an empty head.The writeup is in the Kamloops News.Another sad day for the staff and patients at Kamloops RIH.She’s going to do an iterview with Jim Reynolds tomorrow,should be very uninteresting.
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Alex,
Hearing that all her “friends” are out now makes me do a happy dance! Did you see her new slogan? “Forget it” That makes me think of those sopranos shows… Forgetta bout it. haha. I would love to get slogan shirts though that said “Forget it. Forget you CC.”
http://www.theprovince.com/news/bc/Christy+Clark+calls+Enbridge+pipeline+spill+disgraceful/6919166/story.html
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I know.
It’s so bad right now. She’s so deep in the drink.
Just wait. Bombshells coming this summer.
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Awesome!!! Thank you for all your hard work
You have so many loyal readers.
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Thank you.
And I’m grateful to all of them.
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Fartin Frank is gonna get a big hurt put on him.
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Did Mike Morton wash Christy’s mouth out with soap? She hasn’t uttered a bad word about Mr Canseco or his company.
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Just trying to think if any party has changed leaders twice between elections – any idea?
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I don’t think so.
But the Socreds once, pretty late in the game.
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The millstone has a proud history [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millstone]
of hardwork and utility, and its memory should not be tainted by comparing Ms. Clark to it.
The BC Liberals can only offer the chaff in the upcoming grind of a proviincial election.
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The reference to a millstone comes from Disreali’s famous quote…
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Thanks – Alex and commenter’s for sharing your insight of BC politics. The lies and scandals of the current government to the complicit nature of the MSM – WTF. I learn something daily reading this blog and enjoy it – a dose of raw truth with humor and passion. Love it!
A request if it’s not out of line. I am heading to Hornby Island, no internet for two weeks. I am looking for a BC politically based reading; memoir, biography, or a historical account of a pivotal event or time. A good read for the beach. Any favorites out there?
Cheers!
Mike
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I would, instead, recommend William Manchester’s biography of Churchill.
There is nothing from BC I would highly recommend, although any of David Mitchell’s books might be good.
For entertainment, you might try reading ‘Fantasyland’ by Keith Baldrey and Gary Mason. Or Bill VanderZalm’s self-published rendition of a few years ago.
Mind, that’s only if you like fiction. Both qualify.
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Two excellent books on the overall history of B.C. politics from 1871-1972 are The Company Province (two volumes) by Martin Robin. It is a witty and pungent analysis of how B.C. has been governed and many of its observations remain relevant today.
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I found it rather dry, to be brutally frank. Not an enjoyable read, regardless of the accuracy or information.
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Women don’t like Chrispy? Here’s why, personally observed at Her Highness’ visitation to the Williams Lake Stampede:
Photo Op with Stampede Queen and princesses- totally appropriately dressed and regal-like.
Chatting with rodeo riders, RCMP SSgt and local celeb Canadians goaltender C. Price: Magic top pulled down TIGHT and showing massive cleavage and in very close proximity all-male field of view. And smiling radiantly at each guy.
In a cowtown like Williams Lake, we all know when one is “in heat”. So do our women.
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And this is a surprise, how? LOL!
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I don’t get it.
Party insiders could advise Christy Clark to change her name to Bozo the Clown but when Bozo the Clown makes her next media appearance and everybody thinks it was Christy Clark, nothing has changed!
That pretty much sums up my thoughts about the “unite the right” subject.
How come the “smart people” and party insiders don’t get this? Why aren’t the BC Conservatives doing much more to distinguish themselves as an alternative for the center-right vote?
From my vantage point the BC Conservatives have adopted the entitlement values of their Socialist bretheren with regards to disillusioned center-right voters. It ain’t gonna happen! If they can’t demonstrate leadership at this perfect opportune time while the Liberals are in disarray what makes them so sure they’d be trusted by center-right voters with anything?
I don’t get it!
I really hate to say this because its insulting but… I wish Peter Brown and other center/right insiders would get out into the REAL world. Because for some of us voting for the NDP is not an option, but neither is supporting Bozo the Clown.
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NW just dropped a nice little “BOMBSHELL”
Imagine this through freedom of information the NDP has located
documents confirming the bidding process to privatize LDB is tainted!
Gee go figure..you mean the LIEberals are not on the up and up?
It just never ends, scandal upon scandal, its getting hard to keep up to this insanity. I keep asking myself is this for real? Since they are all jumping ship like rats are they grabbing what they can before they go at any cost?
Tax payers have had it, they have to go, and now!
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Alex Just read on the news that the liberals had not intention of sell the liquor Distribution branch Until excell submitted theirs WTF can’t those Liberals get nothing right. Jesus Christ what a bunch of morons. I know it is not news to you but I just have to shake my head.Cheers
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I know it’s stunning.
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And now news that they had no intention to sell The LDB Warehouse until the Liberal Bagmen Showed up
http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocal/Story.aspx?ID=1737792
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Bob Mackin and I reported this months ago.
Where were the NDP then?
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This LDB deal has bait and switch written all over it. Exel is not the default winner as the NDP and some MSM think. Alex correctly pointed out the real winner in a May 22nd post.
And that winner is certainly not the taxpayers or consumers of BC alcohol products.
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WOW!!!, bombs going off in Victoria with the Excell/ BC Liberal liquor privatization scam.
Has the NDP finally woke up from their slumber ??
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i would not call it slumber.
i would say it is being intelligent enough to know there is absolutely nothing the liberals can do at this point to win the next election (besides cheating). the next election is the NDP’s to lose, so i think it wise to be cautious and only attack on issue that you are 100% sure of and that will resonate with the public.
i would say its just common sense to sit back and watch the liberals self destruct. besides which at this point the ndp has no real power, they have to get elected to call inquiries and such
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No, not in dead silence. That’s bullshit. That means they shouldn’t be the Opposition.
I should be. Right? Well, they ain’t paying my freight, pal. WE’RE paying theirs.
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Cheating…you said it whierock. I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Jebus (from the Simpsons), I meant whiterock. I love my new computer. The spelling errors are atrocious.
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You seeing this?
http://www.theprovince.com/news/bc/demands+Victoria+halt+liquor+distribution+privatization+plans+over/6924331/story.html
I know, I know. I’m shocked too!
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Yes, I know. I’m writing about it shortly.
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Ms Clark is offering British Colombians a very clear choice, vote for me and my version of crony capitalism or I will leave you to the socialist hordes of the NDP. She would sooner see thousands of BC residents suffer economically than do the right thing.
Ms Clark will be in her bunker next year as they are marching in the new NDP government MLA’s still thinking the election can be won and blaming us for not supporting her.
All demagogues must suffer from the same delusions, whats next, economic scorched earth if she doesn’t get her way? Clearly this women needs to be removed and quickly.
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Reading B.C. history? Personally, if I were on vacation I’d want a good laugh & the best for me is the Annual Collection of Norris cartoons. You can purchase the books at used book stores. They give you a gentle look at B.C. from one of the best cartoonists Canada ever had. There are more than 20 yrly additions.
Then of course there is Ma Murray’s newspapers, but I don’t know where we could find those.
Alex MacDonald, “My Dear Legs”.
Looking forward to your next column.
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Catch Bob Mackin on Simi @ about 1:20 hammer the Dummy and all the assistant dummies over the LDB privitization after NDP release of incredibly damaging documents. This is just BCR all over again.
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Precisely. Yeah, I heard Bob ‘The Hammer’ Mackin. He’s a good friend of mine, we spoke last night and again after his excellent segment with Simi. He’s shaming Sean Leslie and others into covering the tough stuff. A VERY welcome additional to CKNW’s roster. They made a great move in hiring him.
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Wait what, Mackin’s on with NW in an official capacity now?
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Yes, he’s their documentarist. It was only a matter of time. He’s BC top investigative journalist–bar none.
He was supposed to go to a new station, but that proposition is mired in ego and sophistry. Too late to save it.
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Hopefully Christy will be gone sooner with ‘The Hammer’s’ help!
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It’s really Bob’s story. He should feel quite proud of his exceptional work today. He started this all and it’s paid off in spades.
CKNW should also be congratulated for covering this story so completely.
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And this is another reason why we like reading your blog, Alex.
You tell it like it is.
Even when NW slagged you, you still see fit to give credit where credit is due.
Well done.
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Fair is fair.
And those days are gone.
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In all honesty — I think we’re past the point of no return for the BC Libs. They simply do not have the time needed to clean house and turn things around. I spoke with a former Liberal MLA —- he suggests, and I believe he is correct, that there is no one waiting in the wings with enough credibility who would be able to right the ship at this point. Not even Carole Taylor or Dianne Watts could be expected to pull it off and win in less than a year. The NDP are polling near 50% — your headline has it bang-on — Christy is a millstone around the collective necks of the Liberal party. Just as Rita Johnson was unable to revive the Socreds after Bill Vander Zalm and similarly the NDP’s Ujjal Dosanjh after Glen Clark, so too will the Liberal party be smashed into virtual oblivion regardless of who their leader is. The net result is Adrian Dix will be premier 10 months from now and in four years we could be even worse off than now.
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That’s a very fair assessment. Sensible and measured–that’s always what we get from you and it’s appreciated.
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