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B.C.Liberals trot Vampire Chuck Strahl out of the coffin yet again!

Chuck Strahl : Boo! Don't Split the Vote!

They must think the voters of Chilliwack Hope are stupid.

Every couple of weeks, the B.C.Liberals open up the retired coffin door and out creaks Chuck Strahl with his vote splitting horror stories.

B.C. Liberals don’t get it. The people will not be told their vote is a waste of time if they vote for anybody but the Liberals.

Chuck Strahl spoke at the nomination and then espoused his BS in the Vancouver Sun. He has been with the BC Liberal campaign since day one.

In fact trotting him out today is an act of desperation from government on it’s last legs.

The people of Chilliwack know that and won’t fall for that crap.

Over and above the NDP, they have a choice. They can vote for John Martin a Conservative that runs on his own merits or they can Vote for a Faux Conservative who runs under a Liberal Banner.

The people of Chilliwack are smart, they will do the right thing.

Don’t you think?

Christy Clark sinks to a new low!

Christy Clark : I am the straw that stirs the B.C.Liberal drink!

It’s barely 8:30 in the morning and the Premier has reached a new low. Angus Reid released a poll showing the Premier Christy Clark to be Canada’s least popular Premier. This is quite a feat given that she is competing for the title with the likes of Jean Charest in Quebec.

Of course Charest has been the Premier since 2003 so unlike Premier Clark,the population of his province has had a number of years to build up the dislike for him.

Yesterday’s resignation of John Van Dongen from her caucus was a prime example of why the public has no respect for the Premier.

This was a major blow to her team and she was nowhere to be seen.

More than likely,given all the gaffes she has made recently,she was probably muzzled by her handler, ( If you have a handler does this mean you are not really running the province?) Ken Boessenkool.

Premier Clark suffered the largest drop of any sitting head of government.

So Premier Clark tell us again ? Why did you hire Sara MacIntyre and Ken Boessenkool?

Oh yea to help improve your image and keep your caucus under control.

How do you like the results?

John Van Dongen Joins the BC Conservatives!

In a major blow to the Christy Clark B.C. Liberals MLA John Van Dongen has torn up his membership and joined the BC Conservatives.

This gives the upstart Conservatives their first MLA.

This occurs on the heels of a scathing indictment in the Globe and Mail relative to MS.Clark’s government.

It also gives the BC Conservative party serious momentum heading into the April 19th By-election day.

Adrian Dix Nabbed On Sky Train without a ticket!

This should be a bigger deal than the MSM is making it out to be. The man who wants to be Premier,who wants to lead our Province was caught on a Sky Train without a ticket.

Adrian Dix says it’s one of those things and he feels bad.

I wonder if he feels bad because he made a mistake or if he feels bad because we was caught?

Mr.Dix knows how bad it feels to get caught. He has been caught before when he backdated a memo when we was Glen Clark’s assistant.

Seems Dix has a habit of doing things that are bad and feeling bad when he gets caught.

Why would you want to vote for a man who breaks the law and passes it off so easily?

What do you think he will say when he breaks the promises he will make leading up to the election?

Bob Rae to run for permanent Leader of Liberal Party?

Bob Rae ‏ @bobraeMP

Watched Tiger win again and saw a couple of attack ads on yours truly. He came back. I guess I can too. LOL.

Does the above tweet represent Marijuana Bob Rae’s first public admission that he wants to run to be the official Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada? Was his tweet an ill advised slip of the tongue?

What do you think?

Christy Clark Shuffles the Deck!

Premier Christy Clark as shuffled the deck of the Titanic also known as the good ship B.C.Liberal.

Today, with the recent departure of Harry Bloy ( he who leaked the email ) , John Yap was given the former minister’s post.

You recall when Harry got the post it was a demotion, so don’t expect a ton out of John. In fact the statement that John made was that he was a minister in the free enterprise choice for British Columbians.

Uh No John you are not. I read your parties by-election signs, You are a minister in the Christy Clark B.C.Liberals a totally different thing.

In other shuffling , Moira Stillwell and Ron Howard were named Parliamentary Secretaries.

It will be to see what’s left or should I say right of this party after the April 19th by-elections.

It’s Mulcair ; Now what ?

Thomas Mulcair has won the leadership of the Federal NDP and is the new leader of the opposition , Now what?

He will more than likely move the party to the center and most likely very quickly.

What will this mean to Canadian politics?

First and foremost it will almost certainly force the Liberal party of Canada to advance their own leadership convention.

Why?

Because Mulcair and the NDP will devour the Liberals if they get control of the center and Marijuana Bob wouldn’t like that.

Also the interim leader of the Liberal Party, under it’s constitution, cannot negotiate a merger with the NDP. They need a permanent leader, it’s as simple as that.

What else?

It will probably force a lot of the extreme leftists that are currently have a home in the NDP to go somewhere else. ( Hello Elizabeth May and the Green Party you belong together )

Anything else?

Yes the right side of the Liberal Party will likely bolt to the Conservatives rather than join the NDP.

That it?

No the Bloc had hopes and aspirations going into today. Thomas Mulcair probably killed them off.

Anything good come of all this?

Yes likely the Liberal Party as you know it is done, so is the Bloc?

Any last thoughts?

Yes given all the mayhem and delays in the voting today , Rebecca Blaikie handle herself well. She is a good President of the NDP and has a lot to be proud of.

Ballot #2 Goodbye Peggy Nash!

Probably a good call for the NDP.

When asked who she supported for the leadership she gave the usual old school gibberish about they all would make a great leader and I have made my vote.

The problem is people don’t want vague answers anymore. They want leaders with stones.

Peggy you don’t have them , goodbye and well done NDP!

Mulcair leads handily with 38% of the vote, Tapp at 25% and Cullen at 19.9 heading into the third Ballot!

Today it’s all about the Federal NDP

Round one is in the books and it goes to Mulcair although not by as much as he would have liked.

The curious thing about the vote, like general elections, is that not many people voted.

At this point 49.97% of the NDP’s membership has cast a vote for one of the candidates.

What makes this continuing voter phenomena so shocking is that during a leadership vote only paid members can vote.

When political parties sell memberships one of the value statements they make and that people is that for your $10 or $15 you can make your mark on the party by choosing it’s next leader.

To me it’s shocking that more members would vote. I think it also blows holes in the theory put out there by some people that voting in general elections should be mandatory otherwise you get fined.

People just don’t seem to want to get involved!

It will be interesting to see how this compares with the turnout at the Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention given in January they changed the rules to allow a free supporter category to vote for the leader.

What do you think?

Premier Christy Clark in the running for an award!!!!!

Christy Clark: I am in the running for an award!

It seems every time she speaks the Premier is not only wrong but mixes the facts up.

This is the person who is supposed to lead our province through tough economic times and she cannot keep her facts straight.

Gary Mason has a great piece today detailing her ineptitude and her breath taking gaffes .

You should read it and then ask yourself two questions, namely ” What the heck is this person doing as Premier ?” and “What on earth were the B.C. Liberals thinking when they anointed her as leader last year?”

Off course if you read this excellent piece by Alex G. Tsakumis , you know they weren’t thinking at all, they were conned!

Now what?

Time to award this week’s winner and it’s a tie !

The Bonehead of the week award goes to the whole B.C. Liberal team, lead of course by Premier unelect Christy Clark!