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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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!
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.
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!
As the signs flew out the door and Premier Christy Clark said the BC Conservatives were here to play the spoiler role, I couldn’t help but laugh!
In 2009 when I was on the campaign team of Mary Polak in the role of Fundraising chair, I had occasion to go to the nomination meeting of Gordon Campbell.
Mr.Campbell came out on the stage and in the beginning of his speech waxed eloquent about wanting to be Premier because he owed it to British Columbia to get the province economically sound enough so that his grandchildren could live here, graduate here and get a good job here.
The problem with that speech was that he gave nearly the same one in the late ’90s in Vernon British Columbia. The only difference in the two speeches was that night in Vernon he said he wanted to be Premier so that his Children could live here, graduate here and get a good job here.
As you can see,the only thing that changed in the whole time that Campbell was Premier was that his kids grew up , had kids and the place still wasn’t good enough for them.
Ship ahead to 2011 and say Hello to Christy Clark and her families first agenda. Still the same old,I want to do good for families speech without anything ever happening.
Premier Clark has undertaken to review almost everything, a roll and task that should have been done when she first was a minister back in the early 2000’s.
The B.C Liberals have worn out their welcome with me and a lot of people. Like me those folks went through the motions in the last election because they did not want the NDP to form government.
We have suffered the nineties ( Known as the decade of destruction) under the NDP and continued the suffering in the 2000’S ( known as the decade of deceit) under the BC Liberals.
With the calling of the By-election today we begin ( for some of us continue) the process of restoring our illustrious province to one of respect and dignity. We want to return British Columbia to all those families who have been taxed and gauged over the last 20 years.
It’s time for real change in British Columbia, it’s time to correct the problems that the true spoilers of the wealth in BC Have caused, it’s time for the BC Conservatives !
