Ms. Clark and Mr. Campbell Are Forever Joined At The Hip...

....By The Knotty Gordian.

"He was sunk in despair. He was desperate... he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to.....accuse his high-riding opponent (the pig farmer) of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children... His campaign manager was shocked. 'We can't say that, Lyndon,' he said. 'It's not true.' 'Of course it's not,' Johnson barked at him, 'but let's make the bastard deny it.'..."

Hunter Thompson, on Lyndon Johnson's 1948 Congressional Campaign.

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" ...this is a tremendous wedge issue being handed to us on a silver platter! Please spread the word to your contacts."

Irene Barr, President, BC Liberal Women's Commission
In an E-Mail to supporters sent before publication of The Smear

"Late last night, British Columbians learned of a BC Teachers Federation secret plan to hold a strike vote days after the provincial election. It’s a duplicitous plan meant to engineer a school strike only weeks before provincial exams that would throw our school system into chaos. It’s obvious that both the NDP and the BCTF have been trying to hide their true intentions. They’ve run a campaign of deception, half truths and misinformation."

Gordon Campbell, On The Campaign Trail, May 12, 2005

"This is a totally manufactured issue."

Rod Mickleburgh, May 14, 2005 on CBC's 28 Days

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With her poll ratings at new lows, Christy Clark, the B.C. Premier, opted to open the province’s spring legislative session not with a throne speech, but with a 90-minute appearance at a Vancouver radio station in which she took a shot at striking teachers’ unions.

“I am just not interested in raising taxes to pay for public sector wage increases,” she told Bill Good, the AM CKNW host, adding, “We are not able to give teachers the raise they want."...

{snippety doodle-dandy}

...After “73 negotiating sessions with the teacher’s union … there’s been almost no movement,” Ms. Clark said.

She added she was “not terribly optimistic” a settlement would be reached, opening the possibility teachers would ultimately be legislated back to work...

The Go-To Natty-Po, Feb 13, 2012

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