This Day In Snookland...Revision This History.

PipeliningCremeVille
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I spent a lot of time watching Christy Clark play run-and-hide from David Eby while her wizards did their best to suppress student voting in Point Grey last spring.

And not once do I remember the pipeline thing being a major, or even a significant minor, issue in that specific campaign.

But, according to Ms. Clark herself, as 'revealed' to reporters in scrum this weekend in Kelowna, she sacrificed her own seat to take a principled stand on the matter of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

Seriously.

Here's a snippet from JHunter in The Globe:

...Ms. Clark said she was asked to get off the fence (by her own strategists) and take a stand against the pipeline, because the NDP was jeopardizing her party’s support in coastal ridings – including her own Vancouver-Point Grey seat.

“I was confronted with the decision ... I was asked about it, and my immediate response was, ‘forget it, we are not changing our position on this’,” she said...

{snippety doo-dah}

...On Election Day, the NDP succeeded in defeating Ms. Clark in her own riding, but lost the election.

“In the end, standing firm on my values was more important than winning,” Ms. Clark said...


Gosh.

If that was, indeed, the case maybe Ms. Clark really could see the Iron Lady from her dorm room.

And lest you think the revisionist aspect of the the header to this post is hyperbole there is this closer from Ms. Clark:

...“We were on the right side of history.”

That is all.

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