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Voters in mock byelection want Emerson to resign
Sun 05 Mar 2006 CBC News
Voters in David Emerson's riding are putting more pressure on him to resign following his defection to the Conservatives after being elected as a Liberal in the Jan. 23 federal election.
More than 900 people in his Vancouver-Kingsway riding voted in a mock election on Saturday. Nearly 95 per cent said they want Emerson to resign and run in a byelection.
It was a straw vote held at a few street corners around the riding for three hours, between 1:00pm and 4:00pm, on a reasonably nice early spring afternoon in Vancouver.
And after getting the youngest to and from tap dance class and then helping get some of the stuff required for her seven year old birthday party the next day (we had Starchild do the honours - she's fantastic), I arrived at Main and 26th just before 2pm to do my duty.
It was a fabulous scene - young/old; hip/square; Lib/NDP/Green; all ethnicities, and everybody was happy to vent about the betrayal, especially a very nice older lady who explained that she had worked like heck banging on doors for Mr. Emerson because she bought into his pre-election codswallop about how important it was for Canada and all it stands for to keep the CPC from gaining power.
Heckfire - just imagine if the thing had been formalized and if it had run all day long.
Regardless, as I've said before, I don't actually want Mr. Emerson to go.
Why?
Because I want to see him hanging from the neck of Mr. Harper like a huge bling bling-encrusted millstone from now until election day.
Nice mind's eye image, no?
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