Is There A Way To Out 'Clark' Ms. Clark?

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From the round-up of the recent all-candidate's debate in the riding no longer owned by Ben Stewart (either now or, apparently, in 2017) by Castanet.net 'Staff':

...Clark may have gotten got the biggest and most positive response (form the audience) for her willingness to tackle the issue of a second bridge over Okanagan Lake saying “I believe it’s time for us to start planning a second crossing,

“Let’s get to work on it now,” said the premier. “If we can do it in the lower mainland, we can do it here.”...

Hmmmmm....

First off, there is the minor matter that Ms. Clark is not promising the arrival of a bridge (with the sparkle ponies and unicorns) sometime around the time 'StarTrek99 The Never-Ending Generation' comes out.

Instead, Ms. Clark is currently promising Lower Mainlander's a tunnel.

We think.

So nevermind any and all comparisons with that multi-billion dollar Icebomb Bridge that The Birdman built while he simultaneously put the squeeze on the budgets of Ministries that actually do actual stuff for actual British Columbians.

Because here's the real thing from the Westside-Kelowna debate....

Dipper Carole Gordon responded to Ms. Clark's balderdash in a careful, thoughtful manner that was based on reality and a true understanding of the local situation (i.e. she came off as someone who actually knows what the heckfire she is talking about). Not that something so trivial as that actually matters these days:

...(Ms. Clark's) adversary, (Carole) Gordon, was less convinced the second bridge idea is a good one, instead chastising designers of the current bridge for not building enough lanes in the first place, and wondered about taking on such an expense.

“The question is, how are we going to pay for it,” said Gordon.

Gordon was more specific and passionate about another transportation topic, namely Westside Road which has been voted the worst, and possibly most dangerous, in the province on more than one occasion.

“Westside Road needs to be brought up to provincial standard,” said Gordon.

Also on the subject of transportation was the West Kelowna couplet which dissects the downtown area by having separate highways for traffic going north and traffic driving south, thereby dividing the downtown region into three areas...


So...

How should Ms. Gordon have responded in this, the current 'she said/she said', media landscape if she wants to really win at all/any cost?

Well...

For starters, she should have said she has already offered the proprietors of the Dairy Queen on the outskirts of Westside a cool 5 million so that she can tear the old, tired ice cream emporium down.

Then, she would get to work building a second, even more expensive (let's say a cool billion), super suped-up version of BC Place (with free ice cream and vodka spritzer fountains for all 24/7 - and double that in the summer months).

Because with a plan like that everybody wins.

Especially if you sell-off, say, Vernon, in its entirety to pay for it.

OK?

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And besides, if we don't squander all our treasure and resources doing crazy, crony pocket-lining stuff like this how the heck will finest of the fine folks like the Goodship Watercarrier be able to constantly brush  actual British Columbians aside who want their government and its Ministries to actually do stuff for actual people with a rejoinder that pretty much always goes something like this..."But how we will pay for that school/hospital/apprentice program/housing for the adult disabled/wheelchair program for the elderly without raising taxes?!"...

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