Tuesday, June 13, 2017

TDDIC...Andrew Wilkinson Makes Like LBJ.

Baseless
IsVille


A long, long time ago...

"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.



And then, today, NL Radio's Shane Woodford fell for the same oft-used BCLiberal strate(r)gy all over again:

The BC Liberals are pouncing over the suggestion the NDP and Green pact was predicated on prying a Liberal MLA away to fill the Speaker role.

New Attorney General Andrew Wilkinson says Green Party leader Andrew Weaver has admitted it was discussed in talks with the NDP but never made it into the final agreement.

"Well it seems that the Greens and the NDP never reached an understanding about who would be the Speaker and where the Speaker would come from. Now it turns out that one of the sides thought it was coming from the Liberal ranks, and that is not going to happen. The other side didn't even turn their mind to it so they are going to have some real tensions between the Greens and the NDP as they figure out where to go next."...

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...For their part Green Party leader Andrew Weaver and party officials are denying aspects of the story and saying there is no kind of tension or infighting between themselves and NDP.




The question is, who will use Mr. Woodford's cut-out to start the wurlitzer cranking?

My money is on the good Ms. Mills.

Although I would take pretty short odds on Mr. Advantage.


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Of course, it is entirely possible that Mr. Woodford has some actual verifiable evidence, obtained either from Mr. Wilkinson and/or elsewhere, of all this 'tension' going down...Unfortunately, nothing of that sort made its way into the bit.
TDDIC?....This Day In Doomed Clarkland, as per usual.


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10 comments:

Crankypants said...

Sam Sullivan made the same assertions on CKNW this morning. There seems to be a concerted effort to convince the public and the Lieutenant Governor that there should be a new election called. My guess is that the Liberals are scared shitless that the NDP-Green attempt to govern will actually succeed and show that proportional representation is a viable form of governance.

RossK said...

Thanks CP--

Sure seems like that faux cabinet post has brought Smilin' Sammy back into the fold.

Sure hope any and all wizards still remaining in the BCL bunker are wearing throat protection (scroll down).


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Crankypants said...

Actually Mike Smyth, who is subbing for Simi Sara this week, had quite an unbiased collection of guests today. There was a spokesman for the ICBA and Jas Johal expounding on the virtues of Christy & Co. and dissing the NDP and Greens.

It looks as if the Liberals and their money men are putting a full court press which may explain why the Legislature is not resuming until June 22.

Anonymous said...

I have trouble understanding what all the kerfluffle about the Speaker is. The Speaker can vote if there is a tie. So what's the big deal if the Speaker has to vote?

RossK said...

Thanks again CP--

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Anon-Above--

There is none.

This is a faux crisis foisted on us by the puffed-up punditry (I recall that even Andrew Coyne threw his hat in the ring quite early on) after a little initial wurlitzering by the usual suspects.

And now, it has come to the pols...

It's pure playbook of the Ailes/Atwater/Rovian kind in my view.


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Anonymous said...

https://omny.fm/shows/the-jon-mccomb-show/is-there-really-infighting-between-bcndp-bc-greens

RossK said...

Anon-Above--

Make the bastards deny it, indeed.

The wurlitzer circle is complete.


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Lenin's Ghost said...

I prefer to call the asslicker, Slimy Sam. He's nearly as disgusting as corporate Christy.

RossK said...

LG--

It's most interesting to see that their fates have become so intertwined.

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RossK said...

But, then again, perhaps that was inevitable, as illustrated by Sean Holman's invaluable archives, indicate, from the...

...Beginning.



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