SmearOftenVille
Well, whadd'ya know...
Kevin Falcon got a local proMedia maven to bite and try and force David Eby to deny a baseless smear recently.
Charlie Smith has the story in the Georgia Straight:
Of course, this is ridiculous on its face given the role of the Attorney General in this province as Mr. Smith clearly points out in his piece.
But that doesn't mean that Mr. Falcon will cease and desist:
All of which begs the question, which is 'Why?'
Not 'why' as in 'why is Mr. Falcon doing this?', given that the smear is has been part of the BC Liberal Party stock and trade for some time now.
Instead, I think the real question is, 'why now?' given that Mr. Eby has not even been elected BCNDP leader yet?
Is it possible that Falcon is out on the hustings bleating demonstrable codswallop precisely because Mr. Eby is the horse the BCL braintrust (still?) fears most and thus wants to face as the real, actual Dipper leader?
If that was the case it could explain Mr. Falcon's Canuckletteresque 'catch and release' /'soft on crime' strategy.
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"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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Well, whadd'ya know...
Kevin Falcon got a local proMedia maven to bite and try and force David Eby to deny a baseless smear recently.
Charlie Smith has the story in the Georgia Straight:
In a recent Global B.C. News interview with Paul Haysom, NDP leadership candidate David Eby was asked to respond to a quote from the leader of the B.C. Liberals...
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..."If you look at crime, for example, his catch-and-release program, you know, he's been running as attorney general since day one has been a disaster," Falcon declared...
Of course, this is ridiculous on its face given the role of the Attorney General in this province as Mr. Smith clearly points out in his piece.
But that doesn't mean that Mr. Falcon will cease and desist:
...The B.C. Liberal leader reiterated this message today (July 21) on The Early Edition on CBC Radio One.
Again, he used the phrase "catch-and-release" to describe Eby's record as attorney general...
All of which begs the question, which is 'Why?'
Not 'why' as in 'why is Mr. Falcon doing this?', given that the smear is has been part of the BC Liberal Party stock and trade for some time now.
Instead, I think the real question is, 'why now?' given that Mr. Eby has not even been elected BCNDP leader yet?
Is it possible that Falcon is out on the hustings bleating demonstrable codswallop precisely because Mr. Eby is the horse the BCL braintrust (still?) fears most and thus wants to face as the real, actual Dipper leader?
If that was the case it could explain Mr. Falcon's Canuckletteresque 'catch and release' /'soft on crime' strategy.
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And then, of course, there's Martyn Brown column in the Straight
https://www.straight.com/news/martyn-brown-a-smarter-strategy-for-changing-bc-liberal-name-dumb-as-that-enterprise-is-for
"For many months or longer, their party will be in limbo, immersed in an exercise that will amount to a campaign in its own right. New questions will emerge as to how to deal with party funds and assets if any constituency association gets its nose out of joint. Even attracting candidates who are not all deep-blue conservatives will be a new and harder challenge for Falcon."
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Elections BC on protected (the past ten years) political party names that are not available to Kevin, except of course British Columbia Liberal Party.
B.C. Vision, Jagmohan Bhandari
BC Indepent Party, Arlyn Greig
BC NDP, John Horgan
British Columbia Action Party, Currently Vacant
British Columbia Direct Democracy Party, John Walsh
British Columbia Liberal Party, Kevin Falcon
British Columbia Libertarian, Keith MacIntyre
British Columbia Social Credit Party, ?? Currently Vacant
Cascadia Party of British Columbia, Troy Gibbons
Christian Heritage Party of British Columbia, Interim Leader Rod Taylor
Communist Party of BC, Kimball Cariou
Conservative Party of British Columbia, Trevor Bolin
Green Party Political Association of British Columbia, Sonia Fursteau
Rural BC Party, Interim Leader Jonathan Van Barneveld
Your Political Party of BC, James Filippeili
I am guessing the occurrence of random street crimes in Vancouver is on par per capita basis to that of Calgary and Edmonton. While there are usually a couple of street or public transit assaults reported every day on Global news in B.C., there are none ever reported on by Global News in either Alberta cities coverage. Can’t imagine why that is other than Global major stock holders like conservative governments.
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