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A few notes for this weepy Sunday morning coming down...
A few notes for this weepy Sunday morning coming down...
Data guy, whose work I miss in the Vancouver Sun, Chad Skelton, has been tracking the rate of change in the close ridings in the BC Election so far. He presents a cogent case that none of the ridings where the NDP has a slight lead will flip Con. Conversely, he does think that Surrey Guildford, but not Kelowna Centre will change from blue to red....4.5 Stars.Speaking of the Vancouver Sun....Vaughn Palmer blames Sonia Furstenau for sticking by her principles and not playing footsie with John Rustad because, apparently, it will prevent her from gaining leverage over David Eby. What's worse, the Dean of the Legislative Press Gallery, with an assist from current BC Conservative supporter Andrew Weaver, blames Furstenau, who was not the leader at the time, for doing the same thing in 2017.... 0.5 Stars.It's very difficult for anyone who has been following election updates, even official Elections BC updates, on social media feeds not to notice that the whackaloons are already starting to bleat about voting machines, unreasonable delays, phone-assisted voting, 'late' votes and Brinks trucks, et cetera....Negative Eleventy Billion Stars.
Want more on Mr. Kristofferson, including the genesis for his biggest hit?...This.
With the Greens two seats and Fursteneau's electoral blunders, the best course is not to play footsie with anyone until their are firm numbers in the Leg.
ReplyDeleteAny complaints about voting machines, etc. is pure MAGA ooze from down south and any politician who complains should be viewed with contempt.
I have to agree with your views on Fursteneau's blunders, after her years as an MLA she still has no political savvy , only nice words!
DeleteVaughn Palmer is but a shill for the right wing carbon moguls.
An NDP , Green collaboration has at least one problem a problem that put the Cons on the map; Drugs!
Like Eby , Sonia is soft on drugs.
Throwing more taxpayers money to treatment and feel good 'treat them with respect' policies without providing the firm hand of forced treatment and after care is bound to fail.
I know one person that was 'sent' to a private rehabilitation centre here on Vancouver Island who had multiple addictions. That person is now lives, thankfully, a normal life.
Fursteneu's girl guide and Eby's boy scout approach has had it's day, time to move on and create something new.
TB
Wouldn't it be 'neat' if the candidates to be a Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly were required NOT to be affiliated with any party. No voting along party lines. Not being told by a grumpy old person to vote (against your wishes)
ReplyDeleteThat would entail voting for an MLA plus one?
ReplyDeletetook the suggestion for "This" Kristofferson and that was taking me back. As I'm reading it mentions his song, Lucinda Williams who I haven't listened to in a couple of decades and remembered how good she was and the Rambling Jack Elliott name popped up. Hadn't thought of him in years, well decades. For some reason he was in Vancouver in the 1970s and came along to a friend's home a couple of times, while I was there. People sometimes did that. Don't think they had known each other from previous careers, but would have moved in the same circles while in New York. She had a beautiful voice but never sang professionally again, once she quit. Actually only heard her sing around the house a couple of times over 50 years. Amazing voice. Sometimes when we go through different times and then move on, its almost weird when some thing reminds us of who we once were. But it is fun. Makes you remember.
ReplyDeleteNVG, would it be neat, not so much,, but any politician can vote as they want, its just that they would have to face consequences and not many are brave enough to do that. I'm sure there have been politicians who have voted against their party and "lived".
There is something to be said for voting along party lines, at least things move along and you know what you're going to get. In our world, if there were not political parties we might find that politicians would vote according to who paid them last, etc. Now it maybe said that already is going on, because of lobbyists, but my take on human nature is people would just vote for their own interests and not for the people who voted for them. At least in the current system a few things get done ever decade or so.