I keep checking there for developments in Lingenscam, but it seems a curtain of silence has descended … Buckdog updates! SDA gets results!
Meanwhile, Yens Pedersen is calling for Link’s resignation.
Update: A response from the Lingenfelter camp mouthpiece Judy Junor via a call to John Gormley Live. They’re accusing Pedersen of irresponsibility and demagoguery, and warning that this incident could damage the party if candidates insisted on pursuing it… heh.
When Junor was asked why Lingenfelter himself wasn’t answering the charge, she explained he was on his farm near Shaunavon – where apparently, they still lack phone service.
It gets better – Among the names on the list is Clayton Matchee, the former Canadian soldier who last fall saw charges of torture and murder of a Somali youth in 1993 dropped by the military because he was unfit to stand trial due to brain damage. It was unclear whether Matchee had agreed to join the party.
They’re accusing Pedersen of irresponsibility and demagoguery…
Wouldn’t Pedersen’s “demagoguery” be trumped by Lingenfelter’s “fraud”?
Why all the fuss? It’s only the NDP.
I’ve never been able to understand why a province that was home to those hardy immigrants able and willing to face the harsh winters and sometimes unyielding earth, people who are basically small independent business owners, are incapable of shaking off the scourge that is socialism.
We have shaken off the scourge of socialism but they seem to be having a hard time shaking off us.
Looking at Pederson’s creds, it reads like a breeding ground for wingnuts.
Junor-my parents live in her area. Mention her name and my dad goes apes**t. I don’t think they voted for her.
Lingenberry should resign and move to the oil hotspot of Manitoba where he could help the lefties solve all their problems, and if that doesn’t work, keep moving east, we don’t want you back in Cowtown.
/end of rant.
Someone please pass the popcorn as this show keeps getting better and better. The provincial NDP imploding right before our eyes!
Would you expect any different from the same who brought Bingogate, Fast Ferries, Glen Clark’s back porch (aka Casinogate) and the ruin of BC’s economy? Now that you have Saskaboom, it’s just a bigger tree for them to fall.
I’ve never been able to understand why a province that was home to those hardy immigrants able and willing to face the harsh winters and sometimes unyielding earth, people who are basically small independent business owners, are incapable of shaking off the scourge that is socialism.
Cuz the living is easy with your face in the trough.
Conservatives have always been first in line for swill.
Those poor folks in the Shaunavon district would sure like to move into the 21 century with the rest of the world. The rest of Saskatchewan is probably not aware that the district still has overhead phone lines that lead to an old switchboard. The operators there are well into their 80’s and if they retire that whole area will be without phone service.
Poor Dwayne – still has one of those crank-up phones. I think to call him you have to be patched through to the old Shaunavon operators and say something like “line 1 – ring 2 please” Then if the phone is actually working you might get ahold of Dwayne to ask him why he feels he needs to cheat in order to win.
‘I’ve never been able to understand why a province that was home to those hardy immigrants able and willing to face the harsh winters and sometimes unyielding earth, people who are basically small independent business owners, are incapable of shaking off the scourge that is socialism’.
Sask fell to the same stupidity as the Yukon. The Conservatives went AWOL and so Conservatives stayed home for ONE election. As soon as the Dippers got power they imported lots of Dippers from outside the province, eager for a gov’t paycheck, to roost in the cities. These newcommers outvoted the real Sask. residents and Sask. was doomed to years in the footnotes of Canada. In the last election the Dippers in the gument retracted to self intrest because many are all old enough to retire – they needed pension money! They knew the Dippers (who they worked for) had no idea how to generate money so they, with a few Alta. oil field residents outvoted the gument Dippers not ready to retire.
Very simple. Dippers are selfish, they always take care of themselves first.
Conservatives never suceed when they try to act like Dippers (as shown by the Sask. Conservatives that fell to the Dippers).
Somehow, putting NDP and brian damage (re: Clayton Matchee)together just seems so natural.
I’ve never been able to understand why a province that was home to those hardy immigrants able and willing to face the harsh winters and sometimes unyielding earth, people who are basically small independent business owners, are incapable of shaking off the scourge that is socialism
Actually, for the time being, those people have shaken off the scourge; they just haven’t yet expunged it.
Actually, for the time being, those people have shaken off the scourge; they just haven’t yet expunged it.
Actually…what exactly has Brad Wall done differently???
Hmmm, glasnost, Texas, jema….hmmm? What you ignoramuses don’t know about SK could fill volumes.
One is reminded that it is better to remain silent
and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.
SDA gets results?
Could well be. Buckdog finally made a post about it.
Kate, are the news services out there so slow that he got our 5th election in 11 years here in NS first? Or could there possibly be another reason????????
“The NDP couldn’t run a peanut stand” W.A.C. Bennett
philboy, the Clark NDP drove me out of BC, at the time my friends thought I was nuts, soon I felt bad for them.
I also survived the Barret NDP so I am working on the third data point when I state the long tenure of the NDP here poisoned the name Saskatchewan in the minds of businessmen near and far. Mr. Wall need do no more than not be the NDP, and be seen that way. Like the Soviets, the NDP sat on vast wealth and could not exploit it by attracting business. The first socialist government jurisdiction in North America is now reaping the benefit of losing the chains of that proven failure.
A long time in the desert for them.
Jed Clampett, the old Beverly Hillbilly, who discovered oil on his land and moved to Beverly Hills, may have the most accurate assessment of all. Explaining to cousin
Jethro, old Jed made the comment, “A politician is lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut”.
Its one thing to try and pull a fast one on the opposition party or maybe on the unsuspecting voters, but to try and slide one by your own party, well does it get any lower than that.
NDP Leadership candidate Dwain Lingenfelter has now apoligized for what he said was the work of an “overexuberant” volunteer who had done a mass sign-up of new NDP members, in most cases without their desire, consent or in some cases, they didn’t even know about it.
Overexuberant ? I’ll say. One person signed up over 1100 members and no-one in the Lingenfelter camp knew about it? No-one in the NDP questioned this?
So many questions. So few answers. Who collected the money? Where was it sent to?
The NDP must be doing pretty well if $10,000 can slide around and no-one notices it.
Where would the membership cards be sent to? Did they get sent out to 1100 different addresses or to one address? If they went to one address shouldn’t someone have spotted that?
Yens Pederson, another leadership hopeful, says Lingenfelter should resign.
Lingenfelter backer, Judy Junor, was quick to call a radio talk show and slam Pederson. Junor asks the question, Does Pederson think he is the last moral man standing?
Well Judy the way the NDP is going, maybe he is. At any rate wouldn’t you expect something better from the man most think will win the NDP leadership race and I don’t know about you, but I would expect a lot more from the man who wants to be Premier of the province.
The NDP was quick to critize Brad Wall for allowing his teen-age daughter to drive without a licence on a grid road while learning. Somehow I think that pales a little to this attempt to steal away the campaign.
Since Lingenfelter could have won without a leadership campaign what gain is there in such a risky game? But clearly, there is a structure loose enough for opportunists.
In Chicago, organized crime buying political influence is a tradition. It even goes back to the days of Al Capone.
Only here no one is going to appoint an Elliot Ness and the Untouchables. Here the only ‘untouchables’ are on the dark side.
Some time in the forseeable future there will be an attempt to control a number of polling stations and the results will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
I remember some years ago having a fellow passenger explain to me how Mexican elections worked.
philboy, I grew up in the Cypress Hills. Some of my family live in Sask. My family has been paying land taxes (until 1914 there was no income tax in Canada) in Sask. since 1897. How long have you lived in Sask?
What do you know that you claim I don’t know? Are you a gument worker who voted FOR your pension money when you saw the balance book of Culvert and his pals?
“He doth protest too much” – does that rattle any brain bells?
Jema, as evidence of your ignorance, one has only to read your inane, vacuous post of 3:33.
I guess I was right about you then, philboy.
I guess I was right about you then, philboy.
Posted by: Jema54
Whatever that means.
On second thought, who cares what you mean? I’ll put the question to you. Ask your SK relatives.
What has Wall done that is not a continuation of
NDP governance? I mean, beyond a tweak here and a tweak there, and some nominal anti-worker labour legislation to make the world safe for Walmart.
And don’t come forward with Dana’s ludicrous assertion that doing the same thing under a different banner is enough.
philboy said: “What has Wall done that is not a continuation of
NDP governance? I mean, beyond a tweak here and a tweak there, and some nominal anti-worker labour legislation to make the world safe for Walmart.
And don’t come forward with Dana’s ludicrous assertion that doing the same thing under a different banner is enough. ”
Hmmm, let’s see – and without consulting the interwebs – 1) lowered my taxes, increased the personal exemption (thereby actually helping lower income taxpayers), 2) fixed and are fixing a lot more roads than Culvert and his crew were able,
3) Kept almost all, but not all, his campaign promises. the Green targets were shite anyway, so I will let him pass on that.
4) Got rid of a pile of deputy ministers who were still tools of the NDP.
Okay, those are four more things they did to help us all than what the socialists were able to do.
Oh yeah, number 5, they got rid of the NDP government. That was huge.