The Liberal candidate who almost staged a major political upset in Brandon-Souris last year says he only lost the 2013 byelection because of meddling by the national Liberal office,
Rolf Dinsdale issued a scathing letter on Facebook on Friday, saying he won’t be seeking the nomination for the riding again and that “the Liberal Party has made deciding not to run an easy choice for me to make.”
h/t Mike
I note the federal Grits say they threw everything but the kitchen sink at the riding, including cash and (gasp!) 3 visits by Shiny Pony himself. I wonder what the correlation is between the number of visits to the riding by Shiny Pony and the lower chances of getting elected. if Brandon is anything to go by, it’s the higher the former, the lower the latter.
So we have a situation where you may not be able to pick a favoured, though you may consider picking a bigger jack ass.
Even then the decision could be most challenging.
The presstitutes might not admit it, but it seems like the voters of Brandon made the right choice.
Wasn’t he the guitar player in Kinsellas “band”?
In this case it seems Justin Trudeau pulled defeat from the jaws of victory.
That all depends on the how the media will ‘handle’ this.
Harper is the dictator, remember/
Trudeau is definitely not doing Liberal candidates any favours by dropping into the riding for a visit.
Hopefully he will decide to give Ralph Goodale a little personal support and help to rid the Saskatchewan electoral map of the one solitary glitch.
You mean it wasnt those medling kids and the dog? Liberals are such sore losers
When will Gooddale retire? He was first elected to Parliament in 1974 and surely can’t be there much longer.
Ritalin Boy…
http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2013/10/12/why-dont-professional-canadian-journalists-point-out-that-shit-from-hell-is-warren-kinsellas-punk-band/
Paul; Gooddale did retire. What we see is the normal over talking hand puppet from the prog hand book. The hand book written by Saul Alinsky. This appears to be the handbook used by Trudeau Pere’ and Trudeau scion.
I have come to believe it is also the hand book the U.S.A. Democrats gave to a very young Barak Obama. The level of competence seems to be the same. Probably Trudeau scion wished for in depth study and therefore brought the Democrat politicos North to help Justin instruct transparency to his own Librano politicos.
Schadenfreude. SO many of the LPC/Justin fan crowd on the ‘net have this battle cry,”Justin’s gonna do politics differently”, but almost every day he shows he is the typical political Leader following in the footsteps of every other Liberal leader since the 60’s, just a lot dumber.
Unlike the evil fascist Harper, our l’il Justin will operate in an honest,open, transparent manner, they say,like the childlike naifs they are.
I’m worried a lot less now that the psuedo-messiah is showing his true colors to those who don’t believe in fairy tales and political saviours. I believe grownups will be the downfall of the manchild that is Chauncey Trudeau.
I hate the parachuting of candidates,it’s the most undemocratic thing about our flawed political process, select the candidates chosen at the local level or don’t run one at all.
So a Liberal dickhead doesn’t get to be a Real Liberal Dickhead, and….we’re supposed to feel what? Sorry?
I mean, what’s more repulsive…the slug or the slime?
which Blues Brother was he supposed to be?
It was more of an upset that Dinsdale lost, not that he came close to winning.
Polls had him ahead up to election day, and Dinsdale and Trudeau thought it was going to be a cakewalk. Till the actual results came in. Btw, the Brandon Sun is published by the Winnipeg Free Press (read Liberal) outfit, not the national SUN newspaper chain. So that explains the revisionist history.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/forum-poll-highlights-need-for-skepticism-233724631.html
Not only were the people of Brandon unhappy with Shiny Pony’s anointed candidate and election putsch, but the progressive incumbent as Mayor, S. Decter-Hirst lost this fall to a conservative former city counsellor.
Off topic, but try to guess (if you don’t already know) who the Alberta Revenue minister is.
Was the meddling Liberal Party apparatchik named Spiny Norman by any chance?