Category: Government

And away we go. Grit candidate Glen Pearson took a swing at his Dipper rival, Megan “never met a man I couldn’t blame for everything” Walker, over the latter’s gleefully opportunistic Munschausen-by-proxy over the turd typhoon (mostly of her own making) surrounding former Pearson campaign worker Dave Burghardt’s blogular musings:

“She took that and torched him,” Pearson said. “She torched the guy. That is as sick as they come.”

Torched the guy? 😯 Sounds like strong language; coming from a firefighter and all. But come on now, Glen; seriously, what did you expect?? YOU were the one that handed her this goose that laid the golden clanger on your campaign rug; remember? This was you, if I recall:

“I did say to her, ‘Megan, it is up to you and your team what you want to do about it, but Dave is a friend of mine,’ and I hoped she would do the right thing. These kinds of things can affect a person and I wanted her to be thinking about that.”

Haskett, meanwhile, has been taking the high road and having nothing to do with the fracas and Grand Treehugger Liz May (trying to BoGarth as much good press as she can) is urging both the Librano$ and Dippomotami to just drop the damn thing, already:

“We’ve only got two weeks left and we should be talking about issues that concern the voters,” she said.

The finger-pointing goes on full steam ahead, though, as Walker yaps that “interception of private communications is illegal,” while Pearson retorts, “Megan says we intercepted an e-mail but we did not. We got it in a mailbox. There was no secret.” The cops, as you can likely guess, want sweet bugger all to do with this idiocy:

Meanwhile, London police said they’re not looking further into the issue of how the Pearson campaign got hold of an internal NDP e-mail suggesting how the “golden” scandal could be exploited to help “bring down a Liberal.”

Also in London, Garth Nader blew into town to stump for May, Ralph Goodale pumped up Pearson (and badmouthed Haskett) and Diane Finley popped by while Haskett talked tough on crime.

Last but not least: DO NOT FORGET that the advance polls are scheduled Nov. 17, 18 and 20, from noon to 8 p.m. at locations listed on your voter ID cards. If you’re going to be busy on the 27th, be sure to vote early. You can also vote early by special ballot at the returning office at Galleria London until Nov. 21; Monday to Friday from 9 til 9, Saturday, 9 til 6, and Sunday from noon to 4. Any questions? Call the returning office at 1-866-241-7804.

And now, the links (yes, I know there’s never much on the race in Repentigny, but I’m just not finding that much…):

The Freeps
Walker ‘torched the guy’: Pearson
May gets a hand from rebel Turner
Haskett plays crime card
Campaign notebook

Okay, everybody. After getting a big ol’ bunch of requests for it, I’ve finally made a new (temporary) category just for the November 27 byelection. A lot of people were complaining that finding all the posts was a bit of a pain because they had multiple tags and other stuff was cluttering up the results as they were searching. 🙄

Well, now there’s a seperate category. After the byelection, I’ll just delete it but until then, go nuts.  Never let it be said that I can’t be accommodating when I want to. 😆

Gee whiz, guys; I didn’t know you cared. 😆 I’ve only been ranting now for about six months and, while I’ve somehow managed to rack up over 12,000 visitors in that time, I had no idea just what kind of, er… interesting folks… were popping by to check out the stuff percolating up from the muck and the mire at the bottom of my brain. Then, the other day, I noticed this (click for a bigger look-see):

I figured I must have been drawing a few folks’ interest but, dang; the House of Commons?? Shucks, guys; I didn’t know ya cared… 😀

Cheers

Okay; it’s about time. After a few weeks of snoozefesting, things are finally starting to show some signs of life in the race to replace Joe Bananas in London North Centre. Things are getting kinda crowded around here, too. With the Tories, Dippers and Granola Grinders all trotting out bigwig to parade about, it’s getting downright windy in the Forest City.

Federal Justice Minister Vic Toews popped in to toot the law-and-order horn with Dianne Haskett (are the Librano$ even aware of that instrument? Oh, yeah; Adscam…). Haskett, true to her word, has waited until all the municipal madness has passed before kicking her campaign into high gear.
Interim Grit poohbah Bill Graham swooped in to join Glen Pearson in the caterwauling about how big, bad, creepycrawly Tory Dianne is “on the extreme right of a party that is already to the extreme right.” Be afraid now, little sheep. Be very afraid.

Meanwhile, to no one’s surprise, Treehugger Liz May’s political sugar daddy turns out to be none other than Garth Nader himself. The Baron of Blab will be in town today to try to drum up votes for the Gaia Gang. Forget it Garth; these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

To give a little credit where it’s due, both Haskett and May have wrinkled their noses at the fracas over Dave “DOH!” Burghardt’s recent political self-immolation:

Haskett: “I’m sorry, I’m not going to jump into the fray.“

May: “Everyone has told me Glen Pearson is a fine human being. Let’s move on, let’s focus on the issues.“

As for Burghardt himself, he has wasted no time at all firing off a letter to the editor, published in today’s Freeps, that could just as easily have began with “quia peccavi; nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa:“

Pearson ex-staffer makes public apology for distasteful blog

I am truly sorry for a number of things I wrote on a personal blog. Some of the things I wrote cannot be excused. I take full responsibility for any pain I have caused.

In particular, comments made about the Muslim community were born out of my own ignorance. I continue to learn more about the Islamic faith and gain a great appreciation of its desire for peace.

Other comments about the Liberal party, same-sex marriage and women’s right to vote were meant tongue in cheek. For crossing the line into rudeness and cruelty, I apologize. I was insensitive and I was wrong.

I have stopped posting to the website. I realized that my voice was becoming just another angry voice. The world doesn’t need anymore angry voices.

My indiscretions are my own and should in no way reflect on anyone other than me.

David Burghardt

London

I guess nobody ever bothered to tell ol’ Dave that there isn’t much point in falling on your sword when somebody else has already stuck you in the backside with it.

And now, some links:

The Freeps
All-candidates meeting set for tomorrow
Intrigue in cyberspace
Campaign trail gets crowded
Cabinet minister stumps for Haskett
CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK

Well, it’s been an interesting day, hasn’t it? If you haven’t heard already, neither the Tories, nor the Dippers, nor anyone else needed to do anything to kablooie the wheels off Librano Glen Pearson’s MP-wannabe bandwagon; HypoGrit Dave Burghardt did it for them. The Dippers were so ecstatic about it, they could barely contain themselves and promptly fired off a lovely indignant and snotty memo to everyone that they could spam with it.

Meanwhile, over at the Tory camp, John Q. Londoner is still waiting to hear what’s on Dianne’s mind (but then again, I haven’t been home to check my email yet)… Okay, time for the links:

The Freeps
Blog broadsides Liberal campaign
‘Bringing down a Liberal’

Vancouver Sun
Liberal worker in hot water over blog

Globe & Mail
Liberal candidate’s aide steps down for on-line remarks about women, gays
In the Forest City, two kinds of Tories sprout up

GLEE! GLEE!

I’ve practically got it coming out the wazoo. Glee, that is. I know, I know; it’s poor sportsmanship, in bad taste and all that. But, like Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas morning, I just can’t help it!

Alright; calming down now; taking a deep breath and all that. Just what is it that’s got me so obnoxiously happy, you want to know? Okay, I’ll tell you.

Everybody knows that politicians have an amusing tendency to shoot themselves in the foot every now and then. King Ralph seems to have a bead permanently drawn on his big toe but then, Ralph seems to have kevlar boots, too. 🙄 Anyways, the Freeps, along with a bunch of other MSM outlets, is yoleling away about how local HypoGrit Dave Burghardt has nuked himself in the foot, and MP wannabe Glen Pearson was nowhere near minimum safe distance. It seems that ol’ Dave was a blogger a while ago (but it’s all gone POOF now) and was displaying signs of a decidedly unHypoGritical mindset. Some of the more damaging examples from today’s Freeps:

Belinda Stronach’s defection from the Conservatives to the Liberals: “All this demonstrates one more reason why women shouldn’t be allowed to run for office, much less vote. It is a fool who looks (for) logic in the chambers of the female mind.” (May 18, 2005).

Grits: “What it means to be Liberal was long ago replaced with greed, expediency and corruption…. the Liberal Party is dying, suffering from a chronic case of no ideas, no leaders and no ability to do anything about it.” (March 19, 2006).

Kyoto: “The idea behind Kyoto is so utterly stupid it’s no wonder our loony left has embraced it as the environmental saviour. . . Kyoto is nothing but PR — it won’t work, it’s only a chance for international leaders to get their pictures taken together looking like environmentalists.” (March 28, 2005);

Muslim feelings of alienation: “If the Muslim community feels alienated from the rest of Canada, pass the Ny-Quil because I won’t be able to sleep tonight.” (July 20, 2005).

😯 Oh, poop. Women shouldn’t vote? And the Moonbat Brigade likes to hoot about US supposedly being a bunch of mean, nasty, lowbrow, knuckle-dragging, protohuman… ah, you get the idea. 😆 Seeing the Librano$ getting flogged with their own favourite stick like this is enough to give me wood of my own. 😉

To give some credit to the poor bugger, Pearson did pinkslip the blowhard Burghardt immediately after finding out about the blog on Sunday morning. He then promptly proved, once and for all, that he really is a typical so-open-minded-his-brain-fell-out liberal: he went to Dipper rival Megan Walker and, well… See for yourself:

“I did say to her, ‘Megan, it is up to you and your team what you want to do about it, but Dave is a friend of mine,’ and I hoped she would do the right thing. These kinds of things can affect a person and I wanted her to be thinking about that.”

Walker, naturally, promptly ran to the nearest media stooge she could find and tattled:

“This raises some very serious questions about Glen Pearson’s judgment,” said Walker

I agree with the Dipper. Yes, you read that right. This does raise questions (and damned serious ones, at that) about Glen Pearson’s judgement. Anyone that can possibly be so naive as to think, whether through ignorance or willful self-deception, that a fawning footsoldier in the rabid regiments of the Looney Left somehow would refrain from exploiting anything and everything that they can get their hands on (usually in the most crass, lowest-common-denominator fashion) for political gain is clearly too deluded to be trusted with public office of any kind.

Bye, Glen. It was fun while it lasted.