Democracy is being subverted!…oh, never mind
August 29, 2007 · By Aaron Unruh
IT KEEPS GOING AND GOING AND GOING … From an earlier post, commenter Phyl writes:
CC, I had no idea this was a trend. Now I wish I had kept the letter I got two weeks ago from the Cons.
I’m in Toronto Centre, and the letter said that since Bill Graham had retired, our liaison would now be a Con MP. I don’t remember the name (her name?), but I believe it was the Con party Whip.
I remember being extremely irritated, thinking, “Even if I don’t have a sitting MP at the moment, do you think for a second I’ll be going to a CON for help if I need it??” I’d be getting in touch with Stephane Dion or, more likely since I’m in Toronto, Jack Layton.
Anyone else from Toronto Centre have something to add to this?
Or, more likely, the letter was just the same one that everyone gets when they live in a vacated riding: That the House of Commons will maintain the Ottawa and constituency offices in order to service constituents until a by-election is held and that the party whip will oversee both offices. Oh yeah, and it turns out that the Liberal whip, not the Conservative whip, will be overseeing those offices.
I guess that when “research” means “quote comments on my blog without fact-checking,” dumb mistakes like these are bound to happen, eh?
Screwupandretractitude Update: CC has retracted his dumb, unfounded accusation. That is usually what people do with dumb, unfounded accusations after they’ve been caught out, isn’t it? Really. Perhaps if someone would learn to do a little research, he wouldn’t have to print out retractions.
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I see CC and his coterie are still vying for the title of most mentally challenged bloggers. I wish CC’s group home would monitor his computer use a bit more closely - he’s giving retards a bad name.
It’s kind of funny. He should probably just go back to posting pictures of naked women and calling any woman he disagrees with a c*nt. Long live tolerant progressivism!
And yet, not a word about Dick (that’s an apt name) Harris attempt at a little end-around with the ‘Nekkid Mayor’ during summer recess, eh?
‘Dick’ doing a little something ‘on his own’, eh? Since when does any Conservative MP, especially one who is a provincial caucus chairman and very close to Jay Hill, do any ‘free-lancing? (hello, Garth Turner).
you guys kill me. Really. But keep it up.
Hahahahahaha
More like Dick caught red-handed, and ooopsie, who’s actually dancing madly backwards?
Who does your writing? You need better material.
And this passes as witty and insightful commentary. Sigh. Now that he has linked here, I’m sure that even more mental midgets will be waddling over.
Whoooeee! well now that there’s a vacancy over at the stageleft, I fully expect dem fellers (stag and balbull) over der (where all the big thinkers congregate) will be duly linking up with cyntie and his echo chamber of high school debaters, tots and flamers, yessireee and Whoooeee!
Well Aaron.. whether you think Frank had insightful commentary or not, the fact of the matter is Dick Harris decided to expose to everyone what the Conservatives think of ridings that don’t elect Conservatives in them - to the point of trying to bypass the local MP with an unelected candidate to be the “liaison to the government” - also called trying to subvert the democratic process.
Brilliant. The Tories claimed the Liberals were arrogant after 13 years of rule. Well, they themselves have reached that arrogance level in only a year and a half of power. Quite an achievement.