. . . the other way to get headlines when you're not in cabinet is to pretend that, in fact, you are. That's the strategy Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Betty Hinton tried in February.
Hinton made the claim in an interview with Kamloops This Week's Markus Ermish [sic]. But when the NDP's Jean Crowder brought it up in the House, Hinton denied everything and even demanded an apology.
Unfortunately for the veteran interior politician, Ermish had his interview taped.
The incident led columnist Dale Bass to pen a scathing editorial about Hinton's performance.
"Our local MP is rapidly becoming as valuable to the Conservative government as Hedy Fry was to the Liberals during her Ku-Klux-Klan-cross-burnings-in-Prince-George phase," he wrote.
He [sic] went on to say "[S]he goes through local constituency office staff like some losing NFL teams go through coaches," and she is "becoming a public embarrassment to her own party in Parliament."
Ouch.
After being exposed by local papers, the Globe and Mail, Macleans magazine, and The Tyee, our elected federal representative is a joke to the entire country.Cited article by Tom Barrett and Richard Warnica
Published July 12, 2007
thetyee.ca (c) 2003-2007
7 comments:
Let's see, a Parliamentary Sec., "pretends" she is in cabinet, when in fact she is fully briefed on her Minister's files and the files that impact Veteran's affairs and the "political" files which impact her party...as opposed to a Liberal leader who "pretends" he has his own caucus's support, "pretends" he isn't a sacrificial lamb who can't even raise the cash to repay his campaign debts, and "pretends" he can make promises to the electorate and have any remote chance of fulfilling same. This contrasted with an NDP leader who "pretends" to have ideals and "pretends" his party is national and "pretends" his economic policy isn't a rehash od failed socialist economic/social theory.
Oh...and the kicker, the local NDP candidate seems to be "pretending" that the rights of criminals (hookers and junkies and thieves) trump the rights of citizens and property owners and parents who want safe neighborhoods for their families.
I can "appreciate" a good, partisan blog, but if you feel the need to post drivel expect to be countered.
As an aside I read the Tyee and agree with much of what they have to say (fears of NAU/Basi, Virk, etc...but I don't pretend to believe it is an objective publication and I am certain they wouldn't know Betty Hinton from Betty Boop.
Someone is getting nervous. For that is the must vitriolic counter to a link post, I have witnessed in some time. By the way, where's Betty?
Funny how holding a mirror is construed as vitriole... I merely played with the language...yet the original post is fine by your warped standards? This why Canada punted the Liberals and their "do as we say not as we do" philosophy and have never embraced the NDP.
Ta for now dudes.
Where's Crawford?
-Third Place!!!!
Poll of 300 people in the spring means that amongst those 300 Crawford finishes third, in the spring. But Where's Crawford?
Active, engauged and representing the people of KTC, something Betty gets paid to do but doesn't.
So, Where's Betty?
Where's Betty? She was in Ottawa getting things done - as is proven by $6.6m in funding for the airport runway expansion. Not too likely that Crawford will ever deliver something like that. Does that sound like someone who's not representing the riding?
Crawford gets paid to teach, not run for office. Maybe he owes the taxpayers a refund.
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