Frankly, I was disappointed in Joyce Murray’s speech at the LPoC showcase, and I have severe doubts as to whether her plan for cooperation (A runoff??? A RUNOFF???) with the NDP and Greens has any hope of success. But the concept of cooperation is an important one, even if the
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Murray, Trudeau, And Showcase Wrap-Up
My computer’s battery died before I could finish this yesterday. But onward! Joyce Murray gave a strong, substantive speech. You can watch it here. And it went over fairly well, generally speaking, though the showcase crowd gave fairly muted responses to all of the speakers other than Justin. However, when
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So, a quick technical note: the convention centre had wifi but no power for bloggers; Hoops (the pub I went to) had power but no wifi network. This was scratched out in word and popped into blogger, as I wanted my battery power for the Murray/Trudeau speeches. But then wifi
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I have been granted the honor of blogging the LPoC showcase downtown today. I take these things seriously, so I will probably try to write a quick post about each of the candidates pitch speeches, though this ambition may get scaled back to Joyce and Justin’s. Maybe MHF’s if I’m
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: In Which Zach Paiken Makes Some Sense
A little bit. Obviously calling for Liberals to rally around a leader that hasn’t been elected yet is putting cart before horse. But this paragraph is OK: Liberals know full well what they believe in. Our party demonstrated a solid record of social progress and fiscal responsibility during its last
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: LPoC Registration Cracks 100,000
From an email I received yesterday evening from Matt Certosimo, the National Membership Secretary: Presumably, the deadline extension will give the party time to contact anyone who is serious about following-up on their original contact, although I expect the final tally will be embarrassingly low. That said, if Joyce Murray hangs tough for
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Garneau Out?
!!! RT @jmbryden: Garmeau withdrawing from #lpldr race, The Canadian Press has learned— Dale Smith-Journo (@journo_dale) March 13, 2013 If so, where do his people go? Anywhere but Justin?
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Martha Hall Findlay Flip Flops On Northern Gateway
I haven’t heard this mentioned in any of the coverage of yesterday’s LPoC leadership debate, but on February 26th MHF was for Northern Gateway Pipeline; as of yesterday’s debate, she’s sudddenly agin it. That’s what you call a policy reversal…a waffle…a dither…a flip flop, even. Worth noting too that among the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: One Of These People Is NOT Running For LPoC Leadership
But should I be? Everyone else is, and I’m starting to feel a little weird that I’m not.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Its Only A Forum Poll
…but I like it: Forty-one per cent of poll respondents said they’d vote Liberal in this scenario, granting the party 164 of the 308 seats in the house. The Tories would get 30% of the vote and 93 seats, and the NDP would get 20% of the vote and 45
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Media Is Owed Nothing
Its worth remembering that the last “exciting” race the LPoC ran provided fodder for attack ads against both the leader who emerged that year and in ’08. Star columnist Tim Harper naturally wants more. Cooler heads should not tell him no. And of course Harper undermines his own point pretty
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Which LPoC Leadership Campaign Has This Guy Collecting Signatures?
Other Liberal Party members weren’t so diplomatic. Fabrice Rivault, a volunteer handling media requests for Outremont Liberal candidate Martin Cauchon, received a copy of the letter from a member of the Greek community and immediately sent an email back to the woman dubbing the Congress’s board of directors “fascists.” “Why
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Yo Federal Liberal Leadership Candidates (Esp. Justin Trudeau): Bullshit Cometh Before The Fall
If you take the numbers from the last NDP leadership convention as a guide–and there is no reason not to–about 10% of the people you recruit on-line will be arsed enough about the whole enterprise to actually vote. The rest will forget they signed up. So this story is just puff.
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