November 30, 2010 - 1:22 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
UPDATE: Barb Justason tears a strip off of Mike Klassen from City Caucus for his misleading headline about her poll’s findings.
I would like to offer some general reactions to the just released Justason Market Intelligence poll.
First of all, you have got to be kidding me with this:
If Frances Bula is correct and the NPA is indeed “looking to prove, desperately these days,” that “potential NPA candidates,…have a fighting chance to beat Vision Vancouver,” then I think that by all means they should continue to use these results, and this question in particular, as their enticement.
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November 27, 2010 - 11:25 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
The campaign has been successful - Clark is set to announce the start of her leadership bid the week after next.
CivicScene has just received word that Christy Clark will announce her candidacy for the BC Liberal leadership the week after next.
Sources say that she will spend next week submitting her letter of resignation to CKNW, working out the terms of her departure, and filing the necessary paperwork with the party.
CivicScene has also learned that Mike McDonald, the former B.C. Liberal caucus communications director in Victoria, is rumoured to have accepted the job as Clark’s campaign manager.
McDonald will be known to some political observers from the allegations of the defense team in the Basi-Virk trial, which claimed that he was supervising political dirty tricks directly out of a government office, including stacking phone calls to talk radio shows on CKNW. These allegations, made by Kevin McCullough, the former lawyer for Bob Virk, were of course never proven in court.
I will post more details on the Clark campaign structure as (and if) they become available.
November 23, 2010 - 12:34 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
The next Premier of British Columbia?
Why? Because Clark is going to make an announcement on her future in the next few days, and there are no indications that civic politics, much less running for the NPA, is on her radar.
Either Christy will continue to sit on the political sidelines and enjoy her newly signed contract with CKNW, or she will announce that she is throwing her hat in the ring for the BC Liberal leadership.
Christy has a lot of tongues wagging within BC Liberal and other circles for a number of reasons 1) She is quite popular and has plenty of name recognition within the general public 2) She is untouched by the HST or Gordon Campbell’s recent troubles 3) She still has a strong foothold within the party, making her ability to organize much easier than someone like Dianne Watts and 4) She is a progressive who comes from a strong federal Liberal background, a pedigree that might just turn the public perception of what the BC Liberals have turned into.
I think that Clark could be a game changer in consideration of who is lining up as potential candidates in that party – she could be a consensus candidate that all camps could agree upon at the end of the day.
Which brings me to the delusional NPA.
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