If he couldn't handle being challenged in one constituency, I doubt he has the stones to the lead the entire party.
The NDP right now remind me of this...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
News of the Future
Former NDP MLA Pat Atkinson officially began her bid for the leadership of the provincial NDP today.
The leadership contest will take place in the spring of 2012, after a devastating 2011 election loss in which the Sask Party gained four additional seats and saw the NDP popularity sink to an all time low under leader Dwain Lingenfelter.
UPDATE - Especially for Steven R.
Atkinson will serve out her term until the Nov. 7 provincial election, but a return to politics -- in a party leadership race or a federal election -- wasn't ruled out on Tuesday, although she said she has no immediate plans for her post-political life.
"You're never supposed to say never," Atkinson told reporters after her farewell address. "I'm a politician, sorry."
Welcome JGL listeners!
The leadership contest will take place in the spring of 2012, after a devastating 2011 election loss in which the Sask Party gained four additional seats and saw the NDP popularity sink to an all time low under leader Dwain Lingenfelter.
UPDATE - Especially for Steven R.
Atkinson will serve out her term until the Nov. 7 provincial election, but a return to politics -- in a party leadership race or a federal election -- wasn't ruled out on Tuesday, although she said she has no immediate plans for her post-political life.
"You're never supposed to say never," Atkinson told reporters after her farewell address. "I'm a politician, sorry."
Welcome JGL listeners!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Note to Saskatchewan USW Members
Your union leadership holds you in contempt and doesn't think you are very bright. So they think they can tell you anything and that you'll believe it.
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In 2010, in the province of Saskatchewan, our union and the provincial NDP stood solidly together to defeat the proposed takeover of the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan in November. By our collective lobbying and pushing of both the Saskatchewan government of Brad Wall of the Harper Conservatives, the federal government at least temporarily stopped the takeover.
Wall, who was an integral member of the Conservative government that privatized PCS in the 1990s for a little more than $600-million (the corporation is now worth more than $40-billion), made an eleventh hour decision to oppose the deal. So too did the federal Conservatives who ran a risk of losing many of their MPs had the PCS deal gone through.
Together the Saskatchewan NDP and the members of our union and communities made the Harper and Wall government’s blink. Today the NDP trails the Saskatchewan party by just four percentage points and the Harper Conservatives are losing political ground.
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An eleventh hour decision? The NDP trails the Saskatchewan Party by just four percentage points?
This isn't just spin. These are out and out falsehoods from union leadership to their membership.
There are mountains of evidence that the facts and the timeline supported by this media release are completely false. If you are a citizen of Saskatchewan who witnessed the BHP story play out, you know the truth and it isn't contained in this media release.
The one question I have is how did Mr. Hunt come to his factually incorrect conclusions? Were they made up on his end, or were they spun by unions and the NDP?
I've been telling you that NDP provincial campaign manager Dale Schmeichel has been promoting the fact that the NDP are only 5% behind the Saskatchewan Party, which has been disproven poll after poll. Yet, Mr. Hunt states a similar fact. Coincidence?
This is another shining example of why union members should be very wary of their leadership, and how union leadership will say anything to influence their own members because they don't think they are smart enough to know the difference.
Union members deserve better!
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In 2010, in the province of Saskatchewan, our union and the provincial NDP stood solidly together to defeat the proposed takeover of the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan in November. By our collective lobbying and pushing of both the Saskatchewan government of Brad Wall of the Harper Conservatives, the federal government at least temporarily stopped the takeover.
Wall, who was an integral member of the Conservative government that privatized PCS in the 1990s for a little more than $600-million (the corporation is now worth more than $40-billion), made an eleventh hour decision to oppose the deal. So too did the federal Conservatives who ran a risk of losing many of their MPs had the PCS deal gone through.
Together the Saskatchewan NDP and the members of our union and communities made the Harper and Wall government’s blink. Today the NDP trails the Saskatchewan party by just four percentage points and the Harper Conservatives are losing political ground.
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An eleventh hour decision? The NDP trails the Saskatchewan Party by just four percentage points?
This isn't just spin. These are out and out falsehoods from union leadership to their membership.
There are mountains of evidence that the facts and the timeline supported by this media release are completely false. If you are a citizen of Saskatchewan who witnessed the BHP story play out, you know the truth and it isn't contained in this media release.
The one question I have is how did Mr. Hunt come to his factually incorrect conclusions? Were they made up on his end, or were they spun by unions and the NDP?
I've been telling you that NDP provincial campaign manager Dale Schmeichel has been promoting the fact that the NDP are only 5% behind the Saskatchewan Party, which has been disproven poll after poll. Yet, Mr. Hunt states a similar fact. Coincidence?
This is another shining example of why union members should be very wary of their leadership, and how union leadership will say anything to influence their own members because they don't think they are smart enough to know the difference.
Union members deserve better!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
I'm Starting to Feel Sorry for Lingenfelter
Well, not really...
More than 50 per cent of those surveyed were satisfied or very satisfied with the performance of the provincial government, while only 17 per cent said they were unsatisfied.
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"Saskatchewan's always been known as 'next year' country, but I think there might be a feeling in Saskatchewan that next year has finally arrived. I think the public has really been waiting for that, there's really a feeling of relief. And of course the government's going to get credit for that. How much is always hard to pinpoint but I think it would be wrong not to give them any credit."
I'm wondering how Dale "we're only behind by 5% in 30 ridings" Schmeichel is going to spin this.
More than 50 per cent of those surveyed were satisfied or very satisfied with the performance of the provincial government, while only 17 per cent said they were unsatisfied.
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"Saskatchewan's always been known as 'next year' country, but I think there might be a feeling in Saskatchewan that next year has finally arrived. I think the public has really been waiting for that, there's really a feeling of relief. And of course the government's going to get credit for that. How much is always hard to pinpoint but I think it would be wrong not to give them any credit."
I'm wondering how Dale "we're only behind by 5% in 30 ridings" Schmeichel is going to spin this.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The World According to Kent E. Peterson
Kent E. Peterson is an NDP Vice-President. But he's already become a legend in blogging circles due to his odd behaviour.
He was first introduced to us by ndpwatch as a person who enjoys white wine and potato chips in the local pool hall. He is also behind a tremendously bad copycat site of ndpwatch called saskpartywatch (Gormley seems to be his latest infatuation).
He also made homophobic remarks on his old blog, Humble Opinion (that we have archived in full and are awaiting to release once he wins an NDP nomination to run) about Serge Leclerc.
Now take a look at this latest glamour shot, which is his FB profile picture.
He is pretending to chat on the phone, while enjoying a cocktail and a smoke in what looks like a public place. Yup, that's a way of really connecting to the proletariat.
He was first introduced to us by ndpwatch as a person who enjoys white wine and potato chips in the local pool hall. He is also behind a tremendously bad copycat site of ndpwatch called saskpartywatch (Gormley seems to be his latest infatuation).
He also made homophobic remarks on his old blog, Humble Opinion (that we have archived in full and are awaiting to release once he wins an NDP nomination to run) about Serge Leclerc.
Now take a look at this latest glamour shot, which is his FB profile picture.
He is pretending to chat on the phone, while enjoying a cocktail and a smoke in what looks like a public place. Yup, that's a way of really connecting to the proletariat.
Then he adds this caption "SYNDers hard at work!" on the Saskatchewan Young New Democrats FB page to this picture
If this is what hard work looks like to Kent E. Peterson, we're all screwed.
Also in the background are a lot of "Not So Young Saskatchewan New Democrats" and a young disengaged Travis "his father's party does not appeal to him"Lingenfelter texting on his phone
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Kent E. Peterson and the future of the Saskatchewan NDP.
WTF!?!
Et tu, John F.Conway? Et, tu?
"In fairness to Wall, he has not taken a sudden left turn, far from it. But he has refused to become an ideological puppet of the hard right, and insists on taking his role as premier with considerable seriousness. As an increasingly pragmatic professional career politician, Wall knows he must be seen as a defender of the public interest and a devotee of good government."
Are they trying to drive Lingenfelter out, or just insane? Even I don't know what to think anymore.
Between this letter and the NDP caucus letter writing campaign that basically concedes the next election, is this really happening in our Saskatchewan?
Awesome!
"In fairness to Wall, he has not taken a sudden left turn, far from it. But he has refused to become an ideological puppet of the hard right, and insists on taking his role as premier with considerable seriousness. As an increasingly pragmatic professional career politician, Wall knows he must be seen as a defender of the public interest and a devotee of good government."
Are they trying to drive Lingenfelter out, or just insane? Even I don't know what to think anymore.
Between this letter and the NDP caucus letter writing campaign that basically concedes the next election, is this really happening in our Saskatchewan?
Awesome!