tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post2155537735130134892..comments2024-03-28T04:04:03.006-07:00Comments on Paying attention: How serious are the Liberals about fighting membership abuses?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-24249740908762081002011-02-11T03:52:55.180-08:002011-02-11T03:52:55.180-08:00Answer to the question posed in the title: They ar...Answer to the question posed in the title: They are not at all serious.<br /><br />Insiders have always had a firm grip on voting in the Liberal Party. Nowadays, they don't need members for anything more than appearances. They don't rely on volunteers during elections, even the mundane activities such as sign making and distribution. Everything is purchased, slick and professional.Norm Farrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06762889793990336381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-44505066216451054012011-02-10T08:01:59.960-08:002011-02-10T08:01:59.960-08:00Today's papers offer an interesting contrast o...Today's papers offer an interesting contrast of opinions.<br /><br />The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer comes out in favour of Elections BC being involved in leadership contests -- http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Opinion+Lali+calls+shenanigans/4256598/story.html -- <i>Political parties are important public institutions. They choose our leaders and the folks who become MLAs and cabinet ministers. With leadership contests in a governing party - Social Credit in 1986, the NDP in 1996 and 2000, the B.C. Liberals today - party members pick a premier with zero input from the public at large.<br /><br />Independent scrutiny from Elections BC would help ensure that those selections are fair, open and free from abuse.</i><br /><br />Across the Salish Sea at the Victoria Times Colonist's Les Leyne takes the opposite tack -- http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/Keep+Elections+party+races/4256477/story.html -- <i>Changing the law to bring Elections B.C. into the picture would require expanding that office and adding millions to its budget. The agency already has enough to do running elections, registering voters, overseeing initiative efforts and regulating recall campaigns.<br /><br />Elections B.C. already regulates leadership campaign donations. Bringing the office farther into party politics would create a mammoth, expensive new field of enterprise.</i><br /><br />As for me... I would be happy if non-BCers were out of the picture. No foreign (outside of BC headquartered) companies, no foreign (outside of BC) money, and no foreign (outside of BC) people - good-bye Rod Love and Kyle Washington<i>!</i> This is <b>BC</b>'s election, not for foreign interlopers to be coming in and influencing <b>our</b> election.<br /><br />Shame on any party, or any person who accepts foreign help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-56515107360293173172011-02-09T09:56:17.520-08:002011-02-09T09:56:17.520-08:00Abuse or Fraud ?
Whether to punish Kash Heed'...<b>Abuse or Fraud ?</b><br /><br />Whether to punish Kash Heed's exonerator for conflict was determined by, among others, a Liberal donor and former Liberal cabinet minister.<br /><br />by <i>Andrew MacLeod</i>, TheTyee.caAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-45126388996343546642011-02-08T19:47:28.190-08:002011-02-08T19:47:28.190-08:00Gosh Paul, since you and your other half are both ...Gosh Paul, since you and your other half are both in the media, you better check to make sure your names, and for that matter ,the folks who read your stuff, are not all new Liberals if we want to be or not. I wouldn't put anything past those shady characters.DPLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-6159830140744194172011-02-08T19:16:59.282-08:002011-02-08T19:16:59.282-08:00Who are the new BC Liberals? Setting aside Campbel...Who are the new BC Liberals? Setting aside Campbell, am I really expected to believe that 50,000+ of my fellow citizens are completely oblivious to the politics of this province for the last ten years? 50,000 British Columbians who believe that Clark, de Jong, Falcon, and Abbott represent a substantive break from Campbell?<br /><br />Who put forward the $250 bucks to sign up the Blazers. Whose paying for the mass sign ups in the Indo-Canadian community? And why would I, an average British Columbian who follows politics, waste my ten dollars on party system that's so obviously open to outright fraud? A pox on all your houses.pikernoreply@blogger.com