For those of you out there who were shocked to see Liberal Gerard Kennedy lose his seat to the NDP on May 2nd, your confusion was justified. The seat was in fact stolen from him by dirty tricks, shenanigans, and late night phone calls from the United States. This is why Gerard lost by 8,000 votes, at least that's what he was saying on the Soloman Show today. By the way Gerard, when you talk about these "tricks" costing Liberals in "close" ridings such as yours, you lost 33% to 47%...it really wasn't that close. It is doubtful that a few prank phone calls made any difference in that riding.
What wasn't abundantly clear was which party Gerard was accusing of committing these "dirty tricks". In Parkdale the Tories never had a chance of winning and finished a distant 3rd with only 15% of the vote. If there was a conspiracy to defeat Kennedy illegally, the NDP were the beneficiaries. Peggy Nash is no more desirable in opposition to the Tories than Gerry, so I don't see the motivation for Conservatives to break election law to have him defeated. The defeat of Gerard Kennedy is little more than a feel good story for right wingers.
It is an arrogant attitude like Kennedy's that patently demonstrates why the Liberals don't deserve power, why they lost it, and why they've been crumbling more and more with each subsequent election since. Keep whing ya Lib-tard, looks good on you, you big suck.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed, that Kennedy attitude sure sounds like "We're entitled to our entitlements"!!
ReplyDeleteThis kind of comments really don't help the Liberals. The reason they keep losing seats each election is the arrogant attitude they are entitled to power. They may have good ideas, but when you have that type of attitude you pay as voters like to remind politicians they, not the politicians are the bosses. The Liberals have a daunting task ahead, but rather than making excuses for their poor showing, but to look ahead and figure out who to return to official opposition next time around and then government in 2019 and do that by giving people a reason to vote Liberal because they have something positive to offer. If they play their cards right they can come back, but if not they will go the way of the PCs and British Liberals.
ReplyDeleteHas he any proof that calls were made, other than hearsay. Did anyone with call display take a picture, did anyone record said call. Is he saying 8000 of his constituents were called and told not to vote for him. Did anyone google said phone number. Remember there was an organization out of the USA that had petitions to defeat PMSH, and to keep SunTv off the air. I doubt very much is the conservatives were behind these so called calls. Telling people their voting place was changed sound more like some prank from one of those vote mobs.
ReplyDeleteSour grapes.
ReplyDeleteSoloman is true to form by giving it a voice.
After the scandal a day parliament he's mopping up before he finds a new narrative.
I don't like either Kennedy or Nash... but definitely Nash is the worst of the two.
ReplyDeleteWow, does he not know what dirty things LIBERALS and LIBERAL supporters do to Conservative candidates? I helped out with one of the Vancouver candidates, and the tricks and schemes from our opponents was beyond disgusting.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite amazed at these posts as none seem to be aware of what went on in P-HP and yet there are so many accusations being flung about. Nash based her whole campaign on Kennedy's supposed absence of the House when in fact he went to the biodiversity talks in Japan (over 35 meetings) and went with John Baird to Mexico on the Environment (he was environment critic). He had a letter from the party whip and from Baird verifying what he was doing but she kept slinging the mud. She was depending on people's ignorance of parliamentary process and smearing his name. People in this riding were hi jacked from knowing anything except this lie which is a dirty trick. Of anything you can say about Kennedy he's definitely not lazy. The Conservatives didn't have a chance to say anything during the campaign because he couldn't be heard over this dirty campaign. I'm not a Liberal but I hate to see people's reputations destroyed by things that aren't true. It was really sad to see what went on this time in this riding. There were no real discussions at all.
ReplyDeleteKennedy is the real deal! The best of the best
ReplyDeleteKennedy will rise again!!
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