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BC General Election May 14, 2013 - Advance Voting Wed May 8 to Sat May 11 - See Post #433

Wetcoaster

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Micheal Smyth pretty much summed up that 30 minute infomercial put out by the Liberals before it was even aired.

Dave Babych has better shot at comeback than Christy Clark

"You'll see Christy direct, unfiltered and like you've never seen her before," Babych promises, as a short video clip rolls of a blue-jeaned Clark laughing and feeding a cow.

After getting over the somewhat creepy feeling of just how strange and surreal this is all becoming (Dave Babych? Cows? Really?) a few thoughts sprang to mind.

For one thing, it's clear the Liberals are desperate to make Clark into some kind of warm and likable person who relates to average British Columbians: a down-to-earth hockey mom who's pals with everyone from CEOs to dairy farmers.

The Liberals have a lot of ground to make up on that score.

"It's a big choice about what comes next for B.C.," Babych tells viewers. "If you ask me, Christy's gettin 'er done."

I suspect he wrote that last line himself. But his use of the word "unfiltered" to describe this Sunday's TV show betrayed the hand of a political scriptwriter.

When political strategists say "unfiltered" they mean bypassing the news media, which the Liberals are now convinced have got it in for them.

So Christy's "unfiltered" mind-meld with voters starts Sunday. I think Babych has a better shot at a comeback. :bigblush:

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I'm not seeing anything on the internet about it. But I'll take your word for it and retract what I said.

Here is my correction

A large percentage greater than 70% of British columbians couldn't have cared less about what the leader of the Scandal plagued liberal leader had to say on Sunday. Welcome to two days later when that same Large percentage still doesn't care.

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It's funny I could have watched it over the last hour. I just don't care to hear what she has to say. So in this case I can't get passed my prejudice against her. I prefer to hate on her rather than to find out what she has to say.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/04/17/bc-linda-reid-porn-site.html

The website of Linda Reid, British Columbia's deputy speaker and the B.C. Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly for Richmond East, includes the web address of a teen porn site.

Reid's personal campaign website and Facebook page both list her site with a lindareid.com address, though her site is actually a lindareid.ca address. The discrepancy is likely a typo.

The .com website, actually called Teen Flesh, is plastered with images of what appear to be teenage girls engaged in hardcore sex acts. Reid has no affiliation with lindareid.com

On Wednesday, the MLA said she was frustrated and seemed to believe that she was the victim of a hack.

"We will certainly get to the bottom of it," she told CBC News. "There's no way in the world we'd want to give anyone any notoriety for hacking into websites."

The .com website was registered through GoDaddy.com using Domains By Proxy — a service that specializes in hiding website's registered owners.

In addition, Elections B.C. says Reid's .ca website doesn’t contain any financing authorization, which is in violations of the Election Act, and the agency plans to contact Reid’s campaign office.

But Reid said she was unaware of any problems and on Wednesday afternoon, had yet to hear from Elections B.C.

Reid, the B.C. Liberals' longest serving MLA, was first elected to the legislature in 1991.

The news comes just one day after B.C.’s provincial election campaign officially started — but it’s not the first scandal to hit the campaign.

On Tuesday, as the writ was dropped in the legislature, Kelowna-Mission NDP candidate Dayleen van Ryswyk was forced to resign after controversial comments aimed at First Nations and the French-Canadian Community were made public.

B.C.’s next provincial election is on May 14.

On the flip side, she just got the votes of the 18-35 male demographic in Richmond-East.

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I think the people of British Columbia deserve better options for political office. I've said it before but none of the major options are appealing and I can't stomach the thought of myself voting for either Christy Clark or Adrian Dix given both their track records and general levels of incompetence.

That being said the NDP has gone on record that they would nix both corporate and union donations to political parties. I wasn't planning on voting NDP but this has given me something to consider. Now don't get me wrong I see write through this. It's a vote winner and a tactic that will hurt the Liberals in the long run much moreso than it will hurt the NDP, given the disparity in corporate donations to the Liberals in contrast with the union donations to the NDP.

Does anyone have any insightful thoughts on this? Is this a good thing in the NDP's favor or am I missing something? Could they possible go back and not carry through with this campaign promise?

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