By Alison@Creekside
The popularity of Lotusland’s estimable premier is currently running at 12%.
There are a lot of very good reasons for this but let’s just go with what 83% of the people polled told Angus Reid: they don’t trust the bastard.
Here’s another reason, not that you’d know anything about it from reading our local press.
When Gordon Campbell was planning to mail out a plushy $780,000 pamphlet hawking the benefits of his new Harper Scam Tax to the same B.C. residents who were successfully gathering sufficient signatures to have that sucker repealed, Elections B.C. Deputy CEO Linda Johnson told him he couldn’t do that. No advertising during the repeal drive, she wrote in her decision, because Elections B.C. is an independent office which covers referenda as well as elections.
Finangling Minister Colin “HST wasn’t on my radar” Hansen was some pissed about that.
Meanwhile the chief electoral officer ended his term in June and Gordo appointed a temporary replacement, Craig James, formerly the clerk of committees, who immediately enraged everyone by not sending the HST repeal petition to committee until business groups could do a court challenge to it. Nice.
Now James has fired that same Linda Johnson, 19 years the deputy chief electoral officer.
Ah, but it’s not a firing, said some flack, they’re just restructuring Elections B.C. without a deputy now.
Sure they are. Because what better time to fire the #2 person who has been deputy officer for 19 years than just three months after the #1 guy has left and just as a major confrontation on the HST is in the offing? And what the hell is a temporary Campbell-appointed CEO doing “restructuring” Elections B.C. anyway?
It would be good to hear something from Acting Chief Electoral Officer Craig James about this but unfortunately he is apparently away doing volunteer work somewhere for the moment.
Well, there’ll be volunteer work aplenty after the recalls start.
Campbell and Hansen are, famous for their vendetta’s and dirty tactics. The gruesome twosome are full of, hate, spite, malice, lies, corruption, broken promises, deceit, pettiness, threats, every rotten thing in the book, suits them to a tee. Of course, Linda Johnson was fired. Campbell and Hansen have to put a lap dog, for a deputy in BC Elections. Campbell gets rid of everyone, who is honest. He just can’t stand up under, the scrutiny of good honest people. Anyone who will not lie and cover up for Campbell, loses their jobs. 90% of the citizens all know, anyone opposing Campbell, gets a vendetta. However, Campbell and Hansen lied, deceived and cheated to win. To expect anything honest about Campbell and Hansen would be, an exercise in futility. Campbell’s, most often used quote is, shred, shred shred.
Maybe it’s because they really care, and want a system that cares, like that in the United States. There people who are politically affiliated, like secretaries of state for each of the states, run the show. Who could care more than someone who has a horse in the race? Linda Johnson didn’t care about the BC Liberals. She callously opposed their their vision of this great state… er, rather, province. But you can bet she will be replaced by someone who cares and who will do their level best to make the vision of our governor…, er, rather, premier, a reality.