Stay classy you dippers.
Were B.C.’s election campaign to end today instead of May 14, the province’s Conservative party would win quite easily. In one unfortunate category: most discarded candidates. It’s quite an achievement, since the B.C. Conservatives have nominated the fewest people of the four major parties in the race.
Two weeks into the campaign, and B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins has already sacked four hopefuls. The latest to go is one Ron Herbert, who was nominated only a week ago in Vancouver West-End. He was turfed on Sunday, after reports surfaced about a Tweet he’d made concerning Christy Clark. “Gag me with a spoon b—-,” he had typed earlier in April. “You tripled the debt. HELLO.”
Mr. Cummins also removed on Sunday someone described as his party’s “senior volunteer responsible for screening candidates.”
Voters deserve to know what their candidates say and think. If a person seeking public office decides to air unwholesome views or use expletives via some online vehicle, he should expect them to come back to haunt. It should be pretty obvious by now: If you tweet, tweet like an adult or prepare for the worst.
Give some credit to the B.C. Liberals. None of their 85 candidates have fallen on their swords as yet. Over at Liberal HQ, campaign workers search for information that might pose problems for opposing candidates. It’s standard campaign stuff, but the Liberals seem to do it best.
This week’s poster child for dubious conduct is Jane Shin, B.C. NDP candidate in Burnaby-Lougheed. Among her infractions, Ms. Shin — who is of Korean descent — once referred to Chinese-Canadians as “chinkasaureses.”
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Were B.C.’s election campaign to end today instead of May 14, the province’s Conservative party would win quite easily. In one unfortunate category: most discarded candidates. It’s quite an achievement, since the B.C. Conservatives have nominated the fewest people of the four major parties in the race.
Two weeks into the campaign, and B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins has already sacked four hopefuls. The latest to go is one Ron Herbert, who was nominated only a week ago in Vancouver West-End. He was turfed on Sunday, after reports surfaced about a Tweet he’d made concerning Christy Clark. “Gag me with a spoon b—-,” he had typed earlier in April. “You tripled the debt. HELLO.”
Mr. Cummins also removed on Sunday someone described as his party’s “senior volunteer responsible for screening candidates.”
Voters deserve to know what their candidates say and think. If a person seeking public office decides to air unwholesome views or use expletives via some online vehicle, he should expect them to come back to haunt. It should be pretty obvious by now: If you tweet, tweet like an adult or prepare for the worst.
Give some credit to the B.C. Liberals. None of their 85 candidates have fallen on their swords as yet. Over at Liberal HQ, campaign workers search for information that might pose problems for opposing candidates. It’s standard campaign stuff, but the Liberals seem to do it best.
This week’s poster child for dubious conduct is Jane Shin, B.C. NDP candidate in Burnaby-Lougheed. Among her infractions, Ms. Shin — who is of Korean descent — once referred to Chinese-Canadians as “chinkasaureses.”
more
Jane Shin, NDP candidate, latest poster child for dubious online conduct | Full Comment | National Post
