
Terminal City will host the upcoming federal Liberal leadership convention if Jamie Elmhirst has his way. In an interview with Public Eye, the British Columbia party president confirmed he'll be submitting such a request to the party's executive. Meanwhile, our operatives report there's some thinking in Grit Lotusland that said conference should be scheduled no sooner but no later than this fall. The reason: that's enough time to give candidates a chance to organize and debate the issues but not enough time to let the leadership race fester. Meanwhile, famed Grit gadfly Jonathan Ross is reporting whispers that the executive will set that date sometime this week. Also treading on the rumourmill: thoughts that David Emerson should be encouraged to run for the Liberal leadership - not necessarily because he'd win the race but instead because he'd be a rallying point for British Columbia Grits, thereby keeping the provincial voting block intact.
Thank you for linking to Jonathan Ross's website. It's an excellent reminder of what a total idiot he is. If Mr. Ross actually read anything he would know that the $3 billion dollar deficit the Finance Department noted in November means that the anticipated suplus at the end of the year is now $7 billion instead of $10 billion. Good lord! Sounds like a financial crisis to me! How will the incoming Conservative government possibly cope with that?
Its also hard to take someone seriously who refers to himself in the third person - and under his company's name no less. Jonathan, why don't you just call yourself Jonathan? Everyone knows that there is no one else at "TDH Strategies" other than you.
Many are going to take great joy in watching Mr. Ross set the world on fire now that there is a leadership contest, being the genius that he is. Or perhaps he will simply revert to firing poisonous accusations at the rest of the world in a pathetic attempt to cover up the fact that he couldn't organize a blowjob in a whorehouse.
Nice to know that Billy aka Derek Raymaker continues to be angry at the world because of his own inadequacies.
Emerson would be a great candidate.
Why can't we keep him here, though, and have him take over from Gordon Campbell?
He is smart (has a PhD), business credentials, government credentials, and, to top it all off, he has much more of a heart than Gordon Campbell.
Not only that, Emerson can work with people like Ujjal Dosanjh (who he worked closely in cabinet with) AND Bill VanderZalm (he was Deputy Minister to the Premier). He also gets along well with former NDPers like Dave Haggard and current NDPers like Dan Miller.
He could govern very well, and bridge the divide between left and right.
If Emerson's going to be a candidate, the Liberals should out-source their convention to Germany.
I'm not Billy. But Jonathan, you're a colossal twat. Sorry to interrupt your sausage party. You may return to speculating about the condition of Svend Robinson's hemorrhoids or whatever it is you west coast people do when you're not smoking dope or rollerblading. As you were.
PS: Billy, stop stealing my best lines.
What do you expect from a guy that looks like this:
www.tdhstrategies.com/images/Raymaker.jpg
He's perenially angry because of always being overshadowed, either by his famous bandmate (Warren Kinsella) or his parents long and respected tenure in the Liberal party.
Raymaker strives for significance, but more often than not doesn't rate much higher than a powerful sneeze.
Hmmm. There's been some good lines in this thread, such as blowjob in a whorehouse. Also, a fair bit of invective, I must say.
I found the TDH story on Emerson and Drazenovic a couple of weeks ago to be quite interesting. Emerson does have talent, but like all Liberals he also "knows the game", a quality that is NOT endearing or amusing, unless of course it's someone like Gary Mason making the judgement calls. Take for example Hedy Fry's 19th century patronage machine in Vancouver Centre, ... not an edifying spectacle when viewed from the perspective of good standards of public administration.
So I would be real disappointed to discover that TDH is kind of like Mike Geoghegan and Associates, a one man band driven as much by bitterness and lack of alternatives as any expectation of profit.
Say it ain't so, TDH!
so I went and looked at the TDH web site. Johnathan is written about a lot. Nobody else. If he hires an answering service for his phone, he might then call it TDH and associates.
Maybe he does have other staff but they sure are a silent bunch. Maybe he could enlighten us as to just how many experts he has on his payroll.
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