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April 05, 2006
That's no ordinary rabbit! Look at the bones!

Earlier, we reported Mike Witherly - who headed Prime Minister Paul Martin's British Columbia desk - would be contracting out his services under the name Rushbrooke Communications. And now we see that Roy Bornmann, former communications director to Minister of State for Multiculturalism Raymond Chan, is also going freelance as the president of Lapin Communications. In related news, we're told Mr. Bornmann is one of federal Liberal leadership candidate Ken Dryden's principal campaigners in British Columbia.

Posted by Sean Holman at 02:01 PM
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Excuse me for a moment.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

Especially like the inkspot logo...what do you see?

Posted by BornmanMeansBusiness on April 5, 2006 02:15 PM

I am impressed that a communications professional managed to use the word "extensive" twice in the first two sentences of his own bio.

Ken Dryden sure is lucky to have an organizer who "has completed the Canadian Forces Parachutist course" it will be helpful when he has to bail out of the race due to his highly skilled campaign team.

Posted by Polkaroo on April 5, 2006 02:25 PM

Interesting. The things they can do are write letters to editor, briefing notes, brochures,
advice for dealing with government and agencies.

So why would anyone be stupid enough to pay Lapin big money instead of learning to do that yourself?

Writing letters to the editor and brochures are not hard to do. Any volunteer who has spent a year in politics and knows his/her way around the political system can do that stuff.

It will be laughable if any Conservative MP or politico paid any attention to what Bornann has
to say.

Posted by Grit Guy on April 5, 2006 03:00 PM

Roy is a genuinely likeable guy. I wish him the best of luck. He's picked a tough business at a tough time.

Posted by True Grit Guy on April 5, 2006 03:31 PM

a tough time indeed - right before easter

Posted by Veritably True Grit Guy on April 5, 2006 04:54 PM

Roy is a very capable individual and it's good to see his career taking off.
Nothing says Easter like Lapin.

Posted by Got Roy? on April 5, 2006 05:10 PM

"Roy is a very capable individual and it's good to see his career taking off.
Nothing says Easter like Lapin."

Nothing says miscalculation like a federal Liberal once was trying to do business in a Conservative government environment.

Give his business a year. If it still exists,
it will be amazing.

Posted by Grit Guy on April 5, 2006 07:03 PM

Hey Grit Guy: Then why are you pretending to be a grit? Hmmmmm.

Posted by No Grit Guy on April 5, 2006 09:35 PM

er, ... um, ... ah, ... I guess it's safe to assume the Roy Bornman is Eric Bornman's brother?

Posted by Budd Campbell on April 5, 2006 11:17 PM

bornmaNN or bornmaN?? why the different spelling used by these guys??

Posted by zeus on April 6, 2006 12:11 AM

Hey No Grit Guy:

Who says I'm not a federal Liberal. Are all federal Liberals around here Bornman supporters?

Far from it.

Besides these so-called communications consultants are three for a dollar.

Anyone who has been involved in political parties can write good letters to the editor
write brochures and briefing notes.

Not hard to do.

Posted by Grit Guy on April 6, 2006 07:30 AM

Roy Bornman, Billy Cunningham, Mike Witherly, and Mark Marissen should pool their braintrust to come up with a regimen to reduce their expanding waistlines. Then they could market their weight loss program and actually make some money.

Posted by Kirsti Alley on April 6, 2006 08:24 AM

Billy Cunningham is certainly carrying a spare
tire in the trunk. Not quite a cardiac case waiting to happen but getting there.

Maybe they can market grits (corn meal porridge
popular in the Southern U.S.) as a breakfast food.

Have a picture of a smiling Bill Cunningham
tucking into a bowl on the box. Put some Canadian into it and have one version being
Maple Syrup flavoured.

Maybe a cheesy slogan "Eat My Grits". Maybe
get Polly Holliday (who played Flo Castleberry
on the old TV show "Alice" who kept saying
in a southern accent "Kiss my Grits!".

Certainly something better than comming up with
a communications firm run by federal Liberal oncewases who are cardiac cases waiting to happen.

Posted by Grit Guy on April 6, 2006 09:13 AM

How come the women in the Liberal party manage to stay so slim while the men are such lard-asses? Maybe Mia, Megan, Marlene and Justina should band together and put the boys on a vigourous aerobics exercise program? And what about Christy Clark? When she was Education Minister she wanted to force BC kids to take PhyEd to get into better shape. Shouldn't she at least practice what she preaches and force Mark to do 50 sit-ups every day? We have to keep the Liberal party from sagging, in the literal sense! True gender parity means the men should have to watch their weight too.

Posted by concerned lpcbc women's comittee member on April 6, 2006 10:42 AM

"How come the women in the Liberal party manage to stay so slim while the men are such lard-asses? Maybe Mia, Megan, Marlene and Justina should band together and put the boys on a vigourous aerobics exercise program? And what about Christy Clark?"

Christy Clark was fat.

Hedy Fry is fat. In fact one hopes she doens't
wear that white blouse and leather black pants
outfit.

Us Liberal members can take only so much punishment.

Posted by Grit Guy on April 6, 2006 02:24 PM

Compared to Roy Bornman, Kevin Chalmers and Mark Marissen, Christy Clark and Hedy Fry have always been very slender!

Posted by concerned lpcbc woman's comittee member on April 6, 2006 03:54 PM




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