The PC race - so to speak - is remarkably active.
A party at 20% in the polls usually finds it tough to grab serious interest from the outside - but this time it's different. There's significant cash and wealth on the line.
The Liberals have elected a competent, successful, professional - who just happens not to be one of the backroom elite. The money - old and new - and the political establishment in Newfoundland and Labrador were not successful in electing their candidate for Liberal leader. As I've said before - Dwight Ball is a people's leader and will be a people's Premier after the next election.
So - the boy's club - thinking they could count on taking over the Liberal Party in the wake of a disastrous performance by the current government - were left surprised. Up until a few months ago - if all else failed they might have gone the Jack Harris/NDP route.
There is no doubt the boys will be very careful this time around. They need somebody who can make corporate resource giveaways look like the people just won the lottery. Considering most of the current PC MHA's don't have that "X"factor - most not even considered Cabinet material - the new leader has to be a savior.
If the boys had managed to own the Liberal Party the PC's would be doing the usual government on the way out thing - where a few sitting members would run as caretaker while they sit out a new Liberal rule.
So what's likely then?
Inside we can see possibly:
Team King
Team Dalley
Team Davis
Commoners
Outside it may be the:
Team Barry McDonald Tobin
Team Powers Penney Sullivans
Establishment
I suspect Danny may be either - as either can meet his needs - as a citizen.
Marshall - who has always been there - just in case - oops correcter is now the Interim Premier leaving him to stay neutral - so to speak - that is continue to help usher for the feature film. Marshall - interim of everything (thereby confirming the lack of depth in the back bench) gets to have the title - be the boss - and protect the boat until a new skipper can be found.
Powers - who so coincidentally was introduced as a guest VOCM talkshow host over the past year - is now known more broadly by the electorate. He's well known in the lobbyist and corporate masters arena.
Barry - is a provincial character - fish merchant - I believe is a Gates type individual - wherein if we give him all the money - all the fish - all resources - he'd be happy to give some back to what he considers worthwhile causes and people. Competition not needed.
Both have enemies and both represent the establishment.
Question is which one can they sell to the people? Maybe neither - so they will be looking further afield for a back-up just in case.
At this time I predict - the new leader will come from the outside - in order that the resource giveaways keep a coming.
This is going to be a real test for the people of the province. Do they support the establishment merchant or the leader of the people?
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I would choose nobody from the slate of candidates you have offered up for the PCs Sue. Unless, of course, they come clean and recant what has gone on in government that has hurt the electorate of Newfoundland and Labrador.
I believe if I chose any one of them the status-quo would remain. The same people who now have control would still be benefiting from our natural resources. Those who have control of our natural resources are making the middle class go extinct and that is a crime to humanity. Why would I want to chose somebody from that category who believes in that credo?
Since I am afraid the status quo for the ONE Per cent who have gotten control of everything down through the ages will get to keep and grow their economies based on the peoples' natural resource, I want somebody to lead this province who hasn't had his or her hands into the mess that we are already experiencing at this frightening time in our history.
How did Corruption gain such a foothold in our country and our province before being squashed and without the people revolting?
Something has to be done, does the Auditor General have any say into how our natural resources are appointed and by whom and for whom?
Some entity, surely Creation must have been given some control in our Constitution! Let us use the laws of the Constitution to Stop this havoc that is being perpetrated on the electorate of our country and our province.
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