A video featuring Danny Williams supporting Loyola Hearn in the 1989 provincial Progressive Conservative Party leadership contest is picking up more attention with each passing day.
The video is posted on youtube.com.
When Bond Papers posted the link on Friday, the total viewers was 91. That number hit 241 by mid-day Monday. The video was featured on CBC's Here and Now supperhour news show on Monday evening and as of 10: 45 Pm Monday night the hit counter had reached 369.
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It was really fun to watch the bit about being "hauled aside" . . . and reactions to undue influence from others in the party etc . . . rich stuff. . .
I'd love to see larger clips of entire provincial PC and Liberal and NDP conventions posted online somewhere.
Thanks for posting this.
Can you, or any of your readers, either post the ballot-by-ballot results of that convention, or point me to a website that would have them? As I recall, it was a fairly interesting convention and I'd really like to take a look at the results.
Thanks!
Wow, Jason, I don't know that the ballot-by-ballot was ever published anywhere.
It was a very interesting convention since it set in motion not only the 1989 loss at the polls (big internal feuds) but the 1990s internal feuds with leader after leader.
I know (or at least, I'm pretty sure) they were published in a very good book called "Leaders and Lesser Mortals" by Laschinger and a journalist whose name escapes me.
It had an appendix listing every leadership convention, federal & provincial, up to the date of its publication in '92. I don't think an updated version was ever published, and damned if I can find the copy I bought way back then anywhere.
Wikipedia has a number of leadership convention results, but not the NL-PC's, I don't think.
Oh, well. Maybe you can pester some of your regular sources for the results, and I'll see what I can dig up - I'll let you know if I ever find them.
Thanks anyway!
I shall consult the Dominion's foremost statistician.
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