people call her Blunderdale.
Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale has taken to answering opposition questions with an odd air of arrogance about her. She tries to taunt and put down the questioner in a way that…well.. doesn’t work.
Some people can carry on arrogantly and get away with it - sort of - because their abilities are far above that of others. Maybe their response is so witty that you just don’t see the arrogant jab.
Dunderdale ain’t one of those people by a long stretch.
MS DUNDERDALE: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, I am going to divulge the name of his source. It is the Leader of the Opposition, and I gave her that information in Estimates, earlier this week, that these actions had been taken. We told her that the report had been received, although I had not been briefed at this point in time.
She was responding to a question by the opposition house leader about an audit into the local chicken marketing board.
Problem for Dunderdale was Kelvin Parsons could simply rebut her asinine comment:
MR. KELVIN PARSONS: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
The minister must surely have a problem with timelines because she did her Estimates on Monday night of this week with the Leader of the Opposition. My questions were asked in this House of the minister last December. That is the source to which I refer, that told us there was indeed a forensic audit being done, which you denied at the time and you said you would check it out and get back, which the minister failed to do, and has not done now until it was taken out of her and pried out of her in the Estimates Committees again.
Mr. Speaker, the people who contacted our office certainly believe - and this was back in December - the people who contacted our office and provided the information back in December had very good information that there were financial irregularities. These people made significant allegations.
I ask the minister: Can you confirm that anyone in your office was, in fact, dismissed as a result of what happened involving this matter?
Now this is not the first time Dunderdale has had a problem disclosing things factually in the House of Assembly. She got into serious trouble in late December 2006 when she wound up misleading the House – and by extension everyone else in the province – about details surrounding a public tendering controversy that had led ultimately to cabinet firing one of their political appointees: Joan Cleary.
So serious did Dunderdale Blunder that her boss had to slam the House closed noticeably early to avoid everyone realising what had happened and calling for the head of one his most faithful lapdogs.
Then there’s the time last December when she couldn’t accurately recall what she’d said the week before.
First Danny Williams appointed Tom Rideout to run the place on all those occasions when DW is not around.
Tom left.
Then he picked Kathy Dunderdale to be his Number Two.
Does anyone else see a pattern here?
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