03 February 2007

Williams money recall: Lipstick on a pig

Give the Telegram editorialist credit for stating it plainly and correctly.

In Saturday's editorial, the province's largest circulation daily tells its largest daily audience that it just isn't good enough for Danny Williams to ask his fellow politicians to return money now that they were caught getting it.

The payment itself is called "sleazy, dishonest and downright underhanded."

Absolutely.
The current crop of MHAs, rightly or wrongly, are now marked by their behaviour, maybe for the rest of their political careers. And because of that, they should be fully and publicly policed — they may not realize it, but if they had done the same as a civil servant, they would now be fired.
Let's see what happens.