Remember that date.
Monday.
September
17.
Two weeks from today.
Williams told reporters that date last week.
Call Elections NL and that's the date they will tell you.
They will also tell you people have been casting votes already.
Yes, people, the election started two weeks ago.
That's what makes the whole thing increasingly farcical.
Farcical, as in idiotic, as in having the House of Assembly management committee boasting it had stopped members of the House from using their allowances during the election period.
Problem 1: There are no members of the House of Assembly one the election proclamation is issued and the House is dissolved and the seats are vacated.
Do they think we are stupid or are they that stunned?
Problem 2: The election has been on all summer, what with the Premier and his Winnebago running around dispensing public cash to anyone with their hand stuck out. The House management committee - including three of the cabinet ministers who approved the Summer of Love spending spree - knows full well that what they announced amounts to the old limerick about some guy named Paul's hexagonal sphere.
Problem 3: Even if that weren't true, voting started on August 20. The fantasy restriction doesn't start until 17 September. Big freakin' deal.
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