The Family Feud continues unabated.
There must be a federal election coming.
The latest volley is a statement released by federal fish minister Loyola Hearn this afternoon:
It's interesting to hear the Premier say today that he was simply "stepping up to the plate" to fund arts initiatives within the province, and to highlight his own commitment to the arts.
Residents of Mount Pearl may find this message a little bit confusing. The original proposal for Mount Pearl's Lifestyle Centre included a local theatre. With federal and municipal money on the table, the Williams government responded that they would not fund the project if the federal government was involved.
In the end, the Lifestyle Centre became a victim of the ABC campaign, and will proceed without a theatre.
Hearn's a scrappy old silverback politician. You don't have to agree with his politics to appreciate that he's unlikely to take the sort of pokes Danny Williams has been making without hitting back. And it's not like Hearn has been afraid to go right up Danny's nose if need be to make a point.
But at this early stage of the campaign, it won't be too long before the Universal Rule is broken and someone's mother gets dragged dragged into the whole fracas.
Oh dear.
Fights in the family are always the ugliest.
How ugly?
Well, there's always this video of a very young, but no less irk-filled Danny Williams telling CBC's Deanne Fleet what a great premier Loyola Hearn would make.
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