Before Christmas Memorial University political science prof – and former Williams administration spin-meister - Alex Marland had some choice observations about his former boss and said boss’ apparent popularity with voters.
Umm, that bit of context didn’t appear in the Telegram story, by the by, even though it is more than a wee bit relevant to the story.
But anyway, Marland had this to say:
"It's something in political science we call economic regionalism," he said, explaining Williams is seen as somebody who's not trying to favour any particular group. "It's almost like he's trying to help out the Newfoundland society as a whole," Marland said.
Williams has also learned to target his anger and desire for reform against outsiders, he said, like Hydro-Quebec, New Brunswick or Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as opposed to people in the province.
Target his anger outside the province?
That’s what political scientists used to call bullshit.
Just ask all the traitors and quislings just exactly how far outside the province political anger gets targeted.
And economic regionalism?
Let’s just say that Marland was about as far off base on that one as he was on the anger ball thing.
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