August is polling month for the provincial government’s pollster. You can tell because on the first working day of the money, cash announcements and announcements of announcements flowed like water:
- a “celebration” of the first anniversary of interest free student loans;
- $22,000 for culture and heritage groups in the finance minister’s district (called a region so they can claim they don’t hand out cash based on political districts);
- $15,675 in money for sports in the Port au Port district;
- $10,000 for something called “regional games”, this time in the “central” region;
- More than $116,000 in job creation money for St. George’s-Stephenville East district;
- Notice that there’ll be a health funding announcement on Tuesday; and,
There were 12 announcements made on August second. Two were public advisories and another four were media advisories, including warning of a media availability later on Monday and a funding announcement on Tuesday. One of the dozen announcements covered the closure of the school for the deaf.
In other words, outside of the media and public routine announcements, the provincial government issued six news releases on Monday.
Five of them were about spending.
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