In the middle of the 1990s, some guy - a “prominent young St. John’s lawyer” apparently thought the Tories should have a leadership contest because the caucus was behind Len Simms:
His reasoning: Simms will win anyway so endorsing a competitive political race would be a waste of PC party funds. It came down to money for him.
Now there’s an unfailing testimony to the sterile decline in respect for the value of democracy in the PC party of Newfoundland.
That prominent St. John’s lawyer? You guessed it — Danny Williams [via The Telegram letters page last week]
As Premier, Danny Williams gave Len Simms a plum patronage job heading the province’s housing corporation.
Hmmm.
Makes you wonder now about all the Danny sightings in and around the Confed Building the past couple of weeks and the rumours that he helped broker the back-room deal to keep Kathy Dunderdale in place.
Whatever is going on in those Conservative back-rooms and the front seat of an Escalade, it sure as heck ain’t about democracy.
- srbp -