Tory candidate Keith Russell must be in a desperate battle to win his seat.
He’s trotted out the old patronage card in a bid to boost his chances. The district better vote the right way, warns Russell or else no megaprojects for Labrador.
Here’s how the Telegram reported his comments:
we have to be on government’s side to access government coffers…
Candidates who trot out the truth of the way the Tories have been handling things like road paving over the past seven years usually get slapped down not for what they said but for saying it out loud.
Wonder what Kathy Dunderdale will do to Russell now that he has voiced the threat implicit in the Conservatives’ campaign pork-fest.
Incidentally, the Telegram notes that Russell – who used to work for the Innu nation – testified at the joint review panel hearings and raised concerns about the Muskrat Falls megadebt project. The Telegram didn’t do Russell’s testimony justice, but that’s another story.
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