The whole thing is easy to figure out if you just look at it.
Tuesday night proved to be a “holy f***, that was close” moment for the people running the Liberal Party and for people, like John Efford, who want to run the party.
Now that the danger has passed they want to get right back to the old ways of doing business that put the party in his current sorry state.
Of course, the real message in this job competition is even more stark: the Liberals have told the universe that they are not thinking for a second about rebuilding or the future or anything so grand. They just want to flesh out the staff chart or hire on a defeated candidate who needs a job.
So what did the party do with the chief of staff job?
Well, he didn’t get defeated but the new chief of staff in the Liberal opposition office is an ex-candidate in need of a job. From VOCM:
VOCM News has learned that Kelvin Parsons is the new Liberal chief of staff.
The Liberals placed a job ad with close of applications at 5:00 PM on Friday. Yvonne Jones made the decision by Monday evening. There’s no way anyone can run a proper competition, weigh the candidates and make a sensible, fair decision that fast even if the process itself was the wrong one in the first place.
The fix was in from the start.
The job ad was just window dressing.
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