Kathy Dunderdale spent most of her time in year-end interviews lamenting her critics.
No accomplishments.
No vision thing.
Just a lot of carping.
Lots of grousing about her critics and even a reference to the problems free speech in the legislature are causing her.
She said she kept the House of Assembly closed because it was dysfunctional, and a waste of time, and everyone else was useless.
Can’t ask proper questions, dontchya know. Kathy-approved intelligent questions.
Now, as the Telegram’s James Macleod puts it, the story is a little different:
Dunderdale has said repeatedly that there’s a simple reason for leaving the House closed: the government had no legislation to pass.
All that and the glories of Muskrat Falls, even though she - herself – spends more time griping about everyone else rather than explaining the whole thing to people.
It is all just so boringly familiar.
The relentless negativity, that is.
Follow that second link if you haven’t already. It will lead you to a quote from the Old Man Hisself circa November 2009:
But Williams said he's not going to stick around forever "to beat a dead horse" if a deal cannot be sealed, nor will he sign a bad deal [to develop the Lower Churchill] for the sake of getting one done while in office.
Hmmm.
In an interview with CBC to be broadcast Friday evening, Williams says he left office suddenly in late 2010 because he couldn’t handle the criticism anymore.
His skin got thin again, apparently.
When Williams left office he said it was because he had just inked a deal with Nova Scotia to develop the Lower Churchill that was by no means a give away.
And as for that promise about no deal just to get out of the job?
Well, let’s just say that Harvey’s has salt for sale by the bucket load down at the waterfront.
Buy lots.
You’ll need it.
- srbp -