On Wednesday we warned the government was putting on the push to slam the House closed.
It’s twoo, It’s twoo, as Lily von Schtup would say. Even voice of the cabinet minister is covering it.
The reason: nurses strike.
If the House is open on Wednesday, nurses will be filling the galleries and the opposition will be hammering away at the provincial government asking all sorts of difficult questions.
Hardly likely the provincial government would want that when their pollster is in the field collecting the quarterly harvest of poll goosing results.
Very embarrassing would it be to have nurses doing even one tenth what the crab crowd did to government in the spring of 2005.
Not only that but with cracks opening within the government caucus there could be a sorry-assed repeat of the whole Fabian Manning fiasco. Seriously, people. If Ray Hunter has to get up from his uncomfortable new pew to refute an accusation he’s been muzzled – and thereby confirm the accusation – then you know there are others who are feeling a tad unsettled trapped between the wishes of their constituents and the diktats that come via blackberry from the Tower.
Ray’s on edge. Who else? Sullivan maybe and the pressure she must be under from people in central Newfoundland pissed off about Abitibi.
Jim Baker and the crowd in Labrador west? More bad news coming on Friday, if rumours pan out.
Anyone feeling heat from Corner Brook and the failed Grenfell autonomy thing? Increasing uncertainty about the Kruger mill and one of its machines?
How about townie MHAs? Or those from the Third City? Must be hard having all those former mayors in one spot and the guy who goes in to cabinet is the one who can’t speak in whole sentences.
Close the House and let the pollster do his part in poll goosing saga free from all that “counter-spinning negativity”. The line still brings a chuckle since it starts from the premise that there is “spinning” in the first place that is being countered. Think of it as a round about confession, like telling Randy Simms that if one wanted to goose polls one would start the week before the pollster goes to the field. Which of course is exactly what they do.
Anyway, it’s not like someone didn’t tell you what was going on.
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