19 December 2005

Rent-an-opinion ?

Heard on radio call-in shows:

Brain-trust of the Roger Grimes administration, former leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador Party, advisor to the leader of the Progressive Conservative opposition and queen of the radio talk shows, Sue Kelland Dyer, spouting some inane political theory that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians need a Harper Conservative minority government.

According to Dyer, the Conservatives would have a majority of their seats outside Ontario, and therefore the province would have greater influence. She obviously failed Politics 101. The party striving for a majority government will put its political weight to win seats where it doesn't have them. Hence, in the Dyer world, more Conservative cash and influence would flow towards Ontario and Quebec not away from it.

Then again, it's not the first time that Sue said something that made no sense.

Her sudden re-appearance on the political scene was as inexplicable as her argument was bizarre. Until...

Seen on a Conservative campaign bus in Petty Harper Harbour:

Sue Kelland Dyer. Several people have reported this in conversation, all with the same basic information: Sue's sitting on the advance bus and doing everything possible to avoid the media, all of whom know her and her unusual take on the world.

If Sue is working with the Conservatives in any way, then she needs to disclose it.

Otherwise, her calls to open line shows have been misleading in more ways than one.