Over at the redesigned voice of the cabinet minister website, there is now audio with just about every short news clip. In some cases there’s a bit of video.
In the story on a news release from opposition leader Yvonne Jones, the audio clip is from Dave ‘Sentence Fragments” Denine, the intergovernmental affairs minister.
Denine got scooped by the opposition, but never let it be said that VO didn’t make sure the CM got his own words on a story.
But that just raises another bunch of questions.
Denine’ s the guy who should have been talking about the fact the federal Conservatives aren’t delivering on their 2005 promise. After all, that’s the government talking point to try and deflect attention from the fact that most of them bought the Connie bullshit umpteen times after 2005.
For an opposition party, reminding Denine and the rest of that fact would be the logical starting point.
They could drag in John Hickey, the minister for Labrador Affairs who campaigned a couple of times on the bogus battalion alongside his federal Connie cousins.
And if all else failed, they’d could now tee off on Denine and Hickey for failing utterly to hold the federal Connies feet to the fire, to use that horrid phrase.
Instead, Jones goes after Stephen Harper as if she was a federal politician.
All is not lost in the local opposition world.
Jones now has the chance to go headlong at the local crowd. Denine – obviously knowing nothing at all about the military - refers to a bunch of buildings constructed decades ago for the air force as “first-class” infrastructure for the army. He then tells VOCM that he’ll be going back and have a chat with the federales to see where Goose Bay fits in.
Hint: it doesn’t.
Jones could be pinging political hit after political hit against the skulls of two incompetent cabinet ministers for building up false hopes in the people of Goose Bay when they should have known - and should now know – much better.
Shame on Dave and John, should be her line.
Shame on Steve is just too easy, too obvious and totally meaningless locally.
People around these parts - especially Bond Papers readers - already knew not to trust the federal Connies on the bullshit battalions.
All Denine does in his voice clip is pretend the promise is real.
Just wait until the ABC Leader gets back.
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