Political junkies - especially every Tory in the province - will no doubt be glued to their sets tuned to NTV and their exclusive interview with Premier Danny Williams from his home in Florida. That’s where he is recovering from surgery which – as we now know – took twice or three times as long as originally anticipated.
As NTV news director Fred Hutton teased it up, they’ll be asking a good many questions including one about the Premier’s political future.
Odds are good those same political junkies will be pondering a few more questions in the months ahead, regardless of what the Premier tells Fred.
Questions like:
- Who among the current provincial Conservatives has been organizing already to replace The Leader when he finally decides to head off to Sarasota permanently?
- Who among them has the biggest war chest?
- Which provincial Tories won’t be running for re-election whenever the writ drops next for a general election?
These questions and others related to them may well be the most pertinent political questions to ask in Newfoundland and Labrador for the rest of this year.
Well that and the perennial favourite: “whatever happened to John Hickey’s lawsuit against Roger Grimes, anyway?”
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