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Ramping up for the all-important television debate, the New Democratic Party released three new, very effective television ads. Windows Media Player is required to view the NDP ads on the Liberals’ despicable record over the past four years, and the necessity for a strong, balanced and compassionate government in British Columbia, a government that will allow all British Columbians to share in the wealth created in this province.
Over to the right, VanRamblings has added another site of interest to our regularly-updated BC election blogroll, this time the provocative, thoughtful and frequently updated Have You Had Enough, Yet? website, created by Surrey teacher Bill Piket, and the folks at Black Rock Communications.
In his latest column for The Tyee, broadcaster Rafe Mair suggests that “if the NDP gets a bit lucky there’s still room for an upset.”
With the Liberals sitting at seven points up you would think that May 17th would be a slam dunk for Campbell & Co. and so it will likely prove. But if there is to be an upset … I would be looking behind those numbers for signs that there may be weaknesses in the Liberal position … the Liberals must worry about Vancouver Island and large pockets of the interior and the north where their numbers are not great … then there is the environment, something that the Liberals have ignored except to the extent they’ve allowed their pals to bugger it up … (although) a seven point lead for the Liberals looks insurmountable … if it gets much closer as the day approaches, look-out. If the popular vote is that close, and the NDP gets a bit lucky, there could be an upset.
Meanwhile, Tyee contributing editor Barbara McLintock has ten questions for Gordon Campbell, ranging from his government’s position on continued public service layoff and a consequent move toward more privatization, to whether or not further cuts will be made to the child welfare budget.
Finally, Vancouver professor, poet, and polemicist Robin Mathews writes about the “attack on ordinary” British Columbians in both part one and part two of his essay, A Time to Rage, where he reflects on “the savage attack by the Campbell corporate totalitarians upon decent living in B.C.”
