Battleground BC: STV, Drugs, Game Changers, Burnaby, and The Premier
Advance editor (and STV opponent) Bob Groeneveld is having fun sparring with the pro-STV folks on his blog. For those keeping score at home, Bob is winning handily.
19-year-old Travis Erbacher, a drug legalization advocate, is the Green candidate in Fort Langley-Aldergrove, and featured here. This is the second straight election where Rich Coleman has had a pro-legalization candidate to deal with. You may recall Pot Party leader Marc Emery parachuting into Fort Langley-Aldergrove in 2005, suggesting seniors be euthanized in order to save health care dollars, and finishing 13,274 votes behind Coleman.
Over on Public Eye, blogger Sean Holman doesn't see much hope for the BC NDP campaign: "None of those dates are guaranteed to give the New Democrats a boost in the polls - especially when circumstance and incompetence are conspiring against them."
Apparently Carole James has been in Burnaby every day of the campaign. Good for the NDP in those swing ridings, but bad for them in every other swing riding across BC (Burnaby Politics).
Times editor Frank Bucholtz thinks Premier Gordon Campbell is swell, and he subtly endorses the two BC Liberal candidates. From today's Times:
19-year-old Travis Erbacher, a drug legalization advocate, is the Green candidate in Fort Langley-Aldergrove, and featured here. This is the second straight election where Rich Coleman has had a pro-legalization candidate to deal with. You may recall Pot Party leader Marc Emery parachuting into Fort Langley-Aldergrove in 2005, suggesting seniors be euthanized in order to save health care dollars, and finishing 13,274 votes behind Coleman.
Over on Public Eye, blogger Sean Holman doesn't see much hope for the BC NDP campaign: "None of those dates are guaranteed to give the New Democrats a boost in the polls - especially when circumstance and incompetence are conspiring against them."
Apparently Carole James has been in Burnaby every day of the campaign. Good for the NDP in those swing ridings, but bad for them in every other swing riding across BC (Burnaby Politics).
Times editor Frank Bucholtz thinks Premier Gordon Campbell is swell, and he subtly endorses the two BC Liberal candidates. From today's Times:
He complimented his two Langley MLAs, Mary Polak and Rich Coleman, who accompanied him on his visit to The Times. And the compliments are well-deserved - both are doing good jobs as MLAs and cabinet ministers. Coleman in particular has been given a number of challenging assignments in his eight years in cabinet, but hasn't lost sight of his constituency when there are pressing issues, such as the Brown's Pit gravel extraction plan.
posted by Jordan Bateman @ 8:09 AM
