26 May Dan O’Connor’s posting style – ctd.

Posted at 09:15h in Media by

[Update below] Peter Spurway, who was director of communications for Premier John Hamm, writes:

I have no knowledge of what Dan may or may not have done around the Herald story.

That said, if he had simply declared who he was in the comment he posted in response to the story, all of this would have been avoided. (And whether his online comment qualified as an email to the newspaper is hair-splitting.)

By not posting his real name and interest in the story, Dan failed to be sufficiently transparent, in my view.

[Update] Defeated Liberal byelection candidate Miles Tompkins writes:

Amazing what one can miss on a four day excursion to the hills of the Margaree’s. I see the NDP is apoplectic about the charges of expenses re the wind energy announcement.  I’m not sure what the real expense was, and it is hardly a priority of mine in a province that has the lowest growth in Canada, the most unfavorable age structure. the poorest in migration, the highest disability rate  in Canada, highest dependency on CPP, the lowest labor force participation rate, and the highest income dependency ratio in Canada, and perhaps second in the per capita civil service workers. Lord knows we can spend.

Watching Dexter in opposition for so many years, it was like getting pecked to death by ducks. One reaps what they sew. My advice is to thicken your skin and get to work… it is one year into your mandate and I still look at their literature of the campaign every day on my board and see gaping holes in the promises PR’d to us as truths at that time. I knew they couldn’t do it and said as much, so please forgo the lectures regarding double standards and something called “the truth.”

My concern is the efforts on “Back to Balance” and the fact that that too is a falsehood greater than the 42,000 pesos being fought about…. and will not occur during this mandate. While in Margaree for 4 days we spent 11 million in interest payments.  The fact that someone isn’t screaming that in the CH makes me ill.