OctoberFest
So Scott Brison came in and spoke to a reasonablly full house on Friday.
He was funny and informative.
Senator Grant Mitchell showed up as well.
He was annoying.
People paid good money to come and listen to Scott.
Mitchell was not even on the tickets and then he shows up and gives what seemed like a 15 minute introduction and then gets up during the question and answer period and babbles on and on.
Has anyone noticed that since this guy was made a Senator the Liberal party is in trouble, this should not be a surprise given what he did to the Provincial Libs.
What a maroon!
Apart form that the dinner went well and as I said Brison was his always charming self.
He does a great Joe Clark impression and repeated a joke that Clark told at his wedding (Brison's).
"Jean Chretien and I are members of a very exclusive club, former Prime Ministers of Canada. May our ranks grow quickly."
Octoberfest
So this Friday Scott Brison will be in Calgary to be the guest at the Calgary Nose Hill/Calgary Womens policy Network Octoberfest.
He will also be meeting with riding presidents and stuff.
I will pass on any good info if I hear it but everyone should go to the octoberfest as the money will go to woman candidates for the election!!
The Return
SO after being gone for a long time.... it is defiantly time to come back.
Life has been very busy and complicated but things should be clear for a while so here we go.
First off...
Jean Chretien.
Now this guy
here thinks that Johnny C was perfect and great.
He also abdicates any responsibility for the current state of the party.
I liked Chretien, he was a pretty decent PM.
I supported Martin but mostly because I thought if he was able he would have started to rebuild the party in the west, specifically Alberta.
That said, I was never one who wanted Chretien forced out.
We are Liberals.
Liberals do not behave that way.
you know like Tories.
Now with his book Johnny C is starting it all up again, so I have to say.
"Where is the stuff about what Johnny C and HIS gang of thugs did to this
guy."
Because that's kinda where this all started isn't it.
And if that is true then that makes this
guy the real cause of a lot of our problems.
So when Warren starts spouting off about rotten Martin and saintly Jean I start to sputter a little.
The truth is that that both of them and even to a extent this
guy. did not give a damm about the party.
It was a tool to make them PM.
Tools can rust and bend and get broken if they are not taken care of.
So for Warren to go on about how he does not give a damm about the Federal party any more I get a little upset.
Taking your ball and going home are you Warren?
The Liberal Party helped make you what you are today. A lot of people in Calgary helped you.
Sure you did a lot yourself, you worked hard, wrote some good books but do not get all holy on us.
You have blood on your hands.
Lots of us do.
We have to get this truck out of the ditch not for us but for the country as a whole.
If we don't we will end up like these
guys.
Liberals do not wage leadership war.
We give this
guy, who I did not support in the race.
ALL of our support now.
Measured, reasonable criticism is allowed.
BS is not.
Stampede Week
So the annual Calgary Liberal Stampede Breakfast went off this past week.
It was held at the Mac Hall ball room at the U of C, unusual location but seemed to work. Had a better turnout then last year.
Dion showed up and did the keynote, did a good job, very very funny speech.
One of the best parts of the day was that the organizers did a tribute to Dan Hays since he has retired from the Senate.
They managed to find a bunch of the buttons he had from when he ran as Party president, and everyone wore them.
Dan Hays seemed really touched, it was a nice moment.
Dion also showed up at the legendary Hays breakfast on Sunday.
He did a much better job of going around and shmoozing then Harper did, Harper just stood in the corner surrounded by his RCMP guys and did not meet anyone.
Dion even drank the sillibub.
Rob Anders showed up with his usual posse of cute young boys, leaving no doubt in anyones minds about his real orientation.
Jason Kenny looked jealous.
Getting over it
So I was really really angry and upset with what happened at the convention. Especially the behavior of some dionistas during the final vote and later that evening. (spitting on people should never be acceptable)
It was very difficult for me to face the level of abuse I received given that Dion had always been my second choice, I had never been critical of him, I had many good friends on his campaign and I had even provided help to his campaign in lots of small ways.
I felt very betrayed by the comments made about Michael by the dionistas. I was concerned by the fact that the martinite braintrust is central to his team.
mostly I was sad that my guy lost.
In Alberta it is hard to be on winning campaigns, they are few and far between if you are a Liberal. I thought Michael was the best choice.
I am slowly coming around to acceptance.
What will I do with Dion as Leader.
I will never knowingly do anything to harm him or my party.
Hopefully over time I will become enthusiastic about him and put the same effort that I put into previous campaigns.
but man, the nastiness hurt.... Especially as it was so unexpected
Dion needs to fix this right away
This is what we are facing for the next election cycle
here.
This has to dealt with right away!!!!
Is this the right message?
What does everyone think of the fact that Dion did not show up at the Liberal Party Party on Saturday night but only went to his own party.Are things starting off the same as they ended.Is Mark Marissen starting "the board" part 2.It sure felt that way on Sunday.I am sure not holding my breath waiting for a call from our new lords and masters.
Finally some truth
I really really like this.
