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Premier Elect Campbell, A Three-Peat

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:44 PM

Prince George, B.C.- Gordon Campbell has scored a three-peat.
In his victory speech, he started off by thanking all the British Columbians who went out to vote regardless of who they voted for.
He thanked Carole James, the Leader of the New Democrats for calling him and agreed this is the time for everyone to work together “We have to remember this is about our kids and grand kids and making it better for them.”
He offered thanks to the volunteers who worked so hard to bring out a constructive message about how to make B.C. stronger. 
“I think tonight is a night too that British Columbians should be proud.”  He said the ballot reaffirmed there were steps that had to be taken, that may not have been easy to take, but that the steps had to be taken because they were the right steps. That was a reference to the carbon tax which was thought to have been a real threat to the Liberal candidates in the rural parts of the province.
He promised to work hard to help boost economic diversity in all parts of the province, and thanked each candidate and their families, for all their contributions.
“ Naturally I want to say thank you to my family particularly to Nancy, Jeff and Nicholas for standing by me for the 25 years I have been in politics, without the support of my family I could not be here tonight and I want to thank each of you.”

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Well this is a great day for BC. I hope Liberals can continue doing a great job and help Bc grow!

Now if we can get Harper a majority the country will thrive even better.......
I predict:

1. ecological catastrophe on the private damn rivers.

2. $100,000 wages for 2 year cops

3. prolonged impunity for officers of the court who commit crimes

4. American tenure claims on our water resources.

5. doubling of the Public Affairs Bureau's 250 goof bureaucracy.

6. provincial subsidy for Canwest media.

7. low prioritization of Health

8. harsher penalties for victimless crimes.

9. more in custody Murders by cops.

10. further exclusion of the Defence Bar from judicial service.

11. continued public nausea in face of the dorky drones who the Libs put into office. Most of those over-achievers do a great impression of wall-paper.

Strong Lib Supporter = spineless, stuttering weasel who fetches coffee at the office, and who needs to feel part of something larger than his wretched self. Feels deserved shame when he looks in the mirror. At middle age, he keeps his cherished Bionic Man doll of his wasted youth, in a box. Did I hit all points?
No you forgot selling off Hydro
Strong NDP supporter = whinny little B!tChes who will complain about anything and everything, grade school education at best, depend heavily on government support checks and programs. Incapable of fending for themselves and are angry at Liberal supports for having jobs and being successful even during tough economic times.
well say good-bye to bc hydro and our rivers it seems we like crooked politicians coruption trials before the courts not to mention all the user fees and tax hikes we have seen and the job losses.. mm more of the same only worse i think ..congrats to all
No the NDP can join the Canucks on the golf course and bitch about life together!
I watched the election at the Liberal office than went over to the Coast had a nice dinner and was happy to see a group of people honestly care about where they live and the people they share this community with. I didn't feel any class thing go on at all. I did see however common peers that seemed to enjoy politics and each others company. My only bitch was to bad there wasn't more single women there. That would of been cool to have met a political junkie like myself. Enough said
NDP supporter = needs to work in the government sector, because she has no idea where the money comes from. Likes to continue to whine, because she works in a unionized environment, where she is never in the wrong.
Truth, do you have something against the RCMP. it appears your a bit bitter.
Must suck to be on the loosing side. tee hee hee hee hee
EGBG, What are you talking about "whinny little B!tches", virtually all over the world we are seeing business with their hands out begging for corporate welfare, all the while complaining about anything and everything.

These companies are incapable of fending for themselves, and depend heavily on government support checks and programs.

These same companies are angry that workers who work for them may want a fair negotiated wage and benefit package.

These same companies are angry at organized labour for standing up for workers and want to renegotiate any labour agreements because many of these business leaders did not have the business sense to plan for a rainy day.

So who is the biggest abuser of welfare EGBG?
The days of the unions are numbered. They are getting to big and too corrupt. There is so much money going missing in them offices. yet, they have no problems cutting back your pensions. Of course you can never stand up and say anything with out be taken care off.
The days of huge corporations are numbered. They are getting too big and too corrupt. There is so much money going missing in them offices (huge bonuses to average to poor CEO's), yet they have no problems cutting back your pensions (back room deals with the Ont Gov on not paying in negotiated pension funds). Of course you can never stand up and say anything with out being taken care of.

Give me a break!
All this left wing psycho-babble is exactly what stops reasonable people from voting NDP. Grow up & you might stand a chance. Luckily, that will never happen.
I think the so-called Green Party "won" yesterday's election.

Correct me if I've got this wrong, but I think the Greens are not about the environment at all; they're about pulling enough votes away from the New Democrats ...

and delivering them to their spiritual leader, to assure him of his amazing electoral victories. Happened in 2005 as well.

Where only a handful of votes separates the winner and loser, those Green votes make a critical difference.

The deception is part of what makes B.C. politics so unpleasant, and betrays the trust of its citizens. Well-intentioned, good people will vote "Green" thinking it means environmental protection for the future.

Ha. Nice work, Gordo; he's the guy who rescinded legislation so that B.C.'s Dogwood, wild Rhododendrons, and woodland Trilliums are no longer officially protected. Green? I don't think so.


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Premier Elect Campbell, A Three-Peat...
you bet...and still a criminal as well!!!!...more to come????
The Greens are only 'green' so long as the hand that feeds THEM keeps feeding them. They'll never bite that hand, no matter how much it's degraded, or degrading, the whole environment just so long as they can continue to get THEIR'S.

Bloody hypocrites, the lot of them, if you ask me. Or even if you don't. And you're not far off in your assessment, BC Mary. Take a look sometime at the background of some of their more prominent supporters, worldwide. They'll never be government, or even 'Save the Environment'. They're just dupes, being manipulated to be 'spoilers'.

One of the most prominent UK Greens is Peter Melchett. His family owned the lion's share of Imperial Chemical Industries, one of the worst polluters of all time while it was building the Mond (original family name, before a peerage was granted an ancestor) family's fortune. The one that he now lives quite comfortably on, while doing his best to stifle anyone else's economic activity, no matter how benign. Nothing like protecting one's priviledged position.

Time after time I've seen how the "Greenies" come into a building supply, they of the superior "Environmental consciousness", and all so vehemently against the cutting of any of our their self-styled "Ancient forests". They'll spend half a day picking through a whole pile of lumber looking for all the fine-grained 'old growth' to use for their own projects.

They wouldn't think of using anything else. And if they send in a contractor to get their wood for them, he'll be instructed to make sure he comes back with the 'old growth', not any of that coarse grained, second-growth stuff. "Those who're guilty know their shame," as the saying goes.

They remind me of the strident Socialists of old, who were all for socialism as long as it was somebody else's property that was being socialized. The minute the government touched anything of THEIRS, though, suddenly you'd find they were further to the right than "Attilla the Hen."

Fortunately, for us, most of our NDP 'socialists' nowadays are really just would-be capitalists without any capital! They have their failings and inanities, some they can never seem to shake, but generally they still seem to be a good deal more honest than what we've just re-annointed as our "Fearless Leader" for another four years.

"Where only a handful of votes separates the winner and loser, those Green votes make a critical difference."

Inarguably, they could have decided the election.