The Liberals are touting their latest campaign-style television spot featuring Dwight Ball talking about accountability and connecting with voters. In the spot, he’s driving somewhere in the driving province and as he talks the thing cuts to shots of him talking to people. Remember that the latest poll shows that
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Contrasting Speeches #nlpoli
Liberal leader Dwight Ball and Conservative leader-designate Frank Coleman delivered speeches in St. John’s last week and you couldn’t have scripted more startling contrasts. Ball delivered a speech at an event that reflected his party’s standing in the polls: more than 500 people who paid $500 a head to attend.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Principle, Parliament, and Money #nlpoli
The House of Assembly unanimously voted in favour of a bill on Tuesday that gives the government permission to spend $2.8 billion as part of next years budget. Officially, it is called interim supply. It’s “interim” because the bill fills in the period between the 2013 budget – the last
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Paul Lane: 2, Dwight Ball: 0 #nlpoli
Paul Lane scored big on Monday. First, he secured his nomination and his seat in the next provincial election by running as a Liberal. As long as the party continues on its current track, Lane will win easy re-election not on his own merits but – as in 2011 –
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Leading by example #nlpoli
The Liberal Party executive may have screwed up by failing to put in place any campaign finance rules during the recent leadership but the candidates are putting it right. Liberal leader Dwight Ball and three of his four fellow candidates released information on their campaign expenses on Monday. Ball committed
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Grits gain from Cons and Dippers #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale doesn’t govern by polls. That’s what she told reporters – yet again – as they asked her about yet another poll that showed the provincial Conservatives aren’t doing so well with eligible voters. Then Kathy explained to reporters that the polls told her that she and her
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Lead by Example #nlpoli
Dwight Ball is the leader of the Liberal Party. He now has a chance to lead by example when it comes to donations for his leadership campaign. Ball told CBC News that he spent somewhere between $200,000 and $300,000 on his leadership campaign. Even though the party executive failed to
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Every day can bring them one step closer #nlpoli
Liberal supporters in the province elected Dwight Ball as the new party leader in voting that ended on Sunday. By the time this appears on Monday morning, you will likely have heard most of the obvious comments. You will also have heard or read about how this leadership contest staked
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Steep Curves and Third Place #nlpoli
Liberal leader Dwight Ball told CBC’s David Cochrane this past weekend that his job as Opposition Leader came with a steep learning curve. Indeed it does and on Monday, Ball proved just how steep the curve is. (Read more…)
Continue readingPressing Politics: The NL Big Picture: NDP Tops Tories in New Poll, Liberals Showing Signs of Return
It has certainly been an interesting couple of days. On Wednesday I published a blog which argued that for the first time in post-confederation NL history, the upcoming provincial election in 2015 would be wide open race between three parties. … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Time to end the despicable abuse #nlpoli
Through her shouting and bawling it is hard to know if Yvonne Jones does not know what she is talking about or does not care. Either way, the result is the same. On Wednesday, Jones kept up her shouting about the tragic death of Burton Winters. She has been talking
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A fundamental lack of competence #nlpoli
One crowd can’t even successfully rig a process they set out to rig from the start. So now the Premier wants to have a debate she earlier rejected as unnecessary in a legislature she once called dysfunctional. Meanwhile, another crowd of politicians decides to frig off to Ottawa to support
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