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Archive for September 23rd, 2008

As much as Danny Williams seems to hate Stephen Harper, he obviously can’t stomach including the Green Party in his vicious ABC (Anyone But Conservative) campaign - Williams won’t Support Green Party (Chronicle Herald - H/T National Newswatch)

Here we see a situation of cognitive dissonance where practicality wins over revenge. The mental contortions that old Danny went through trying to reach this decision must have been painful.

Elizabeth May seems to think that she and Williams can reach some kind of compromise, but judging from this official party release on the issue, I don’t see much wiggle-room.

Hopefully voters in Newfoundland and Labrador will be able to sort this one out on their own.

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Related: From a few weeks ago - Premier Williams only has one vote, Harper says.

Update : Tonight on MDL, Mike Duffy made a special announcement (following the clip on Briony Penn), that Robert Fife’s previous report that Danny Williams had been strong-arming people to not vote Conservative was unsubstantiated.

Strange that Robert Fife would go out on a limb like that. In any case, Duff apologized to Danny Williams…

Duff’s exact words were:

"…some Conservative party workers there told CTV news that they were being intimidated and threatened by people representing Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams. Some of the allegations were made by very senior Tories in Newfoundland, including Loyola Hearne, David Wells, and former Provincial Fisheries Minister Jim Morgen. CTV News identified these sources and then later interviewed them on the air. Premier Williams denies that he or any of his camp is involved in ‘dirty tricks’. CTV News went back, investigated the allegation and we actually found no one who had actual first hand evidence who would come forward and appear on camera.

As a result of that, we want to fully apologize to Premier Danny Williams for what we reported that weekend."