Provincial Election making BC volatile

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The civil war is coming@!

By Janis Cleugh
The Tri-City News
Apr 23 2005
BC Liberal and NDP supporters shouted at each other from across the street before NDP leader Carole James arrived in Port Coquitlam Wednesday.
The two factions squared off in front of the PoCo provincial courthouse, waving signs for their respective candidates and making noise to draw attention.
Roloff Veld, president of the PoCo Liberal riding association, said he was there to hear what the opposition leader had to say. Liberal candidate Greg Moore stayed away "because he didn't want there to be any confrontation," he said.
Still, Veld and his team got an earful from Mike Farnworth's supporters. "This is disgusting," one woman said, pointing to a Moore sign. "You have no class."
NDP organizer Brad West shook hands with Veld, as did PoCo-Burke Mountain NDP candidate Mike Farnworth, who chatted briefly about the election. "When is your leader coming to town?" West asked.
Local NDPers said they were buoyed with James' arrival on the second day of the campaign. That morning, Farnworth said they put up signs at a PoCo lawyer's office on Shaughnessy Street - directly above his rival's campaign office.
"He goes, 'I want the biggest signs you've got,'" Farnworth told reporters. "Not one, but three, and I want them right on the railing in front of my office, above campaign office.'
"That shows the turnaround in this campaign between this election and 2001," Farnworth said. "This is a fun campaign. The last campaign was brutal."
James, who mis-pronounced Farnworth's name twice and didn't take reporters' questions after her speech, said she's confident PoCo-Burke Mountain will swing back to the NDP after four years under Liberal MLA Karn Manhas, who is not running for re-election. In 2001, the Liberals swept the election, taking 77 of 79 provincial seats up for grabs, leaving the NDP nearly in ruins.
In her speech to supporters, James listed Premier Gordon Campbell's "broken promises" during his first term and made fun of him for not producing a platform and excluding himself from Liberal election advertising. "It's typical of Gordon Campbell and the Liberals," she said. "They're hiding from any questions. They're hiding from the truth and the New Democrats are going to stand up for all British Columbians because everyone matters."
James was in the Coquitlam-Maillardville riding earlier that day to rally NDP candidate Diane Thorne in her challenge of incumbent MLA Richard Stewart.

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1. I'd agree some of the tactics of the Libs have been pretty cheesy...

...like what was up with that "Hamburgler" thing. That was just embaressing for them, the guy pretended to be "just a concerned citizen", and then admitted to working on some Liberal MLA's campaign -- and with a little research was apparently the head of the BC Liberal Youth Wing. "Just a concerned citizen" indeed. And whats up with keeping Campbell away from all the reporters? And making sure everyone at his events is a Liberal supporter. They won't allow people inside places if they don't show that they're Liberal supporters. While one guy did sneak in he was haulled off when he heckled the Premier. Jeesh what is this a Bush "town hall" meeting?

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2. Umm, where did you hear that?

I agree the Libs are fucking cheesy, and slimy.

However, I interviewed the Premier the other day and it was no issue, it wasn't the exclusive I was promised. But it was myself and three other reporters in a room with him.
Here, people were walking freely in and out of the Liberal Rally, they just didn't want protesters inside, which is a security decision. As well, I remember at a fast ferries opening security keeping protesters away from the NDP. If I showed up at an NDP event wearing a "NDP sucks" sign, I wouldn't be allowed in.

That burger thing was hilarious.. did you hear the audio?

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3. Locking

First please note that DU respects copyright laws and expects fair use to be given to all copyrighted material. This is usually only 3-4 paragraphs at most with a link.

However, because the link no longer references the article, there is no way for me to examine if this was truly copyrighted or not.

Locking.

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