There are important questions missed in such weighty issues, such as who talks goodest, who wears the hippest threads, and which politicians ooze sexuality like lions and lionesses in heat?
As to the sexiest woman running, there's no real contest. A sassy PC Saint John MLA who started covering politics as a young lass out of Newfoundland back in 1982. Reporting for CTV and CBC, she later entered business and then won office in 1999, serving as Minister of Transportation, Status of Women, Public Safety, Training & Employment Development and Labour and for then as official opposition on many issues. If you vote in Rothesay, consider yourself sexily represented by Margaret-Ann Blaney (more images).
PS - To all the people considering voting for a third party this election, I have one message: get off the drugs. The only thing I hear people say about not wanting the PCs in power is that Alward is somehow slow or not shiny enough - they've made too many promises or not told enough about what they're going to cut. Maybe so, but splitting the vote and winding up with another 4 years of the Graham mafia in charge is about the last thing New Brunswick needs in this double dip kind of world.
None of the other candidates have anything over on him far as I can tell, and to vote Green or NDP out of reality denial seems a shame. - Dan F.
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Cross posted to QSLS Politics
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I don't like this hijacked version of Sunday sexy time.
Thanks for telling me how to vote Dan! What would I do without you?
Seems many NBers got the message.
Better luck in 2014 hippies.
Troy Lifford took out TJ and is much sexier anyways...
Great, another 4 years of useless twittery. For the first time in a while Dan's comments regarding the possibility of vote splitting are grounded in realism. Unfortunately the conservatives are just as inept (if not more) as the grits at running this province. Alward is gonna sit on his hands for four years hoping that doing nothing will get him reelected and fatten up that pension. It's really depressing. John, the gun registry is federal politics, Graham had no say in that so I hope that's not what swayed your vote. Blaney is hot, and deserving of a vigorous Rogering. TJ is.....also deserving a vigorous rogering.
I think NB needs to redefine what it wants from it's politicians.
Totally agree that Alward has said absolutely nothing of substance, and his announced policies are deep thoughts like freezing power rates... Pointless, ineffective, lame.
I'm not defending the Liberal's record under Graham, but I do feel bad because he tried to shake things up and was completely rejected by the voters. Whenever he tried to push for real change the electorate dug in their heals. It doesn't seem to pay to have any new ideas in NB.
Consider NB Power. Regardless of how you feel about it, something needs to be done about the fiscal state of our province. I don't think the Libs handled it well at all, but the flat out rejection of this proposal is symptomatic of our conservative nature. Something as radical as the sale of a utility needs to be on the agenda. Instead, we've put our heads back in the sand.
Leaders are going to look at
how NB voters systematically punish new ideas, and quickly realize that the way to maintain power in NB is to feed voters a stream of the same old, same old.
What do New Brunswickers want? What we want is what we've got, but we're not going to be able to keep it for long if we stay the course we're heading on. Nothing really radical needs to be done, but doing nothing is not going to get us anywhere either. We need to PROPERLY manage the province.
I agree with Dan in that we can't afford to give away scads of money to save dodgy companies. I disagree with Dan in that the only choice was to vote conservative. A vote for any of the three smaller parties would have boosted their war chest for the next election by a couple of bucks per vote. If every qslser in NB had voted for the green party they might they would have gained a couple hundred bucks, and maybe some confidence.
I use the greens only as an example, as I think their leader is a Jackass (pardon the pun) and disagree with their stance on nuclear energy. My point is that to state that vote splitting isn't really a bad idea. Nor do I think that minorty governments are either.
In a minorty government authority is shared amongst parties and concensus must be acheived in order get things done. Sure its not as easy to manage and it's turbulent, but egos and affiliations get set aside to do the work of government and the free reign to do as one party may wish to do is also reigned in.
Take the fed situation right now for example, who knows what would be happening right now after a couple of terms of Harperdom. The minorty situation, though drudgingly slow and tedious has limited the authority of the ruling party in a semi-positive way. Sure we're still pissing money away on the gun registry because of it, but so what if you have to jump through a couple of hoops before you can buy your semi-auto rifle. (The real issue there is the inequity that's created by making guns too expensive and bothersome for the "economically challenged" to get)
Sticking to prov politics. I've got a couple of predictions to make: 1. we will go deeper in debt 2. Alward will be just as boring as Lord 3. Government will continue to be mismanaged. 4. the Libs will win the next one, by a small margin and nothing will really change then either.
Unless, we mobilize and get Ferg elected
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