Yukon government union employee runs to media claiming I’m “intimidating” him

As a follow-up to my post on the CBC hiding the backgrounds of two people complaining about receiving robocalls and as I updated,  started looking into it (see here).

This is the email I sent to Nardi who is the Communication Officer at the Yukon Employees Union and as I assumed he is very well versed in receiving correspondence at work, I cc’ed his supervisor:

Bob 

Could you confirm if this is you quoted in this CBC story please? 

Regards

Dean Skoreyko

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Nardi’s reply:

Can you please tell me who are you, who you work for, and why you have contacted my place of employment? Please understand that I do not conduct personal business on my employer’s time.

I thought that kind of strange as he is paid to be a Communications Director but at least then in my mind it semi-answered the question whether this was an ‘official’ effort backed by the union.

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I’m a conservative blogger who is trying to find out the relevant backgrounds of the people quoted in that CBC story I forwarded you. Googling my name will easily provide you with my background.

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Thank you Dean. I am at work and can’t answer your questions on work time. But I’d be happy to help you when I leave. One thing I can tell you is that my question to Mr. Leef (it was a question, not an accusation—I clearly said that in my posting) had nothing to do with my employer nor any political party. It was a constituent question pure and simple. I have cc’d this email to my home address for further reference. Feel free to contact me there.

Ok, so there is the complete correspondence between myself and Nardi as I left it for the time being while waiting for a reply from the CBC North contacts of Jennifer Geens, Elaine Look and Cheryl Kawaja to this email I sent:

Why would BC Conservative use Harper-hating Liberal at press conference?

On display Tuesday evening was a lesson on how to make a dud out of what should be a good-news political announcement.

I am still waiting to hear back from the BC Conservative brainiacs about why a newly converted BC Liberal backer (who was immediately named Deputy Chair of their Finance Committee) made such a mess out of a media event yesterday.

Inexplicably, Rick Peterson had Dan Veniez (a failed federal Liberal MP candidate) introduce him at his nomination bid who says things like this about Stephen Harper:

G+M:”Harper denies knowledge of ‘black ops’- Utter horse shit! Cons entire model is fundamentally predicated on black-ops. Always has been

Also, as there is no official nomination open, did Rick Peterson make his media-attended announcement (which revealed the very embarrassing detail that this riding (Vancouver-Quilchena) has only 14 current BC Conservative members) without the party knowledge or with their blessing?

Either way, it made them look very silly, unprofessional, woefully unprepared for an election and because federal Conservative support is so vital, I’m sure it also made many people in Ottawa and BC wonder what the heck is going on?

So much for the story about BC Con leader John Cummins saying that they are being very careful about their candidates I guess huh? (see here)

Also: For more on what Liberal Dan Veniez is all about, check out his many columns for the lunatic Leftie rag Vancouver Observer here and where he tried to sue Conservative MP John Westin here

Update: I was reminded of the Conservative’s ’09 campaign manager Guy Giorno’s slap-down in January of Veniez on Twitter

@danveniez Do you still stand by your prediction that my strategy was going to lead the CPC to defeat in the general election?

Christy Clark looking to jump to federal Liberals before being pushed out by caucus?

There is no question that Christy Clark’s days as leader of the BC Liberals are over, it’s only a matter of time and in what way it occurs and because of that, I got thinking about how Clark could try to save face after reading this note from a BC blogger who has unearthed many of her scandals:

Here is how much of a “conservative” Clark is….over the weekend I received several phone calls from federal Liberal strategists in Ottawa. These are friends I’ve had since I was there–over twenty years ago. Every single last one of them tells of how Mark Marissen, Clark’s ex-husband and others in her federal Liberal circle of influence have suggested that Christy would make a great leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. (see here)

Not that Christy Clark and her ex-husband Mark Marissen don’t probably believe that she has a shot at winning but the real benefit is that she can wriggle out without having to deal with a caucus revolt orchestrated by Kevin Falcon. This move to have her dethroned is very likely especially now that van Dongen departed leaving behind his BC Rail time-bomb (see here).

Strategically, it’s the best solution for the Liberals and their business backers who are freaking out at the prospects of a NDP government and would not only stop the bleeding to the BC Conservatives, it would probably end the hope of them winning any seats in next May’s election.

 

NDP’s leadership vote IT firm says on-line attack was “orchestrated”

Notice that the media today have made sure to use the Canadian name for the Spanish company that was so incompetent that it couldn’t stop a basic DOS attack at the NDP’s leadership vote.

Scytl Canada general manager Susan Crutchlow:

“We deeply regret the inconvenience to NDP voters caused by this malicious, massive, orchestrated attempt to thwart democracy. We are proud, however, that our robust system, which is used by many governments around the world, repelled this attack, did not crash, and completed its mission of giving all NDP members who wished to vote the opportunity to do so securely.” (see here)

The Globe’s Daniel Leblanc fails to include the fact that there were NDP members who said that they could not vote (see here) nor mentioned why the RCMP and Elections Canada hasn’t investigated.

Of course the Globe comment section is full of opposition ‘supporters’ saying it was a deliberate illegal act by the Conservatives. Funny that the Globe would allow such slander as I’d be getting a flood of lawsuit threats if I did the same.

Also: Check out the CBC Jan 13 story I ran across in which a Nova Scotia company complained about the awarding of the Halifax municipal contract to Scytl here

Christy Clark loses first MLA. How many more to come?

BC Liberal John van Dongen has just announced he is ‘crossing the floor’ to the BC Conservative Party.

From van Dongen’s House speech today:

To this day, Mr. Speaker, there are still serious unanswered questions regarding the writing-off of 6 million dollars in legal fees in the BC Rail case contrary to government policy. Questions I have been asking for a year-and-a-half, and questions the Auditor General is seeking answers to through the courts.(see here)

I had written last March that he was in conversations with the BC Conservatives to jump ships and was idiotically called a “conspiracy theorist” by the BC Con spokesperson who I believe has since been removed.

Van Dongen was very unhappy with Clark winning the Liberal leadership so it wasn’t much of a surprise that he was talking with the BC Cons and has made this move now as Christy Clark was backing another candidate to take van Dongen’s nomination away from him.

Regardless of all the animosity between Clark and van Dongen, this is a huge coup for John Cummins and the BC Cons and a devastating blow to Clark and the Liberals.

How many more will be leaving this sinking Liberal ship may be the only question now and if I was a betting man, I’d put a wager on Randy Hawes being next.