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In article <schreck.394.00740CD8@wimsey.com>,
schreck@wimsey.com (David Schreck) wrote:
> Stupich was in that class in the early 70s, fading in the early 80s and 
> remembered as someone who once was by the early 90s.

Whoa! This is news - I was under the impression that Stupich was still 
remembered fondly and nostalgically by New Democrats (and a welcome guest at 
conventions) in a similar manner to the way someone like say Bob Bonner or 
Phil Gaglardi (despite his misdeeds which caused them at least as much grief 
as Stupich has the NDP) was regarded by the late Socreds.

> Obviously, I fear you are correct although I also  believe that it would be 
> very unfortunate for public policy to allow the kinds of things that Campbell 
> is promising based not on a debate of policy but on a distortion of the past.

Yup - the CKNW hotliners regularly run straw polls and if there's ONE thing 
that's clear it's that there are a LOT of people out there who will be holding 
their noses and voting one way or the other.

> It might be more accurate to say that that's not what the Campbell Liberals 
> want folks to remember now.  I have more faith that people do not confuse 
> mountains and molehills.

Of course they won't - they're the Opposition.  Why exactly do you find this 
surprising? :)

>>I've recently gone back and re-read 'A Better Way for British Columbia 1991'- 
> 
> The copy I sent you :-)

Yup - and a belated thanks.  I >do< find Ken Georghetti's position in the 
party interesting in light of that document.  The NDP collectively still seems 
to believe that 'working people' are strictly found in companies with over 500 
employees - in stark contrast to the statistics.  The classic 
labour/management paradigm certainly makes sense in that sector but I do think 
it's out of touch in companies under 25 employees.

> Thank you.  My colleagues, including the Premier, are angry and want a change. 
>  He has been handed a bag of sh.. which is not his fault.

Of COURSE it's his fault - he's the Premier.  If the buck doesn't stop with 
Harcourt, where exactly DOES the buck stop?