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In article <9pwhw8UdGjKD083yn@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca> lcraver@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Lyle Craver) writes:

>David, it's not as if the principals in the NCHS are/were yahoos operating on 
>the edge of your party - Stupich and his crew are some of the most highly 
>respected individuals in the New Democratic Party - at LEAST as prominent as 
>Messrs Davis, Van der Zalm and the others among the Socreds.

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.

>No matter who leads the New Democrats into the next election they'll have a 
>horrendous job trying to persuade the province that these things don't matter 
>- what sunk Mulroney far more than anything else was that he specifically 
>campaigned against cleaning up the Trudeau cesspool ... and then did likewise.

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.

>Like any other party in power, you've done some good, you've done some evil 
>(and the partisans on each side will debate the proportion of each) - but 
>that's not what folks will remember - not now.

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.

>I've recently gone back and re-read 'A Better Way for British Columbia 1991' - 

The copy I sent you :-)

>fascinating reading particularly on the first 3 points dealing with MLA 
>conduct ... it's no wonder the majority of New Democrats are mightily p***ed 
>off at the few. Glad to see you're one of the p***ed off for a change.

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.

--David
David_Schreck@mindlink.bc.ca   or   Schreck@Wimsey.com
  res 984-8344 NVof 986-2254 VicOf 356-3003
(MLA - North Vancouver Lonsdale)  "Compare between shared ideals but
                                  choose between real alternatives"