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Re: Ready for an NDP/Green Alliance?

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From: editor, BC Free Press
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00
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Good points. But it looks like the NDP may be enlisting their buddies in the
environment lobby groups to get the Greens under control. Is it just a
coincidence that both parties have cleaned house within the past month? Read
about it in the BC Free Press - Green Party and NDP Clean House in Lock-Step
at http://www.bcfreepress.bc.ca.

T.J. Senko <tjsenko@home.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> editor wrote:
> >
> > Can BC survive an NDP/Green alliance? Read about it in the BC Free Press
at
> > http://www.bcfreepress.bc.ca.
>
> After reading this and a small article in my local newspaper, where a
> member of the Green Party seems to have great faith in that an NDP/Green
> alliance will lead to victories in many ways for both parties, I have to
> question the intelligence of any of the people involved in this scheme.
>
> If I was, God forbid, a member of the green party, the last thing I
> would be looking for is a ride on a dying horse. If those clowns think
> that they can jockey on the backs of a party that is in such shambles as
> the NDP, you have to wonder if they aren't just a couple of marachino
> cherries short of a fruit cake.
>
> In so far as the NDP is concerned, they may be a leftist government in
> theory. But to ally themselves with people who are just shy of
> communists and seem to believe that we should all wear hemp Fruit of the
> Looms and start to erode an already weak economy, well, that's the last
> thing I'd want as the NDP. Especially if I was trying to salvage some
> form of dignity as I was being ungraciuosly ushered out the door of
> provincial politics.
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