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����� Here’s an odd twist. Should beancounter
Jamie Baillie not win the leadership, reliable
sources tell me Jamie is being pressured to
run for Halifax mayor’s chair in 2012. Or before
then, should current mayor, Peter Kelly,
move on, say, win the leadership of the certain
provincial party. Talk about trading
places.
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����� Meantime in Big Becky Kent’s world or
the ol’ dark but exciting
BBK World, as I like to
call it, once in awhile her
name comes up here at
the Bunker.
Every couple of months
or so, I or one of my better
informed colleagues,
will take an angry call from
some no-good evil-doer
Becky Kent
from Eastern Passage,
who wants to drone on
about not being able to get in touch with Big
Becky Kent, the alleged MLA for the area.
THE SECRET
BEHIND THE
CARAMILK BAR
BY IRA VEAL
IF YOU’RE CURIOUS WHY QUEENS MLA
VICKI CONRAD WAVED HER MAGIC WAND
AND TURNED THE N-DIPPER LOGO IN HER
ADS INTO THE NOVA SCOTIA CREST, HERE’S
THE SCOOP, JACKSON.
The recent change ushers in a new era for
Vic’s business card-sized, taxpayer-funded
adverts in the Queens County Advance. But
before my Liverpudlian readers reach for
their heart meds, let me assure y’all that Vicki’s
mug shot remains prominently featured, her
lovely face looming over the constituency contact
info fine print, like a scene from Attack
Of The 50 Foot Woman.
The real question, the deep abiding mystery
here, is why did Vicki’s partisan promotions
in the local fishwrapper suddenly transform
into a patriotic display for Canada’s
Ocean Province?
Could it possibly coincide with a constituent
raising a stink, over their MLA’s gall to
advertise her political party with taxpayer
dough? Um, methinks if you said, “What is
yes,” Alex Trebek would respond, “Correct.”
I know. I know, Take about inconsequential
nit-picking. So you can’t reach your MLA, or
she doesn’t return you call. So, your MLA really
isn’t into you? Too bad, I say, what’s the
big deal?
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����� Elsewhere, but still in the dark but exciting
BBK World, I also hear that former Eastern
Passage MLA, the cleverly, diplomatically disguised
Kevin Deveaux, 43, may be hankering
to get back into provincial politics. Er, um,
now that the N-Dippers have a taste of political
power.
Deaveaux, who in 2000 ran for the N-Dipper
leadership and lost to abject political failure
Helen MacDonald (how would you like to
have that on your resume???) has rebounded
quite well.
He, of course, is a now a man of the world,
an international man of mystery, and a man,
like local sportscaster Alex J. Walling who
can boast his very own Wikipedia entry. Like,
how cool is that?
Here you can read all about Kevin
MLAs get a ginormous bag of loot for constituency
office expenses, not unlike the sack
Santa hauls onto his sleigh on Christmas Eve
to carry toys for all the world’s children. Out
of this bottomless supply comes the funds for
local media ads.
It is not hard to imagine a rezzie spying Vic’s
ad and hitting the roof, as its NDP logo leapt
off the page to strike them like an arrow in the
forehead. It is reasonable to assume this mystery
armchair critic does not belong to the NDP
fold.
“We did receive a concern in the office,”
Vicki admits, and note the poli-speak of “concern,”
a softer and more harmless way of saying
“complaint,” a word that is likely closer to
the truth. But Vic, ministerial assistant to
Transportation minnie Bill Estrabrooks,
assures me the great switcheroo was planned
before her office fielded any complaint, er,
...
Deaveaux’s early childhood, as the youngest
of five children ... Zzzzzzz ... to his graduation
from law school to his election to the House
of Assembly, to his not fulfilling his mandate
with the people of Eastern Passage, and turning
his back on the voters to accept a United
Nations job in Commie Vietnam in 2007.
Funny, he doesn’t mention Helen MacDonald,
though.
Noble, bright, boy wonder Kevin brings us
up to date with his 2008 very important UN
posting in New York City. Or, has that boy
wonder appointment recently wrapped up?
Who cares? Really.
But not to be out done, Becky Kent, too, has
her own Wikipedia page. But it really doesn’t
say much, and leaves out entirely the fact that
she also, in her spare time (which she would
appear to have plenty of) has been know to
dabble in the selling of kitchenware.
So there you have it, folks, the story of Ms.
Lazy Arse vs. Mr. Fat Head. Should be one
hell of a nomination battle if and when it does
finally come about.
concern. (What, does she have Nostradamus
on staff? — ed.)
While a missive to the Frankland Bunker
suggested that her party-plugs contravene
Speaker’s Office rules, Vicki assures me
under new guidelines passed a couple years
back, her politicized ads pass muster.
“I have been running the ads for well over a
year,” she explains.
The all-party Internal Economy Board did
tweak its guidelines, legislative clerk Rod
MacArthur confirms, and says a new review
of MLA claimable expenses is underway by
Tory dinosaur Art Donahoe (Frank 576).
As Rod sensibly observes, if MLAs “don’t
claim for reimbursement, they could put any
sort of advertising they wanted.”
And now you know, the rest of the story...
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