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Originally Posted by Delgar
Call me petty too, but I think there is something going on here. Consider the language of her own message after the gaffe:
"The holiday message published under my name was not one that I wrote. Neither my staff nor I submitted the newsletter update that ran under my name, nor were we given a proof to approve. All I can assume is that it is a mistake on the publisher’s end. My staff was unable to reach anyone today. On Monday we will be requesting a retraction from the publisher."
This is what I find odd:
-"was not one that I wrote"-- makes me think she didn't write one. Otherwise it would say, "was not the one I wrote"
-"Neither my staff or I submitted the newsletter update..." -- makes me think they didn't submit anything, otherwise they would have said they submitted another one
-"All I can assume is that it is a mistake on the publishers end." -- makes me think, they submitted nothing, based on the above two quotes, so the publisher put something in so she didn't say... nothing.
-"All I can assume" -- she doesn't even know if or what she or her staff submitted, if anything. Lazy, no diligence to say what she did if anything.
-That there no mention of whether she actually wrote anything and submitted it suggests she wrote nothing.
The publisher was paid to do these newsletters, they have an incentive to please the political party hiring them and will take the fall on this. The Drever language was very careful however to not suggest the publisher failed to publish something she wrote.
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I think you are reading a little too much into her facebook post.
Within a constituency, there are different publishers that publish the newsletters for each community. Mind's Design (the publisher who admitted to the mistake) would have received the letter from Brandy Payne (the MLA for Acadia who's message showed under Drever's) for some of the communities in her constituency. They would have had that template in their system and it is very likely that they simply mistakenly printed Deborah Drever's name on top.