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Originally Posted by Monahammer
There is another problem that we're all not really talking about, but has anyone else taken a peak under the hood of the NDP party lately? Something is seriously wrong over there. Between the volunteer upsets and some very strange dealings at the riding association level... I have heard troubling things from people I considered long time supporters. Bilous choosing to leave is also very strange.
It has me more concerned about the the future.
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care to share any of this with us for those of us not in the know?
as for Brian Jean, and the others. They are playing the Stelmach game. trying to be being the person who is the 2nd and 3rd choice on ballots so they can sneak in that way. They're not going to outdo Smith on right wing looney, so they're trying to play smarter.
CBC Opinion piece mentioned this the other day.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...nton-1.6567648
But the dynamics behind it are all about that preferential ballot. Smith and Toews know they won't be relying on each other for support — and thus are free to bash each other. And bash each other they have been doing non-stop. The animosity is so great that Toews has refused to say if he'll run again if he loses the race.
But they are careful about not bashing other candidates, for fear of alienating their supporters. In a preferential ballot, it's not just members' first choice that counts, but their second or third or fourth, etc.
That's pretty much how Ed Stelmach won the Progressive Conservative leadership race in 2006. He won by being the nice guy — everybody's second choice.
In this race, at least three candidates — Sawhney, Jean and Rebecca Schulz — want to be the new Ed Stelmach.
They know they're not the frontrunners and, like Stelmach, are hoping to stay in the count long enough to pick up support from candidates who are forced from the race.