On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Monday, September 23, 2002
Could the Canadian Alliance have traded one leader with a subsceptibility to foot-in-mouth disease for another? It seems so. Eric Duhaime, who was press secretary to former leader Stockwell Day, has called for an apology after Harper referred to Alliance staffers who came over from other parties as "castoffs, retreads and traitors."
This seems a little divisive; a lot of Alliance staffers came over from other parties, including strategist Rick Anderson, a former Liberal who played a large part in the old Reform Party's growth in the 1990s.
Mr. Harper political staffers in a speech that he would hire people into his office from the ranks of long-time Alliance and Reform supporters, rather than "castoffs, retreads and traitors" from other parties.
"By attacking us, he's also attacking all the voters that came from other parties" in the 2000 election, said one staffer who started out working for another party.
Harper's loose lips have also put him in trouble this month when he accused the polling firm Ipsos-Reid of being biased towards the Liberals, saying that "Liberal pollsters get Liberal results." There's a problem with Harper's accusation -- Ipsos isn't the Liberals' pollster; it's Michael Marzolini of Pollara. Ipsos threatened to sue Harper, claiming that he was damaging Ipsos' reputation.
Harper retracted his statement earlier this week.
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