BILL TIELEMAN: "say what you like about me - but try to deal with the facts"

For weeks now I have been hearing rumblings of who, and what, has been behind the turmoil.  A number of names have surfaced ... I have pretty much dismissed them all ... until recently that is.


I am NOT a conspiracy theorist, however the stench starting to rise from this is starting to get beyond what a bottle of Febreeze might be able to clear.

Now along comes Bill Tieleman with a view that obviously he has been thinking about for sometime, and which today he decided to make public.  He finished his post with the following words:

I fully expect comments and posts suggesting that I'm merely promoting the BC Conservatives to hurt the BC Liberals.

I hardly think the BC Liberals need my help - they are damaging their brand daily - from their ridiculous and changing positions on the Enbridge pipeline to bringing Chinese workers into BC to run a Chinese-owned coal mine to the HST to a host of other bad decisions.

I don't agree with John Cummins or his supporters on a whole lot of issues - but he is a straight-shooter and he has dragged the BC Conservatives out of obscurity to have a real chance of electing MLAs and re-establishing a party that was lost in the wilderness for decades.

So - say what you like about me - but try to deal with the facts here, because they are certainly pointing towards some real involvement of the BC Liberals and their supporters in sabotaging Cummins - for obvious reasons.

A few weeks back, the public face of unrest was Ben Besler and John Crocock -- now it's Allison Patton and Ariane Eckardt.  If it doesn't end soon, then I beleive there will be others who will crop up to foster more dissent.

Others who may, or may not, be getting stirred up by individuals who are behind the scenes.

The bottom line is they are causing a great deal of damage, as these news stories from just the past few days show:

Someone is pulling the strings from behind – and whoever they are – they are cowards for not showing their faces

Allison Patton (center) of the dissident group - with Christy
Clark and Kevin Falcon.  They sure look happy together

News media from TV, newspapers, and radio were filled late yesterday with the soothing calm faces of a handful of dissidents within the BC Conservative Party.

These people gratefully acknowledged the work of John Cummins, to bring the party to where it is, and then proceeded to stab him in the back by demanding he resign.

For the past few months now a group (although the members seem to flow in and out and not really have any structure) has worked to see the leadership of the party change.

There is NOTHING wrong with that -- the members voted – and they made their choice. 

The group wishing to see a leadership race undertaken was defeated in a democratic vote of the membership.  Case closed – right??  NOT!

Since the BC Conservative Party AGM in Langley concluded, a number of people have taken it upon themselves to force the party into a leadership race. 

All that aside, the Executive and Board of the BC Conservative party has endeavored to work with members of the group to try and come to a resolution.  Even yesterday Al Siebring, along with two others, sat down face to face with representatives from the dissident group – they met until mid-afternoon.

And the results of that meeting?  Here they are from the mouth of BC Conservative Party president Al Siebring: