Liberal Math … Version 2.0

Some time back I had the original Liberal Math story --- so this has to become Version 2.0.  What’s with the math I know you are saying … BORING … but stick with me for a moment while we take a look at how the BC Liberal leadership race played out.

First of all when they started the leadership race, the BC Liberals said they had a membership of 35,000 – during the race they added 50,000.

85,000   Number BC Liberal members

-6,000   Cats, dogs, hockey player memberships canceled by Liberal executive

79,000   NEW total number of BC Liberal members

48,980   62% of Liberal members announced as having voted

30,020   Number of “Instant” BC Liberal members not bothering to vote

Thirty thousand and twenty members of the BC Liberal party DID NOT vote -- why is that?

Small “c” conservatives have cause for concern

Well we all know the news of what happened on Saturday on the 3^rd round vote, but don't expect that a Liberal government led by Christy Clark will be any different than the government we’ve already had under Gordon Campbell!

While promising to fundamentally change the governmental culture in Victoria, Clark (who served as a loyal MLA to former Premier Gordon Campbell), has been full of praise for her former mentor -- time and time again.  That said, Clark now has the job of putting together a cabinet from the very people she ran against, and that already sit in the BC Legislature. 

I expect we are going to see a lot of fireworks, and she is going to have an uphill battle to bring together a team from Liberal heavyweights who were not at all flattering in their comments of her during the leadership race, including Kevin Falcon who she lost to in the 3^rd round vote.    

George Abbott himself said that he was attacking Christy Clark’s policies because she was providing him with, ‘so much good material to exploit’.   “Ms. Clark has given me such a plethora of issues to work with. Whatever Christy says is fair game for debate, and that’s what I intend to do.”