B.C. Liberals “standing tall” in by-elections, spokesperson says

by Carlito Pablo on Feb 3, 2012 at 11:15 am
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Premier Christy Clark will speak at the party’s nomination meeting for Chilliwack-Hope.
Stephen Hui

They’re hemmed in from the left by the NDP and from the right by the B.C. Conservatives. And their poll numbers have gone to the sewers.

But according to B.C. Liberal Party spokesperson Jehnifer Benoit, the ruling party is “standing tall” in the two by-elections this year.

Benoit claimed the B.C. Conservatives are not even a factor really, even in Chilliwack-Hope, where conservative voters hold sway.

“We have long held that the Chilliwack-Hope will be a two way between the B.C. Liberals and the NDP,” Benoit told the Straight in a phone interview on February 1.

Premier Christy Clark will speak at the party’s nomination meeting for Chilliwack-Hope on Saturday (February 4) at 10 a.m. at the Coast Chilliwack Hotel (45920 First Avenue). Laurie Throness, a former chief-of-staff to Conservative MP Chuck Strahl, will be acclaimed as the candidate.

“This election will be fought on the economy, creating jobs, sound management of taxpayers money, and we believe voters will side with us on those issues over the NDP,” Benoit said.

Benoit disagreed that the by-election in Port Moody-Coquitlam will be a walk in the park for the NDP. New Democrats are running former Port Moody mayor Joe Trasolini.

“In Port Moody-Coquitlam, the NDP is running a career politician who has worn out his welcome,” Benoit said.

B.C. Liberals will choose their candidate for Port Moody-Coquitlam on February 17.

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Barney Fife
Feb 3, 2012 at 11:59 am
Christy, maybe you should go and get your Canucks' jersey and blow-horn out of the closet.
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RonS
Feb 3, 2012 at 1:43 pm
"Standing Tall". Does that mean they can be flushed down the toilet easier? That's how I read it.
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glen p robbins
Feb 3, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Whistling in the dark. Lizards all around you.
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tebo
Feb 3, 2012 at 4:29 pm
starting to look for a job in Ontario and maybe the prairies. Cant stomach the end result of an NDP majority govt here.
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GOT
Feb 3, 2012 at 8:30 pm
so...what's the opposite of 'standing tall'? Hmmm....sitting short? I think so, and that's exactly what the Libs are afraid of in the Legislature. Sitting short twenty or thirty seats, to be exact, starting with these two.

ps can we find another picture of Christy please, if we have to see her in the media? Preferably without the Minnie Mouse cartoon eyes and the pointy finger thing.
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Gerry
Feb 4, 2012 at 9:49 am
Look at the Liberal record. In the past decade we have slipped in ecomic comparisons to the rest of Canada. Those that claim the BC Liberals are great managers of the economy are just drinking Liberal kool aid. Clearly their tax cuts to corporations, privatization mentality and screwing the middle class and poor with huge increases in user fees, and price hikes isn't helping our economy. It is time to bring in a new government.
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GOT
Feb 4, 2012 at 11:08 am
@ Gerry...right on! and look at the stuff that REALLY pisses of voters, such as pipelines through BC to get yet more Canadian resources to the coast by the shortest, fastest route possible so OTHER people can turn them into real money and then we buy their products back for twenty times the price! What is it that these government turkeys don't get about value-added industries? KEEP the fucking oil and wood and everything else HERE, process it HERE, manufacture products HERE. You want to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs? Then quit sending all our jobs to some other country!!
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Arthur Vandelay
Feb 4, 2012 at 12:02 pm
@Gerry - Perhaps you are right, it may be time for a change (even if the middle class is really getting screwed more by the Chinese government rather than their own) but I just hope you are not recommending bringing in a guy that was instrumental in pooching everything for the decade before the current administration.
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james blatchford
Feb 4, 2012 at 4:52 pm
BC Liberals will be standing tall?!.....I thought Bagdad Bob had retired?
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Conservative Dan
Feb 6, 2012 at 7:17 pm
I'm a true blue Conservative from the Fraser Valley, and I can't believe the BCLiberals are running another Ottawa insider.

This Laurie Throness guy has probably spent more time skating on the Rideau Canal with the Ottawa elite than he has on the Vedder River.
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morgus
Feb 7, 2012 at 7:26 pm
I am a dirty left anarchist Conservative Dan but I can believe they are running an Ottawa insider because those found on the Vedder River and Fraser valley in general have more in common with the fish than people
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Jim Van Rassel
Feb 8, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Talking with Glen about this poll and I have come to the conclusion that the residence of Port Moody/Coquitlam have gone to their 'De-facto', Federal equivalent the Conservatives, and have, resoundingly, bailed on the BC Liberals. Joe, the NDP free-loader, was able to take some of the crumbs with him to the NDP, whose numbers would be no higher then the popular vote they achieved back in 1996, losing to Christy Clark. It's pay back time, boys and girls. When this is over, everyone is going to be covered in political blood staining the future for the BC Liberal and the NDP while not deliberately providing a transfusion for the Conservative Party of BC/ Canada.
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Coquitlam BC
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David W Glavin
Feb 13, 2012 at 2:50 pm

I have got to admit that this current arrogant liberal government doesn,t
seem to want to admit that its lied about the budget that debt and also
as much as i would like to say what else they are good at but zero.
Shame on the liberals to say that this province has been aming at anything when the liberal government has done nothing but provided the
province of BC With 12 yrs of child poverty in a straight row. Well congrats liberals you are going to get the boot in the next provincial
election because heres the score. BC NDP 85 BC Liberals 0.
Thank you
David W Glavin
Burnaby BC
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What they really mean
Feb 14, 2012 at 7:31 am
Is the BC Liberals don't stand a chance in the next election and upjuck Tebo will also not be missed.
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