HAS FINALLY BLOWN IT.
The We Know-Noth Thinks are of course our current Premier Kathleen Wynne and her esteemed predecessor, the Honourable Dolton McGunity.
Both came out last week to announce … once again … just that .. we know noth-think. This was in response to the OPP investigation that alleges emails in the Premiers’ Office were improperly destroyed between the period of February 6, and March 20, 2013. The report also alleges that the instigators, were none other than McGuinty’s chief of staff David Livingston and a hired techy … Peter Faist.
But McGuinty said last week that he knew absolutely nothing of this, as did Wynne, despite the fact that she became Leader of the Liberal Party on January 26, 2013 and was then sworn in as Premier on February 13, 2013.
And just today we learn that the above mentioned Peter Faist, was on the Liberal Government pay rolls and more recently on the Liberal Party rolls until --- are you ready, just this past weekend, when his services were unceremoniously terminated.
It begs one’s credulity to believe that either or both principals knew noth-think as Sgt. Schultz would have appropriately said.
And we cannot even say that this was an isolated event – indeed the number of scams, missteps and out right wastages of money committed by Ontario’s Liberal Government goes back over its 10 years in office and for every one of them – Wynne was front and centre in the Legislature. There are simply too many such boondoggles to list, but even if I did, the fact that anyone would not be up to speed on most of them defies the imagination.
So that’s the We Know Noth-Thinks part of this Blog.
The other Aspect is, I believe, even more important.
Premier Wynne has given Tory Leader, Tim Hudak, a gift.
She has threatened to sue him for libel and guess why, because Hudak had the temerity to say that she was likely aware of the email shenanigans going on in her and in her predecessor’s office.
Just Imagine.
What she has inadvertently done though is to ensure that this issue remains front and centre in the media and before the public until the next election.
Politicians are taught early on how to deal with the Media and one of the first lessons is to never repeat a negative thrown at them.
Permit me to give you an example.
If your opponent calls you a ‘dolt’ you do not reply be saying you are ‘not a dolt’ since that merely reinforces the negative word in the mind of the listener.
So in Wynne’s case, she issued a public letter threatening a law suit which restated, word for word - the words she found to be so libellous.
Thank you again Ms. Wynne.
The classic example of this mistake of course was made by the late President Richard Nixon. He was being accused of being a ‘crook’ so what did he do? He announced to millions that “I am not a crook” and from there on, anytime his name was mentioned – his own words came negatively to mind.
And even more damaging, with her law suit antics, Wynne has inadvertently propped up a heretofore lacklustre Tory Leader; Hudak now looks like a hero. Only Wynne could do that. From now on the guy will be known as the man who stood up to her mean-spirited threat. And there is strength in that.
From all of this, I believe, Wynne has just inserted the final nail into her election coffin.
It will take the Dipper Leader – Andrea Horwath to decide when that is likely to occur. And she continues to be on record as saying she will not vote against the Grits until she is satisfied there is enough evidence against them to do so.
I bet there are alot of guys currently serving time who would loved to have had ‘impossible to convince Andrea Horwath’ on their Jury.
Or maybe, dear Kathleen will take a walk in the snow like so many before her?
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
