Monday, February 04, 2008

Angry Saskatchewan Liberals Likely to Vote Conservative

Story here. h/t: NationalNewswatch.com

Dissident Liberal Party members in the Saskatchewan riding of Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River, who oppose the appointment of Joan Beatty as the Liberal candidate there, will not run their own candidate against her but are seriously contemplating voting for the Conservative Party in the March 17 byelection, they say.

(...)I do not support what the leader is doing. I think it´s wrong and the majority of the people in Northern Saskatchewan feel the same way. As a result of that, I believe a lot of the people are going to be voting other parties and I can´t say they´re going to vote NDP or Tory. Right now, they´re leaning towards the Tories(...)

"What this is about is the process. We´ve been denied a process. (...) And then all of a sudden, in one sweep of the pen they [Mr. Dion] take away our right again."