Never know what you might find there.... like 3 real shames (oohhh, cryptic foreshadow. I love blogging, eh?)
Case in point:
Dr. Gerrard laid down a curious challenge on September 2nd in his 'Open Government' Blog posting. Check this:
"I am writing this note on my blog as part of my effort to increase transparency in government. I believe this is important. I challenge the other party leaders to write a similar daily blog in order to have improve transparency and openness in government in Manitoba."
Openness and transparency in Government? Blogging?? Daily???
What's next, televised thumb wrestling in the Leg?
Nothing is scarier to the PC and NDP parties that having unfiltered, unvetted, unscripted, unauthorized, unspun text floating up from the depths of their respective leader's minds. Hey, this ain't no pro-Lib blanket statement. Check my math:
Greg and the NDP
The NDP have their eye on sweet 16. The only thing that could possibly stop them: the truth about what they say vs. what they do. It takes a truckload of spin to mist the prying eyes of the electorate sufficiently to hide their awful track record. If Winnipeg ever wakes up and smells the real NDP coffee, then trouble could start a-brewin' for the Kings and Queens in Orange.
(Don't worry, Orange Rod. Absolute power corrupts absolutely all over the world. It just happens.)
A 'Live with Greg' Blog means by-passing the checks and processes and sign-offs and editing that the NDP must have in place to muddy the water through which we view their performance. Live Greg! would cause at least two strokes and 10 migraines a day. We the Tax Payers would be stuck with the bill (well... to be fair, the 'Have' provinces would foot 1/2 of it, but still....)
Will not fly. Ever. And that is the first true shame found lying between the lines of Gerrard's challenge.
Here is the second:
Hugh and the PC's
I'm big on Hugh.tv
The PC's are not.
Hugh basically slams summer students as stoopid in a live CJOB debate. Hugh then says, 'well, heck, I was a summer student....' as if that makes it all ok. (Dude... keep talking. Its pure gold.)
Hugh's public blunders are complex like fine wines, with hints and subtleties lying beneath rich pallets of colorful, aromatic, intoxicating liquid. The hits flow from his lips like champagne flows from the popped cork. Its a sweet, sticky mess gushing and bubbling forth. (...right Blue Rod? I do not envy you such clean-up duty, sir. Sympathy.)
The PC's do not want that cork to pop every morning. I sure do, but they don't.
A damned shame, and that's number 2.
Jon and the Liberals
Now this gets interesting.
Jon already Blogs. Daily Posts? Sometimes more than one per day, sometimes less. It depends.
How??
Don't his secret supporters get nervous? Don't they worry that their hidden agenda will slip out between his lines and so expose their shenanigans? Don't loose lips sink the ships hiding in the political mist?
Big business fears Hugh.tv, I think. I think the Friends of the Kings and Queens in Orange thank their lucky stars that most transactions and reports never make it to the public. They can't have bred crumbs leading to the scene lying in a Greg Live! blog record. So... why aren't the secret supporters of the Big Red Machine putting the gag order down on Gerrard's darn-near-daily blog posts?
Hmmm...
Hmmm....
What does this challenge really say, boys and girls?
Informing the critical mind is like adding catalyst to an inoculate. Protects that much better.
A Leader's daily blog is information straight from the top (considering it is authentic, Ms. Orange. And only then, ok?) Add that to your critical mind. Then think about your government.
Q: Keystone Brethren, if you don't get a daily dose of straight-up leader thoughts post-2011 election, then what will you be getting?
Answer: Shame number 3.
I really don't want that for us. And so I blog....
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