A politician who indulges in "puke politics".
Many politicians will do anything to beat their opponents. This letter written to a good politician on October 6, 2003 was about the man who was running against him.
Dr. Kildip Kular Liberal MPP
Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario
Dear Sir:
First, let me congratulate you on your election as our MPP for Malton etc.
Ironically, I was going to vote for the NDP simply because I was afraid that the Liberals would end up getting a majority and a majority government is not usually in the best interests of the people.
What made me change my mind and vote for you had nothing whatever to do with your political views or those of Mr. McGuinty. It was Raminder Gill, one of your opponents who convinced me to vote for you.
As you are aware, this man had a flyer dropped off at everyone’s home in which two of the pages were dedicated towards his attempt to destroy you by suggesting that if we voted for you, we would vote for a doctor who has been taken to task by the medical profession for some wrongdoing in the past.
As far as I am concerned, the so-called wrongdoing he alleged was not so bad that you should be condemned ten years later for it. Further, as far as I am concerned, his actions are best described as sleaze. Perhaps Arnold Schwareneger said it better when his opponent Davis tried the same smear tactic. Schwarenger referred to this tactic as “puke politics”. When Gill stooped to puke politics near the election date, I realized that he left you little time to respond. That made you the underdog. Everyone feels for the underdog. The only way I could show my contempt for Gill was to write him and tell him that his tactic would backfire and that many of us would vote for the underdog---and that is exactly what I did. You ended up with my vote for the reasons I have just given you.
But at the same time, I have concerns about your party and your leader.
Many politicians have reneged on their promises. Pierre Trudeau promised us that if he was elected, he ( not unlike his opponent, Bob Stanfield ) would not bring in wage and price controls. He did. He lied. Chretien promised us that if he was elected, he would get rid of the GST sales tax. He didn’t. He too lied. These are just two reasons why I have not voted Liberal for years.
Dalton McGuinty gained lots of support when he blasted the Conservative government for not spending enough on health care and won favor with voters by promising to spend more on health. He even promised to hire 8,000 more nurses if he was elected.
His health critic in the legislature admitted however that the hiring of these nurses won’t come about until after the SARS Commission makes its recommendation---which will probably be a year from now. She even had the audacity to say, “I can’t say that bringing staffing levels up will be the first order of business.”
Well, the wooing of Ontarians is over and we got what we didn’t want, a majority government. I sincerely hope that the Liberal provincial government doesn’t let us down like the Liberal federal government did.
The more I think about politicians, the more I am convinced that the running of government should never be left to the politicians. It’s not unlike asking rookie cops to run the local cathouse. They will keep everything in order and loose money in the process.
I remain,
Yours truly
Dahn Batchelor
Dr. Kildip Kular Liberal MPP
Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario
Dear Sir:
First, let me congratulate you on your election as our MPP for Malton etc.
Ironically, I was going to vote for the NDP simply because I was afraid that the Liberals would end up getting a majority and a majority government is not usually in the best interests of the people.
What made me change my mind and vote for you had nothing whatever to do with your political views or those of Mr. McGuinty. It was Raminder Gill, one of your opponents who convinced me to vote for you.
As you are aware, this man had a flyer dropped off at everyone’s home in which two of the pages were dedicated towards his attempt to destroy you by suggesting that if we voted for you, we would vote for a doctor who has been taken to task by the medical profession for some wrongdoing in the past.
As far as I am concerned, the so-called wrongdoing he alleged was not so bad that you should be condemned ten years later for it. Further, as far as I am concerned, his actions are best described as sleaze. Perhaps Arnold Schwareneger said it better when his opponent Davis tried the same smear tactic. Schwarenger referred to this tactic as “puke politics”. When Gill stooped to puke politics near the election date, I realized that he left you little time to respond. That made you the underdog. Everyone feels for the underdog. The only way I could show my contempt for Gill was to write him and tell him that his tactic would backfire and that many of us would vote for the underdog---and that is exactly what I did. You ended up with my vote for the reasons I have just given you.
But at the same time, I have concerns about your party and your leader.
Many politicians have reneged on their promises. Pierre Trudeau promised us that if he was elected, he ( not unlike his opponent, Bob Stanfield ) would not bring in wage and price controls. He did. He lied. Chretien promised us that if he was elected, he would get rid of the GST sales tax. He didn’t. He too lied. These are just two reasons why I have not voted Liberal for years.
Dalton McGuinty gained lots of support when he blasted the Conservative government for not spending enough on health care and won favor with voters by promising to spend more on health. He even promised to hire 8,000 more nurses if he was elected.
His health critic in the legislature admitted however that the hiring of these nurses won’t come about until after the SARS Commission makes its recommendation---which will probably be a year from now. She even had the audacity to say, “I can’t say that bringing staffing levels up will be the first order of business.”
Well, the wooing of Ontarians is over and we got what we didn’t want, a majority government. I sincerely hope that the Liberal provincial government doesn’t let us down like the Liberal federal government did.
The more I think about politicians, the more I am convinced that the running of government should never be left to the politicians. It’s not unlike asking rookie cops to run the local cathouse. They will keep everything in order and loose money in the process.
I remain,
Yours truly
Dahn Batchelor
posted by Dahn Batchelor | 8:26 AM
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