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To: ralfph who wrote (430)	11/25/2000 7:59:56 PM
From: teevee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37808

ralf, I might vote for the Liberals in a federal election, but I have to vote ND provincially. What our past premier demonstrated is that an election can be bought. Glen Clarke promised all teachers, hospital and government workers a raise, retro-active over the previous 4 years and it only cost about $20,000 per vote. Now with the price of natural gas where it is, the money flowing into Victoria has broken all records. Our new premier now has money to burn and can buy all the votes needed just like his mentor Glen Clarke did. I smell a provincial election call for the spring and another 4 more years of ND government. Yahoo.

To: ralfph who wrote (430)	11/25/2000 8:17:41 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37808

...the most hated former prime minister... Ever wonder why this man is unpopular? The more I look at his record, the more I realize that his image had been tarnished, not so much by anything he had done, but by Liberal lies repeated so loudly and often that Canadians' ability to discern truth from fiction had finally worn down to the point that many began repeating the nonsense, eventually entrenching this fiction as one of the many stories woven into our current national fabric. (Didn't he win his suit over some of the fictions?) Cheers, PW. P.S. Interestingly, the Globe & Mail published income levels correlated to party support. I was surprised to learn that the NDP receive support from the below $20,000 and above $100,000 income groups. The first provided no shock, but the second sure does. (Maybe it's union bosses?) Liberals $60,000 to $80,000 Alliance $50,000 to $80,000 Tories -- Sorry, I can't remember, but it's in Today's (Sat) paper.