Friday, February 15, 2008

We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia

Well it sure has been an intense week here in St. John's as the Premier finally stepped in to decisively state that there's no real problem with Andy Wells keeping his job as mayor and taking the job of chair of th-

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Well it sure has been an intense week here in St. John's as the Premier finally stepped in to decisively state that Andy Wells can't keep both his job as mayor of St. John's and the job of chair of the PUB and that it has to be one or the other.

It's very refreshing to see a reminder of the proud, strong and determined will of the Williams Administration every once in a while; as a single-issue voter who was wowed entirely on the Premier's uncompromising stance against Prime Minister Stephen Hitler, no matter how detrimental to provincial-federal relations that may have been, I am pleased to see that the man I helped give a Smallwood-esque mandate will not crack in the face of public pressure or otherwise waffle on his stances.

I mean, if he had, someone in the media would have called him on it, right?

...right?

2 comments:

Mark said...

You're back!!! And not a moment too soon. Running for mayor??

R. Raleigh said...

Yeah, unfortunately my line of work isn't always great for blogging...but I do what I can!

Also I'd love to run for mayor but feel that it would be too intense for most people to handle - that and after eleven years it might be nice for St. John's to have a mayor who takes their job seriously, at least for a little while.