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Meili Monday – A Political Disclaimer #skndpldr

I usually do a “Music Monday” post at the start of the week. But since the SK NDP Leadership has just started, I thought it might be fun (and alliterative!) to give over a few of my Mondays in the coming weeks and months to some thoughts on the race, Ryan Meili’s campaign and other […]

Posted 17 September 2012 § Blog § Internet § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged:

Five Things That Had The Biggest Impact in the 2009 Sask NDP Leadership Race (And Five That Didn't)

I'll still thinking about a post with my thoughts on some of the things the Meili campaign could've done differently to perhaps put themselves over the top.  But until that comes clearer, I thought I'd do a post looking at things in the bigger picture.  I never get a good response when I call for […]

Posted 21 June 2009 § List § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Ten Reasons I'm Supporting Ryan Meili – #9 – He's Got Very Little Baggage

One of Dwain Lingenfelter's greatest assets is also one of his greatest weaknesses.  He's been a part of Saskatchewan's political scene from 1978 until 2000 when he moved to Calgary to become an executive with Nexen Oil.  That's given him a great deal of experience in both politics and business during the past 30 years.  […]

Posted 25 May 2009 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Ten Reasons I'm Supporting Ryan Meili – #10 – He's Soft Spoken

Back when I first started blogging regularly about the NDP leadership campaign, I had a loyal reader named Kent (who I'm 98.3% sure is Kent Lindgren who recently endorsed Dwain Lingenfelter.) At the time, Kent took issue with oh, pretty much every single thing I said (a tactic I'm increasingly seeing from Lingenfelter supporters not […]

Posted 24 May 2009 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (1) °

Referrer Madness & Pushing Buttons

With the big increase in traffic to this blog because of my writing about the NDP leadership race (sorry everybody who comes here for library & technology related stuff – less than a month till I'm back to that beat), I thought it might be interesting to see some of the search strings that are […]

Posted 13 May 2009 § Main Page ‡ Comments (1) °

Some Random Observations Around the NDP Leadership Race

Something in this CBC story caught my eye and I thought I'd share it here.  David Hale, the lawyer who's been charged with investigating WaterhenGate made this comment:“'We just need to do this for Mr. Lingenfelter; we need to do it for Ms. Higgins; we need to do it for Mr. Pedersen; and we need […]

Posted 07 May 2009 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Ryan Meili Takes *Slightly* Different Approach to First Nations Peoples Than Dwain Lingenfelter

When I first started following the NDP leadership race, I observed that there were many similarities between Ryan Meili and Barack Obama (and by extension, I saw Dwain Lingenfelter as playing the Hillary Clinton role – inevitable front-runner with name recognition and deep party ties being challenged by young upstart community organizer.)  One of the […]

Posted 06 May 2009 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Lingenfelter's Downfall?

A week ago, I did a post where I gave my thoughts on what Ryan Meili needed to do to win the NDP leadership campaign.  In that post, I observed: “If I'm being completely honest, Ryan winning on the first ballot would seem all but impossible barring some major scandal for Link…or a major endorsement […]

Posted 04 May 2009 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °