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 […]
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Water(hen) Gate – 10 BIG Problems with the False Lingenfelter Memberships
Just trying to summarize points I'm seeing all over the place about Link's Water(hen)Gate scandal (kudos to KS on Facebook for the name) – on blogs, on CBC news stories and other wire stories from across Canada among various other sources. This is getting to be a pretty big scandal and if the NDP make […]
Music Monday – "Here, Is Where I Feel It" (Ryan Meili Tribute Video)
This is a video montage I made about the Ryan Meili campaign, set to “Canadian Skye” by Spirit of the West…
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 […]
Random Thoughts from the 2009 Sask Library Association Conference
Just got back from Saskatoon after a few days there for a demo of the new SILS software and then the SLA conference. I started doing a long narrative entry to sum up the week but that's not happening so here's some “I'm too tired to think” random highlights…1. My presentation went well and the […]
Armchair Quarterbacking the Ryan Meili Campaign
Accidental Jurist has an excellent analysis of the campaigns so far of each candidate in the provincial NDP leadership race – how they got into the race, what they've done so far, the strategies they'll need to be successful now that the membership deadline has passed and the campaign's entered its final phase. Lingenfelter – […]
Going to the Candidates' Debate Part Deux: Bloggers Collide!
Shea and I managed to wrangle a babysitter (thanks dad!) so were both able to attend the final NDP leadership debate forum tonight.The Accidental Jurist and I ended up sitting next to each other and when I introduced Shea to him, I explained, “he's the guy who puts thought into his posts, fact-checks and keeps […]
More on Donations to Saskatchewan NDP Leadership Candidates
As a follow-up to my post about the list of donors who've given more than $250 to each of the four NDP leadership candidates, I'd like to point out that The Accidental Jurist has done some investigative journalism (at least someone is – thanks for nothing MSM!) into the background of each candidates' major donors […]
Friday Fun Link – Separated At Birth? (April 17, 2009)
Serendipity can be a wonderful thing. Every morning, I meet for a brief staff meeting with my colleagues in my unit at the library. Since the office where we meet is right by the DVD collection, I usually take a moment to peruse the day's offerings. Today, I happened upon a copy of “Prairie Giant: […]
Ryan Meili is Money Baby!
The NDP has released the names of everyone who has donated over $250 to one of the leadership candidates so far and I have to say, even as a Ryan Meili supporter, I was surprised to see that, when you look at the donations from individuals, Ryan has raised nearly as much as Lingenfelter – […]