The newest political flashpoint in Saskatchewan politics is a comic posted this week on the NDP’s Facebook page depicting Premier Brad Wall as a masked thief making off with a sack of loot from the Progressive Conservative trust fund.
The Saskatchewan Party — which has consistently denied any designs on the estimated $2.9 million fund as it fights a lawsuit brought by a renascent PC party — demanded that the cartoon be pulled and the NDP apologize.
Opposition house leader Kevin Yates was making no apologies, however, but he did note that NDP Leader Dwain Lingenfelter had not seen or signed off on the comic.
When asked about it later in the week, Lingenfelter — who apologized this spring for calling Wall “the little thief from Swift Current” in the legislature — wouldn’t comment and declined when a reporter asked him if he wanted to look at it.
“Not really because I’m doing this, but what I will say is our campaign manager will comment on anything related to politics and elections,” he said at a news conference on the NDP’s potash policy. (Lingenfelter also later declined to speak to the Notebook about the comic.)
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Wall, meanwhile, when asked about the comic said “he had come to expect that from Mr. Lingenfelter’s version of the NDP, unfortunately.”
He also suggested the NDP and Lingenfelter should batten down the hatches for a new Sask. Party advertising campaign.
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“We are going to also continue to provide some reality messaging and advertising around our opposition, but, you know, it will be based on quotes that they have said and their record, quotes from him and their record in government.”
In January, the Sask. Party launched a television advertising campaign blasting Lingenfelter for comments about the provincial economy and for calling Premier Brad Wall a “loser.”
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The official resignation of former Sask. Party MLA Serge LeClerc from his Saskatoon Northwest seat this week clears the way for a byelection to be held before the Oct. 27 return of the legislature.
The seat has been a strong one for the Sask. Party and their new high-profile candidate Gordon Wyant would seem to have a good shot at holding it. The city councillor would also appear to have a potential shot at a cabinet seat if he won, especially as he would be one of only three lawyers in caucus.
But Wall — whose late June shuffle put together the cabinet that is supposed to take the government into the 2011 election — recently said there’s no cabinet spot being planned for Wyant.
“I guess anything’s possible. I wouldn’t rule out anything, but you know I’m not considering altering what I said at the time of the last shuffle.”
Of course, Wall made those comments before having to shuffle Don Morgan out of the liquor and gaming portfolio because he was in breach of legislation forbidding SLGA board members from having any ownership stake in establishments with VLTs or selling liquor.
(Morgan owns a 1.5 per cent stake in a company that owns two Saskatoon hotels with lounges.)
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