On the morning of March 8th, I received a phone call from the NDP office in Ottawa. The party staffer at the other end of the line politely informed me that the NDP was rescinding its approval for me to seek a party nomination to run in the upcoming federal election….
The party, it was explained, had taken exception to comments I had made on my personal Facebook page, in particular one in which I exhorted New Democrats to keep supporting our most viable candidate for the Toronto mayor’s chair in the wake of a sex scandal…
I said, in full, ‘Stuart Parker isn’t a fan of Giambrone’s today but can’t believe all the outraged jumping ship. NDPers not wishing to be sullied with our mayoral candidate have had little problem while our party has denied welfare to refugees and interprovincial migrants, broken strikes, shot at Indians, invoked the Notwithstanding Clause, supported NAFTA and otherwise sold out social democracy in Canada. But of all the things to quit the team over…’
” My old playschool classmate and friend Stuart Parker in this article for the Georgia Straight. Follow the link to read his comments about the NDP tactics being the antithesis to the highly-successful Obama social media strategy. They are bang-on, and highly ironic given the huge crush that party has on the American president. Man, this sure reflects poorly on the brainiacs running the NDP.