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A little madness in the Spring; is whole-
some even for the King.
—Emily Dickinson

he vernal equinox has come,

friends, and with it, so too,

change. To paraphrase George
Costanza’s impassioned plea for a Sprin
wedding: birds chirping, flowers bloom-
ing, all that crap. With a May 17
provincial-election date fast approaching,
there’s a lot of crap we need to cover.
Spring cleaning is coming to the capital
and you need to decide which dust bun
nies your push brooms are going t
bounce. Will the NDP’s Carol James b
your rebound lover after a rocky relation
ship with the Liberals’ Gordon Campbell:
Or is Campbell the sugar-daddy rock yo
want to bank your future on rather tha
some fuzzy dumpling with no politica
experience? How about Adriane Carr’s
Green Party? To quote The Simpsons alie
Kang: “Go ahead, throw your vote away’
(insert villainous laughter here).

With all these mixed metaphors, clut
tered quotes, and grammatical gibberish
you must be mightily confused—perhap
even turned off. Well, excellent! That’
exactly what election campaigns ar
meant to be, and that’s exactly while you’|
need this brief primer on...Why Yo
Shouldn’t Vote.

Campbell and the
BC liberals

Boooooo! It may be a reflex action to bo
ol Gordo: the most hated BC politicia
since the last guy and the guy before tha
It’s been nearly two decades since BCe
actually voted for someone rather tha
against him; that must be why Gord
seems so smugly oblivious to the vet
omous hatred that exists for him.
Gordo is a liar and a hypocrite. Soun
harsh? Remember the promise to nev
sell off a public-sector business? BC R:
was sold shortly after making that pron
ise, followed by the breaking up of B
Hydro and attempts to privatize t
Coquihalla and parts of the health secte
Remember the downfall of Glen Cla
for getting a deck put in by some shac
dude from the world’s greatest strip clu
the NBI? Gordo was relentless in h
attacks on Clark for his improprieti
while in office, yet when Gordo’s inf
mously smirking (and still drunk) m

May 11/2005