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Originally Posted by bluefox
Kennedy Stewart's campaign manager Neil Monckton is bringing some unwanted negative press to his candidate's doorstep.
Apparently it's "defamatory" to highlight the Vancouver and District Labour Council's endorsements of, and foot soldiers helping out, Kennedy's mayoral campaign, to the point where Monckton bullied two people to delete social media posts with strongly implied threats of legal action. One was taken down but the individual in question later clarified why.
I guess if they felt their lead in public opinion was as strong as it appears they wouldn't have resorted to trying to bully people. Maybe they're not as confident as the polls suggest they should be?
Either way Kennedy's complicity in the demovictions in his federal riding tells me he would be no better than Gregor at "solving" housing (if he'd even want to). We might as well just give the juice guy another term at this point.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2018/10/12/kennedy-stewart-campaign-threat/ (also covered by other media sources - Breaker, CKNW, to name two). |
I don't like how unions and big labour are controlling our politics. And Kennedy honestly seems like a mouthpiece than an actual independent thinker. He's a posterboy for a group. Thats why he has no control over what they do. Bullying is a classic union & big labour strategy, they have law firms on retainer. In the end there's a reason unions tend to be strongly associated/connected with the mafia. Unions should definitely be banned from politics. Unions are for negotiations between their members and the company, not as political entities. Otherwise you can't trust whomever is elected whenever the unions backing him are hired over others. Same as I now look down on the NDP because they restricted work to only the unions that backed them which is clearly corruption. Do your really want a government that hires and make decisions based on giving as much kickback as possible to unions? Or one that takes the best quote to maximize your tax dollars. At least if another candidate is elected and a union is hired it'll be less damning.
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