Yeah they seem to have made a conscious decision to take a more negative turn, rather than outline the positive attributes of their candidate (and there are some)
The Northern Connector was rather full of similar declarations for the Liberals, page two with an ad advising that Mr. Pond was “instrumental” in securing funding for the cruise ship and container facilities (a tad creative in description methinks) it stresses the job angle, though in six years of the last two councils jobs went out of town and with them the folks that lived here.
Page ten had a generic ad suggesting that not voting for Liberals leaves the provinces jobs at risk, though there wasn’t much to back up that suggestion.
Page eleven is a declaration from the Independent Power Producers that the NDP would freeze investment and continue to import dirty coal power from the US, though they don’t outline if and where this process currently takes place
Page thirteen has the beer ad, enough said on that silliness…
Page fourteen is a full page ad for Mr. Pond detailing that the future is port development, this of course despite the fact that the current Liberals are spending much more on Delta Port than Fairview, it again stresses how Mr. Pond “delivered” phase one though it doesn’t outline his involvement other than speaking in favour of it…
Page twenty four offered up a more humble request for votes from Donny Van Dyk in Terrace, no bold declarations in that one just your standard Liberal stump speech, not negative just informative.
Not sure who decided that the Pond campaign had to go all thermo nuclear, but it seems a foolish gambit… I would rather have had him outline what he believed he could offer to the riding what he feels he could achieve, hell he may not ever actually achieve any of them, but at least we would know what and where he stands, rather than these goofy and sometimes outright shaded declarations…
Then again they seem to have spent a lot of energy on a newspaper that most people toss into recycling the day that they get it, so that perhaps shows their basic knowledge of getting the message out.
I only discovered the thing because my kid was telling me that Herb Pond wants to save us money on beer, which I thought was a rather funny campaign issue, if he hadn’t mentioned it to me I never would have seen all the other ads…
Tis a strange way to run a campaign.