tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post4835138867119808943..comments2024-02-07T16:22:39.625-05:00Comments on Jeff Jedras: Why I have no time for David Bertschi’s complaintsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post-73148420890530846952014-12-10T16:58:51.446-05:002014-12-10T16:58:51.446-05:00Here is why you are completely wrong in your asses...Here is why you are completely wrong in your assessment. Your entire argument hinges upon your claim that David broke the rules set by the LPC and thus his failure caused his demise. This assumption is wrong and therefore your argument crumbles. Just because the LPC leaked to the press the reasons why Mr. Bertschi's green light status was revoked does not make these reasons factual. Let's look at the facts:<br /><br />1- David was approved as a candidate contingent upon him repaying his leadership debt before the next election based on an agreed schedule.<br />2- By November Mr. Bertschi was well ahead of Mr. Leslie in terms of membership sales, which normally correlate with votes at nomination meetings. This means that Mr. Bertschi would have beat Mr. Leslie by about ~20% at the meeting, something that would have been quite embarrassing for the LPC.<br />3- It was upon this realization that the LPC acted and revoked his status, citing two reasons: (1) Mr. Bertschi's level of debt was unacceptably high and; (2) Mr. Bertschi failed to disclose current litigation that might damage the reputation of the party.<br />4- Both these reasons are false. With regards to the first reason, Mr. Bertschi had paid off $100,000 of his debt well ahead of the schedule agreed upon by the LPC and only has $50,000 remaining. Thus it cannot be considered unacceptably high given that he was ahead of payment plan approved by the LPC. With regards to the second reason, the litigation they were referring to was a defamation suit against a rag American tabloid website that would not have embarrassed the party and in fact had been abandoned 8 months prior. The green light nomination forms do not ask if you had any past litigation, only current.<br /><br />Therefore, it can easily be seen that the reasons given by the LPC were false, making your entire argument false. In fact, Mr. Bertschi has gone so far as to give the LPC a Notice of Libel because of the lies that they spread to the media. <br /><br />What we can conclude from these facts is that the LPC was fearful that their preferred candidate was going to lose and lied to Canadians to force a candidate out undemocratically.<br /><br />Even though this is just a blog, I implore you to critically reason through things before writing conclusions. If you don't, your arguments can so easily be torn apart. It's easy to blame the person who's stirring the pot, but sometimes we have to critically assess the establishment and realize that some things are fundamentally wrong. You may support the LPC, as I do, but they do not always act in the interest of Canadians. All Mr. Bertschi is doing is fighting for the rights of Canadians to have a voice, after the LPC denied them that right. It seems like so many people are complacent to this deterioration of true representation and leadership, because they view it as politics as usual. At least someone is standing up and saying, "I've had enough".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16028673821292977114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post-31882358533698190902014-12-08T17:33:35.042-05:002014-12-08T17:33:35.042-05:00Bertschi comes across as a bit of a thug. Your pa...Bertschi comes across as a bit of a thug. Your party is well rid of him.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post-85091161677502400532014-12-08T17:15:50.394-05:002014-12-08T17:15:50.394-05:00Agreed. Part of the problem I've been pretty c...Agreed. Part of the problem I've been pretty critical about on my blog with regards to campaign debt is that there was a lot of pressure (worse from the NDP than the Liberals) shortly after the leadership election to retire the debt. Instead of using the new opportunity of a large number of new signups motivated and following given a new leadership campaign, the mass emails were being taken up on retiring each of the candidates debts. It is a huge squandering of an opportunity. <br /><br />There SHOULD be relatively stringent rules about debt repayment, and further it should be up to the individuals with very heavy restriction on the use of country wide emails to NDP/Liberal supports for the purposes of retiring the debt. And if Bertschi can't manage to do that, he needs to stop huffing and puffing that it is undemocratic. baziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11554808178484135529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post-90027637373906267362014-12-08T17:15:26.308-05:002014-12-08T17:15:26.308-05:00Agreed. Part of the problem I've been pretty c...Agreed. Part of the problem I've been pretty critical about on my blog with regards to campaign debt is that there was a lot of pressure (worse from the NDP than the Liberals) shortly after the leadership election to retire the debt. Instead of using the new opportunity of a large number of new signups motivated and following given a new leadership campaign, the mass emails were being taken up on retiring each of the candidates debts. It is a huge squandering of an opportunity. <br /><br />There SHOULD be relatively stringent rules about debt repayment, and further it should be up to the individuals with very heavy restriction on the use of country wide emails to NDP/Liberal supports for the purposes of retiring the debt. And if Bertschi can't manage to do that, he needs to stop huffing and puffing that it is undemocratic. baziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11554808178484135529noreply@blogger.com