Rob Shaw: BC Green Leadership -Kandidat droht die Partei mit rechtlichen Schritten
Rob Shaw: BC Green leadership contestant threatens party with legal action
Rob Shaw: BC Green Leadership -Kandidat droht die Partei mit rechtlichen Schritten
Rob Shaw: BC Green leadership contestant threatens party with legal action
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Emily Lowan is the only one of the three candidates that has run any kind of campaign at all. If the other two have been doing media, touring the province, putting out policy positions, they’ve done it extraordinarily quietly. It’d be a shocking outcome if she didn’t win and almost certainly due to the huge backlog of membership verifications.
On one hand – I definitely understand the frustration, and the party probably needs to get their act together in order to actually process all the applications in a reasonable time.
On the other hand – all the candidates and members would have been aware of the sign-up rules before this started, I’m not sure they’ll have much of a case for legal action here. I also don’t buy the argument that the verification practices are discriminatory, the way they’re listed in the article seems pretty straightforward and reasonable to me.
Realistically – this is probably more of a story about the party being incompetent versus discriminatory against a particular considerate. (Which is unfortunately par for the course for the federal Green Party at least ). An easy own goal here.
I would like the Greens to figure their stuff out. We need some voices in Parliament who are not solely there select oligarchs as corporate welfare recipients.
Green Parties in Canada appearing competent challenge (impossible).
This isn’t like if the Manitoba or Nova Scotia Green Parties got an influx of thousands of people, they barely have any members or volunteers to actually do, well, anything. This is a party with a full governance board with elected representatives to the BC legislature. It’s like they want to be an exclusive club with no want to grow. Pretty embarrassing.
Leaders don’t attack their tribe. And belligerent children should not be taken seriously as potential party leader candidates. Emily Lowan has now threatened legal action against the BC Greens because and her followers convinced a bunch of university students to sign a piece of paper and these people are so uninterested in the BC Greens they refuse to verify themselves. If they don’t verify themselves, they can’t vote in the BC Greens leadership race. The verification process is simple. These young people are not politically motivated, are not vested in the BC Greens – and Emily Lowan -who gives new meaning to the word „HUBRIS“ – is merely an activist looking for a paid position within a political party. If she’s not elected leader she will disappear. She cares nothing for the BC Greens unless she can exploit it for her personal benefit.
If Emily becomes leader of the BC Greens, donations will plummet because people like myself, who usually donate the maximum, will stop donating and will withdraw their memberships. Two children with a modicum of education and no professional career experience running against Jonathan Kerr, a physician with professional and political career experience. That IS a joke.