David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others
Methinks everybody knows why I was not surprised that McKenzie was no better than her buddy Dominic Cardy who quit as leader to become the Chief of Staff for Mr Higgs N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/jennifer-mckenzie-steps-down-as-ndp.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/jennifer-mckenzie-ndp-leader-1.5032389
Jennifer McKenzie steps down as NDP leader
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David Amos
I was not impressed when I ran against McKenzie 2015. She even witnessed a spit and chew I had with Higgs after a debate with Rob Moore in Hampton. Yet years later the lady still did not deem me worthy of a simple conversation to ask why I ran in Saint John Harbour in 2006.
Methinks everybody knows why I was not surprised when she became the leader after her buddy Dominic Cardy quit and became the Chief of Staff for Higgs. In a nutshell the NDP is history N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
Gabriel Boucher
This isn't surprising at all.
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David Amos
@Gabriel Boucher Mais Oui
David Amos
@David Amos CBC has something against French?
Bob Smith
When the best thing a party
leader can say about a recent election is that they ran candidates,
might be time to change both leader and thinking.
David Amos
@Bob Smith YUP
Dave Girdwood
She was acclaimed in the last
NDP Leadership "Race". Will anyone step forward, or is this the end of
the NDP provincially in New Brunswick?
David Amos
@Dave Girdwood Who cares?
Matt Steele
Pretty tough for the NDP to
get any traction in N.B. has no one really takes them seriously . The
Federal NDPs are going down the same road , and are now in a free fall
just months before an election in Oct . .
David Amos
@Matt Steele Cry me a river
We had a bright,
hard-working, principled leader and we jettisoned her because, at this
point in history, the people of New Brunswick aren't interested in a
socialist party. The election results had nothing to do with Jennifer's
leadership. The NDP has always been 'my team' but the members of good,
effective teams have each other's backs in good times and bad. We sure
didn't. Some good, principled people tried to do the right thing but
there weren't enough of them. I've cancelled my membership.
Jeff Houlahan
Jeff Houlahan
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David Amos
David Amos
@ Who are you and why are you allowed to post comment anonymously?
David Amos
@David Amos Why can't I question the obvious?
Frank Campbell
The problem, as i see it, is
that the people have forgotten or don't know what the NDP stand for, and
The NDP seem to have forgotten also.... what is needed before a
leadership convention is a marathon session to iron out who they are,
what they believe and are the relevant...... As I see it.
David Amos
@Frank Campbell Me Too
JJ Carrier
Two words to solve this - Yvon Godin...
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Matt Steele
@JJ Carrier ......Yvon Godin
certainly wouldn't be interested unless that was some big bucks in it
for him.....he has already milked the Federal system for every penny he
could get . Maybe Dominic LeBlanc , Brian Gallant , or Frank McKenna
should take over the NDP leadership .
David Amos
@JJ Carrier Two more? How about Too Funny?
George Duquette
The way the NDP treat their
leaders they don’t deserve to be in government. Mulcair was one of their
best and look what they did to him. I remember McDonough proposing some
changes to bring the NDP into the mainstream and it refused. McDonough
was gone soon afterwards and the party is still in the fringes.
David Amos
@George Duquette Methinks
overseeing the NDP is like trying to herd cats Hence Cardy tried ruling
them with a iron fist but he was quick to bail on his beloved party when
that wicked little game failed N'esy Pas?
michael levesque
people remember how the Lord
gov bought off Weir with a parasite for life to the tax payer govt job
destroying any chance of the NDP being relevant to NB. voters have
long memories.
David Amos
@michael levesque Methinks
that was a telling thing However you don't know the whole story but the
Liberals know that Mr Higgs, Bill Oliver and Bernard Richard certainly
do N'esy Pas?
Sean Onuaillain
@michael levesque You are
right. The writer of this story twice mentions that Weir resigned in
2005, but neglects to say that it was to take a gig at a DM level in the
Bernard Lord government. She offered no transitional assistance to her
party, nothing. Just quit and went to work for the PCs. Kind of like
Brian Cardy, except he at least had the intestinal fortitude to run for
a seat. Not Weir.
Kenneth Hewer
sadly the party has stayed far to centrist and away from Marxist roots
SarahRose Werner
@Kenneth Hewer - I'd say socialist (a more general term) rather than specifically Marxist.
David Amos
@Kenneth Hewer Trust that many folks are not sad about that fact
Jake Newman
the NDP (like the greens) are
nothing more than a protest opposition party. We've seen the
disastrous results the times provincially they've come into power.
David Amos
@Jake Newman YUP
Ronald Parker
@Jake Newman I think that could be said of all parties at one point or another.
SarahRose Werner
During the Cardy years when
the NB NDP was flirting with being a centrist party, the Greens moved in
on the hearts of voters with left-wing tendencies. It's going to take
something or someone really special to win those votes back. McKenzie
just wasn't it.
David Amos
@SarahRose Werner Methinks
"The Powers That Be" consider the NDP irrelevant no matter who wins the
by-elections tonight and it looks like even many of their former party
members agree N'esy Pas?
Murray Brown
@SarahRose Werner ... If
you're a centrist... Your have no business voting for the NDP party.
There is nothing centrist about them. They are, were and always will be
socialist. The Green party is the farthest you can go to the left
without being a socialist fascist.... Their ideas are really out there
and even socialist won't go to that territory... The problem for the NDP
is that the Liberals under Trudeau portrayed the liberal party as being
more socialist in the last federal election... That will likely come to
an end in the next federal election, because centrist liberals will be
voting in droves for the Tories and socialist will return to the fold
and vote NDP. Trudeau's fall is coming and thins will look fine for the
NDP after that. The odd part.... According to the CBC there are only
600 card carrying NDP members.... That must be complete balderdash.
Thank You for your service:
Time to let NBers do what they (sadly) do best, i.e. sink with either
the liberals or Conservatives. We are the 2nd poorest province in the
country, and PROUD OF IT.
David Amos
@eddy watts Methinks thou doth jest too much N'esy Pas?
Ray Bungay
I think it is time for the
NDP in NB and Nationally to review everything about where the party
started, where it was at the death of Jack Lawton and where it is now. I
think the party was close under Mr Lawton but something changed since
then.
David Naugler
@Ray Bungay I was NDP before Jack Layton and after, not.
David Amos
@David Naugler Methinks you are not alone N'esy Pas?
Jennifer McKenzie steps down as NDP leader
Resignation comes a day after members vote for leadership review
Jennifer McKenzie has resigned as
leader of the New Brunswick NDP, a day after members voted to hold a
leadership convention before the end of August.
In a statement Monday, McKenzie said she was resigning "effective immediately."
"The NDP has by a vote this week determined that there will be a leadership convention within the next six months," she said. "I have decided not to participate in such a leadership contest."
McKenzie has been leader since August 2017 and led the party in the provincial election last September, which resulted in no seats for the NDP.
In
her statement, McKenzie said she was "thankful," for the opportunity to
be leader. Despite the disappointing results of the Sept. 24 election,
she said, she is glad that the party had a full slate of candidates and
that more than 50 per cent of them were women.
McKenzie ran third in Saint John Harbour, the riding represented by the last NDP member of the legislature, Elizabeth Weir, who retired from politics in 2005.
In 2018, the NDP received more than 19,000 votes provincewide, a 60 per cent drop from 2014 and its worst result in a New Brunswick election in 44 years.
McKenzie campaigned on a return to the NDP's socialist roots, promising universal childcare, pay equity, home care, better nursing home ratios and pharmacare.
This was a shift from what former leader Dominic Cardy pushed for. He alienated some people by endorsing the Energy East pipeline and distancing himself from unions. He's now a minister in the Progressive Conservative government.
NDP
Leader Jennifer McKenzie, left, with Green Party Leader David Coon,
People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin, Liberal Leader Brian Gallant,
Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs debated in Riverview during
the 2018 elections. (Marc Grandmaison/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
"The
party has returned to its socialist roots and I am confident that the
ideas we presented to New Brunswickers in the election will continue to
form the basis of a progressive agenda for the party and the province,"
McKenzie said in her resignation statement.
In 2018, the NDP received five per cent of the popular vote, down from 11 per cent when Cardy was leader.
The NDP appears to have missed the wave that propelled the two other alternative parties (the Green Party and People's Alliance) to greater success. The Greens had 11 per cent and the Alliance had 12 per cent of the popular vote last election, and each won three ridings.
Since Weir resigned in 2005, the NDP has had four leaders, including McKenzie, who ran for the leadership unopposed.
A review vote
On Sunday at Moncton's Darts Club, 95 delegates took part in a vote on whether to hold a leadership review.
The vote was close, with 52 in favour and 43 against, said Danny Légère, who holds a labour seat on the NDP provincial council. He said the results of the 2018 provincial elections definitely contributed to this vote.
"Of course, at the end of the day there are some who feel that leadership may be a factor in that," he said.
NDP members met at Moncton's Dart Club Sunday night, and voted for a leadership review. (Danny Légère/Submitted)
No date has been set for the leadership convention, which has to be held in the next six months.
The vote was by secret ballot, Légère said, but some people did voice their disagreement with the results.
"They didn't understand why we were going to a leadership review," he said. "Some felt that we shouldn't be changing leaders as often as we do. It wasn't good for the party, that we needed consistency. Some felt otherwise."
There are about 600 card-carrying NDP members provincially.
In a statement Monday, McKenzie said she was resigning "effective immediately."
"The NDP has by a vote this week determined that there will be a leadership convention within the next six months," she said. "I have decided not to participate in such a leadership contest."
McKenzie has been leader since August 2017 and led the party in the provincial election last September, which resulted in no seats for the NDP.
McKenzie ran third in Saint John Harbour, the riding represented by the last NDP member of the legislature, Elizabeth Weir, who retired from politics in 2005.
In 2018, the NDP received more than 19,000 votes provincewide, a 60 per cent drop from 2014 and its worst result in a New Brunswick election in 44 years.
McKenzie campaigned on a return to the NDP's socialist roots, promising universal childcare, pay equity, home care, better nursing home ratios and pharmacare.
This was a shift from what former leader Dominic Cardy pushed for. He alienated some people by endorsing the Energy East pipeline and distancing himself from unions. He's now a minister in the Progressive Conservative government.
In 2018, the NDP received five per cent of the popular vote, down from 11 per cent when Cardy was leader.
The NDP appears to have missed the wave that propelled the two other alternative parties (the Green Party and People's Alliance) to greater success. The Greens had 11 per cent and the Alliance had 12 per cent of the popular vote last election, and each won three ridings.
Since Weir resigned in 2005, the NDP has had four leaders, including McKenzie, who ran for the leadership unopposed.
A review vote
On Sunday at Moncton's Darts Club, 95 delegates took part in a vote on whether to hold a leadership review.
The vote was close, with 52 in favour and 43 against, said Danny Légère, who holds a labour seat on the NDP provincial council. He said the results of the 2018 provincial elections definitely contributed to this vote.
"Of course, at the end of the day there are some who feel that leadership may be a factor in that," he said.
The vote was by secret ballot, Légère said, but some people did voice their disagreement with the results.
"They didn't understand why we were going to a leadership review," he said. "Some felt that we shouldn't be changing leaders as often as we do. It wasn't good for the party, that we needed consistency. Some felt otherwise."
There are about 600 card-carrying NDP members provincially.
With files from Catherine Harrop
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