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Cabinet ministers pledge support for embattled Premier
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
Shane Woodford | Email news tips to shane.woodford@corusent.com
3/3/2013

BC Liberal cabinet ministers are pledging support for the Premier leading into an emergency cabinet meeting.


Community Minister Bill Bennett says this whole thing has been overblown by the media and the party is all on the same page.
Bennett says the Premier, Christy Clark, isn't going anywhere, and if she does:

"I think we have a good chance of winning, and we do it with Christy Clark and I can tell you i'm not doing it with anybody else--she is our leader, I like her, I trust her, and I respect her and I'm going to war with her".

REPORTER: "So if she goes, you're going?"

"I'm not going to run with anyone else but Christy".

Other members are also showing support for Clark.


House Leader Mike de Jong says he backs Clarke despite heavy criticism following a leaked plan to try and win over ethnic voters.

"Wwe have our team, we have our captain, and we're getting ready for an important electoral process"

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  1. brianp1950 posted on 03/03/2013 04:30 PM
    overblown by the media? what about the offended parties? no wonder you guys are in trouble, you just do not get it, sitting in your little world not caring what the rest of us think about you guys using taxpayer money for partisan purposes? I am actually gladt thatI will still get a chance in May to throw your sorry butts out of office!
  2. fredb_7066 posted on 03/03/2013 04:33 PM
    thank you for staying on christy ,,,,i support the ndp
  3. LorAx posted on 03/03/2013 04:35 PM
    Such blind loyality is rivaled only by the skeletons in the closet.
  4. michael_4092 posted on 03/03/2013 04:36 PM
    No worries if dreams don't come true today......May is here in the blink of an eye!
  5. SlimP_9860 posted on 03/03/2013 04:49 PM
    "We have our team, we have our captain, and we're getting ready for an important electoral process"

    They must want lose badly. Or they don't know that only the captain has to go down with the ship.
    To be fair, although your leader is clearly incompetent and in over her head, you can all thank Gordon Campbell for having to swim in a cesspool.
  6. Rusty S posted on 03/03/2013 04:56 PM
    It would be interesting to examine the connection each cabinet member has to zillionaire rancher Fehr and the Prince George wood centre. Bell should go, but it doesn't stop there. Heavyset apologist Coleman has traveled on all-expenses-paid trips to major US sporting events in company of Fehr. It's almost Unfehr he didn't get his contract when he put that much effort in.
  7. JD_9814 posted on 03/03/2013 05:49 PM
    "I think we have a good chance of winning, and we do it with Christy Clark and I can tell you i'm not doing it with anybody else--she is our leader, I like her, I trust her, and I respect her and I'm going to war with her".

    These guys can't even fake sincerety.
  8. DeryckN posted on 03/03/2013 05:56 PM
    If the party is so firmly behind her why are the riding association executives resigning in droves? Explain please. The government is not the party. If they were, we wouldn't be in this mess would we?
  9. bctaxpayer posted on 03/03/2013 06:03 PM
    Thanks risky for staying as you are much,much,much Dummer that I thought.You are a arrogant,stubborn useless unelected leader .You will fail as becoming our elected Premier.Why are you so stupid,stupid stupid,my you are dumb.
  10. miltw posted on 03/03/2013 06:08 PM
    If there is nothing to worry over why the non scheduled Sunday cabinet meeting? She didn't call it she was asked to show up most likely so tat the rat's could see that she hadn't abandoned them over the weekend with our telling them.
    They can't sit when they are supposed to be working but they run to an emergency meeting when their oopsy was discovered.
  11. brianp1950 posted on 03/03/2013 06:56 PM
    wonder what the tab will be tonight for all these guys to go out for supper?
  12. AndreaK_5056 posted on 03/03/2013 07:03 PM
    I just want to thank Christy and her fiberals for delaying the election until the fixed date in May because you have given us at the BC Conservative Party plenty of time to get organized, we're very close to naming over 60 candidates. And all of the fiberal implosions and the name calling emails are also helping us out. So, yes, thanks!

    Vote BC Conservatives.
    1. Ken280 posted on 03/03/2013 11:32 PM
      @AndreaK_5056 You Cons are involved up to your necks with the shenanigans in BC politics.This is the party you voted for in the last 12 yr ! So give me a break you have no experience what so ever and if you did get in, we would never get an honest look at those books now would we! You Cons were running this province Kevin Falcon,Rich Coleman, Colin Hansen,just to name a few So give me a break you could not organize sh*te down a toilet! Go NDP Go
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