Let me first say that I greatly appreciate the well-deserved flak that The Citizen has been hurling at the BC Liberals for their pre-election spate of announcements of surplus moneys they've been building up for years which are now being recklessly spent to get themselves re-elected.
Utterly shameless, if unsurprising.
The headline picture of our two local candidates - including B.C.'s best ever argument for term limits on MLAs, Ms. Shirley Bond - nonetheless was galling. Maybe it was aftershock.
As I drove along Foothills Tuesday evening I was appalled at the utter waste and excess that Morris no doubt has authorized for utterly unimaginative no message signage clutter. I am sure similar Bondage pollution is rife across the line in Prince George-Valemount.
And of course the same largesse is poured into ads so that we get a double dose of the Lib candidates at the top and bottom of Tuesday's Citizen's front page.
What should we take from such excess messaging?
Fear, that at last Prince George just might stop voting mindlessly for whomever or whatever runs for the Liberals here?
Utter disregard for the environment, which will ultimately pay the price for their superfluous signage?
Complete disrespect for the electorate, who, it seems are presumed to require hundreds, nay thousands, of constant repeated reminders, devoid of any message brainlessly repeating "Morris, Morris, Morris, Bond, Bond, Bond," just in case the voters, who the Liberals take for idiots, might forget those names?
Or, maybe the message is just the bottomless egoism of two people from a party that has been in power way too long.
Norman Dale
Prince George
