Consider this letter attached to the graduating students of Bishop James Mahoney High School in Saskatoon.
Who allowed this letter to be included with a high school diploma?
How many more schools were infected by this document?
Was the government asked to do the same?
Notice how the first sentence of the letter mentions the NDP. If the leader of the opposition wants to wish graduating students well, he should as the leader of the opposition. The moment Lingenfelter mentions a party, it becomes political propaganda.
This letter is outrageous. This is not a letter of congratulations. This is an attempt to introduce high school students to the NDP (which is probably a continuation of what their left wing union teachers were already doing).
There are NO depths to which Lingenfelter and the NDP will not sink.
UPDATE...
It seems as though the signature above may not even be Lingenfelter's. Take a look at a document that we know Lingenfelter signed.
The signature on this document bears very little resemblance to the one on the graduate letter. Politicians often use a signature stamp, but this one seems like it may have been signed by a staffer.
In other words, the probable first document from Dwain Lingenfelter to a first time voter is likely not even signed by him.
Seems to us that Dwain is probably being a bit... disingenuous. But we expect nothing less from Dwain Lingenfelter.
UPDATE...
A listener to JGL just coined a new election phrase...
"It stinks if it comes from Link"
9 comments:
Who knew sending a congratulatory letter was sinking low? Must be a pretty slow period in the caucus office if this is what is being pushed as the outrage of the day.
Travis,
Thank you for participating in this blog.
For the record and for our readers, we would like to point out that you are Travis Lingenfelter, the son of Dwain Lingenfelter.
Your comments will be considered in that light.
Two words regarding the signature discrepancy....plausible deniability.
Syncro
Just as I consider a blog run by a party staffer on taxpayer time to not be very credible.
When I graduated from high school in 2000, I never got a letter from Kevin Taft and the official opposition Alberta Liberals.
And why does it say (paraphrase) "please consider staying here"? Answer: to maintain the "small-c conservative government=recession" propaganda meme - when all independent economic statistics about Saskatchewan say that unemployment is still low and housing prices are only 2.3% below 2009 prices in Regina.
Why would any teenager want to leave the "Saska-boom"? Especially with the Melfort diamond mine excavation set to begin and Wynyard about to double its population with a combined sodium-potash mine in the next 3 years.
Propaganda, pure and simple.
The mention of the NDP is what makes it unsavoury. If he had written "on behalf of the official opposition, I want to yadda yadda..." then it would be no problem.
Still, I consider this to be in bad taste, not the end of life as we know it.
With all due respect, I think that the only real issue here is that Mr. Lingenfelter used the wrong letterhead to write this letter.
If he wanted to congratulate the graduate on behalf of the NDP caucus, then he should have used the caucus's letterhead, not the LOO letterhead or designation.
Of all the NDP scandals the Sask Party has let slide - Spudco, Channel Lake, Hagel, Carriere, etc. - this is peanuts.
How the Meadow Lake voter fraud case going? That one stinks! But, now we know why...
No worries Trent, I'm sure that one will be coming soon to an election campaign near you.
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