The NDP suspended long time member Buzz Hargrove's membership
Well the NDP finally grew a backbone and ditched Buzz. Though the decision is not with out some flack from progressive bloggers. While Blogging Tories rub their hands with glee. Give it up. Buzz deserved no less and the NDP would have looked stupid if it can enforce a whipped vote on Same Sex Marriage in the house but can't whip its high profile members who sit on its executive board, like Hargrove.
Those who compare Buzz to other high profile NDP members who worked for Liberal candidates or supported the Liberals via third party strategies miss the point. None of these folks called for Strategic voting. None of them were poster boys for the Liberals on the Liberals official election web site. Only Buzz went that far.
NDP ouster of Hargrove `knee-jerk'
Toronto Star -
Kicking Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove out of the New Democratic Party is a "shockingly bad decision" that is divisive and unnecessary, says a fellow union leader.
In Alberta Hargroves buddy is Dan MacLennan who is not in the house of labour but building his own little Liberal labour empire called AUPE. Now Buzz can do the same with CAW. Which is what he has been doing for several years now.
He used to fight with bosses now he capitulates to them and acts as their comprador while fighting the NDP and the CLC. His was not an election strategy from the Left it was an election strategy for funding the Big Three Auto companies. It's not just his political strategy that has failed and is quetionable but his labour strategy to deal with the cuts to Canadian autoworkers jobs that is in question too.What's good for GM is bad for Workers
Buzz is all about Buzz, and his strategy failed. Those who say he was only calling for a vote for the Liberals as a last resort deliberately overlook that he was a poster boy for the Liberals, see here and here. When you are election wall paper you know which side your bread is buttered on.
Buzz made his bed now he can sleep in it. And the NDP doesn't have to worry about being stabbed in the back by bad boy Buzz. Next election Buzz's political clout will be that of a flea. It was only his connection to the NDP that made him and his pronouncements important. Next election he won't even warrent being Liberal wallpaper. See my stories on BUZZ.
NDP tells Hargrove to buzz off
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Toronto — Buzz Hargrove has been suspended, not expelled, from the Ontario NDP because of complaints that he broke the party's constitution during the ...
Ontario NDP says complaints from party members led to Hargrove's ...
Canada.com, Canada -
TORONTO (CP) - The president of the Ontario NDP says complaints from party members led to the suspension of Buzz Hargrove's party membership. ...
NDP kicks Hargrove out of party
Toronto Star, Canada -
The NDP has expelled Buzz Hargrove, the country's most prominent labour leader, for actively promoting strategic voting and Liberal candidates in last month's ...
Hargrove out of NDP after show of Liberal support
Mississauga News, Canada -
Buzz Hargrove, Mississauga resident and president of the Canadian Auto Workers, has been kicked out of the NDP for turning his back on the party during the ...
NDP sanctions Hargrove over election actions
London Free Press, Canada -
By MIKE OLIVEIRA, CP. TORONTO -- Buzz Hargrove has been suspended, not expelled, from the Ontario NDP because of complaints he broke ...
NDP dumps Buzz Hargrove
CBC Montreal, Canada -
The executive of the New Democratic Party's Ontario wing has voted to revoke the party membership of Canada's best-known union boss. ...
Rabble.ca Babble Forum on Buzz getting Booted.
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This is a good move by the NDP.
ReplyDeleteThough apparently not without controversy since apparently the Federal party does not endorse this. Ah a house divided. Just the way Buzz likes it.
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