Flinging dirt at an opponent is a time-honored political tradition. And when that opponent is a former friend whose allegiance has recently changed, well, that can really boost the power of your throwing arm.
But flinging mud without getting your hands dirty takes a light touch, and B.C. Liberal Whip Kevin Krueger is anything but deft.
So when Krueger slagged newly-independent MLA Elayne Brenzinger, saying she was suspended from caucus last December after physically attacking a staff member, he didn’t do himself or his colleagues any favours.
See, Krueger is painting Brenzinger as unstable, even dangerous. So if this incident was serious enough to merit these accusations now, why did the Liberals hush it up for three months? Were they ever going to tell the voters in Brenzinger’s Surrey-Whalley constituency?
And if it wasn’t serious enough to go public with it back then, why raise it now?
Krueger has painted himself into a corner, and as government whip he wears this personally. He and the rest of the Liberal caucus either engaged in a three-month-long coverup starting in December, or launched a nasty little smear campaign now. Either way, it’s dirty.
Mud. The damn stuff oughta come with a warning label.
