Beaton Tulk, Andrew Furey, and a pair of knit socks
Bluster, nonsense is no defence against the most serious political scandal in generations
If Andrew Furey had receipts that show he paid for the fishing trip in July 2021 at John Risley’s fishing lodge in Labrador, he’d have produced them long ago.
It’s that simple.
The surest way to kill whatever the Pea Seas are fishing for in the whole John Risley -Andrew Furey - Brendan Paddick love triangle is to show the receipts that confirm as true the story Furey has already told.
Instead, Furey and the Liberals have kept the wound in their credibility open for weeks, as if they enjoy the growing stain on the carpet at their feet and the woozy feeling they are getting.
The song was wrong.
Suicide is far from painless.
Political suicide is worse, if that is even possible, but only because it takes so long to go from figurative slit of wrist to corpse.
And it is ugly to watch. Twisting. Screams. Hysterics. More wounds, all self-inflicted.
Dwight Ball bled through five years of blunders, fumbles, cock-ups, and scandals before his time in the Premier’s office finally expired. Hold my beer, Furey said. In just two years, Furey is now caught up to Ball and headed for a new record as the Paddick-Risley-Furey menage a trois starts to bump up against the Bruce Chaulk mess.
The latter took yet another twist this week as the House officer who investigated Chaulk for allegations of abuse and harassment now faces accusations of his own. Unlike the report on Chaulk, which sat on the incompetent Speaker’s desk for months, this latest one has gone from the House of Assembly management commission to cabinet with the ink on it still damp from the printer.
The link between the two is that Chaulk would be the officer to handle a complaint against Furey should anyone lay one, like someone laid a complaint against Justin Trudeau over his trip to visit the Aga Khan. The difference between Chaulk and the federal ethics commissioner is that Chaulk is under a cloud from those earlier allegations. He cannot credible investigate anyone, although that enver stopped him before or politicians from accepting his junk reports..
An independent review found fault with the investigation of the allegations against Chaulk but did not exonerate him. That did not stop the cabinet from restoring Chaulk to his job and say nothing about a second investigation into what remain serious allegations the reviewer felt might lead to dismissal if another investigation was done properly. Given the way he wound up back in his job, Chaulk would be doubly barred from investigating Furey, should anyone complain about the latter’s behaviour since the middle of 2021.
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