Turncoat Despot - No Free Speech Please. I Need Re-Election

Turncoat.

When Gordon Campbell was in opposition he vehemently opposed third party spending limits as gag laws.

Now, that he's facing an election, he is trying to ram through the legislature, without much debate, the exact gag laws he used to decry.

Everybody - not just the unions - see this move for what it is: anti-democratic despotism.

I don't care if General Morons or Raleigh Caffeine and Cancer Company and my Uncle Sal spend millions on pre-election ads. Let's get it all out there. Let every dog have his day.

Anyone with the faintest notion of what constitutes a modern democracy is offended by Bill 42.

Everyone, that is, but the province's Attorney-Genial, Wally Opaque, who wins one of the Quote of the Day prizes with this gem:

"I don't understand why all of a sudden there's such a concern about this."

'nuff said?