NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release: May 4, 2009
Social policy activist Kari Simpson
comments:
Why Marc
Dalton Must Sue Spencer Herbert and the New Delusional Party:
Because truth matters!
LANGLEY,
May 4, 2009 — Kari Simpson, founder of the Citizens’ Research Institute
and co-host of the popular new Internet radio program RoadkillRadio.com, said today NDP leader
Carole James and NDP candidate Spencer Herbert owe Liberal candidate Marc
Dalton a public apology for misrepresenting statements he made in a 12-year-old
e-mail.
“If
he doesn’t get an apology, he should sue them,” Simpson said,
“for two reasons. Firstly, because in this day and age of
‘wwwgoogleinfomation’, Spencer Herbert’s willful distortions
will wrongly define Marc Dalton forever; secondly—and most
important—because the truth matters.”
Ms.
Simpson was referring to recent public statements by MLA candidate Spencer
Herbert, in which he called on Dalton
to resign as Liberal candidate, because of an allegedly
‘homophobic’ e-mail he sent in 1996.
“Fair
comment demands true facts,” said Simpson. “Any child reading Mr.
Dalton’s comments would understand that Spencer Herbert’s
assertions have no basis in truth. Mr. Dalton did not equate homosexuality to pedophilia,
as Herbert alleges.
“What
is also important is the willingness of Carole James et al—and some members of the
media—to willingly accept Spencer Herbert’s intellectually
challenged hissy-fit. Can’t they read?”
Such
tactics have been common among the NDP’s gay activists. Spencer
Herbert’s financial agent, Murray Bilida, employed similar tactics about
Kari Simpson on CBC Radio (2001). Bilida, when confronted with his lie and a
pending lawsuit, apologized with impressive swiftness. CBC apologized very
quickly, too, stating on air: “Murray Bilida acknowledges that his comments were untrue
and without foundation, and joins the CBC in its apology to Ms Simpson…”
“Mr.
Herbert seems to associate with an untrustworthy lot,” Simpson said
today. “It was reported, just this March in Xtra West, that Bilida was organizing a rally; and on his
intended list of speakers was an impressive list of the delusional—MP
Hedy Fry, famous for misinforming the House of Commons in Ottawa about
non-existent ‘burning crosses in Prince George’; and the BCTF’s
‘Social Justice’ trainer and teacher, self-admitted liar James
Chamberlain; and of course, Spencer Herbert himself.
“It
appears that Carole James and Spencer Herbert need to get in touch with
reality,” she continued. “Lies, deceptions and bitchy politics have
no place in governing a province. Politicians who lie should not be tolerated,
nor elected.
“Of
course this leaves British Columbians with little choice during this election:
either the B.C. Fiberals or the New Delusional Party—what a tragic
dilemma for British Columbians!”
Kari Simpson and Terry O’Neill, former editor of BC
Report newsmagazine, can be heard Tuesdays
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at www.RoadkillRadio.com
Contact: Kari Simpson, (604)
514-1614
