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Some context for Unprinipled Bastard

The Tyee provides an excellent backgrounder on why the BC public is so angry at UB's defection. It appears the BC Liberal party put a whole lot of eggs into the Emerson basket.

From his reaction, it appears that he won the election on his own, so all of those campaign workers were, I guess, just riding on his coattails.

The same site also has a handy
collection of prime UB quotes over the last year or so. They call them 'moral outrages'. I don't know what phrase I would use, but it would be more, uh, fecal.