My political life is a disaster, but that doesn't stop my brain from functioning... more or less.

So to summarise: William McBeath, the same one who glosses over the economy in Germany does realise that my campaign utterly failed to file its return for the 2004 election.

I had hoped to apologise when I knew for certian that I had the problem fixed / doomed forever + moved to Bermuda, but it's been thrust in my face for having the temerity to call the nominated Conservavtive candidate a hypocrite in so many words while speaking as a private citisen, something I trust I should still have the right to do under a Harper government, regardless the spin-monkeys trying to bury me in the concrete of my own incompetence. Willie boy decided to mention that I was 'not without sin,' with which I cannot disagree. However I never attacked another candidate for improper ability to conform with Elections Canada guidelines, rather I attacked them for thier intellectual hypocracy (you might notice my indignation that, under Anne McLellan's ministry, Sinclair Stevens was tear gassed as an observer at the FTAA conference in Quebec City, or perhaps Grit complicity in the hate speech laws, to realise that I am nearly as thouroughly opposed to the Grits as I am the Cons), attacking the Fiberals on corruption while the Cons are still owing David Orchard $70K (That's for another post) or calling for a five year lobbyist ban while you went straight to the leadership of the CA from the head of the National Citizens Coalition, a group formed to fight the socialisation of medicine (AKA Medicare) And who either is blind to his own career path, believes that it is conducive to corruption, or just doesn't care, when he proposes a five year ban on those in govt. from crossing over into lobbying. (A rule I object to, though will likely never directly reap the fruit of). Furthermore, if Mr. Harper doesn't believe the head of the NCC is a lobbying job, then the definition of lobbyist is too narrow.

[Citation removed due to compliance of William McBeath to request to remove offending section]

I am sorry to inform Mr. Mc Beath that my campaign consisted of two individuals. Myself and my agent Christopher Murrie, both of whom were delegates of David Orchard at the 2003 PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE leadership convention. I guess Mr Mc Beath would call us fans, much in the same way that Mr. Mc Beath is a Laurie Hawn Fan, maintaining a link to his blog stongandfree.blogspot.com whereas I would call us a couple of committed nationalists, in over our heads when it came to running a parliamentary campaign. The candidate suffers the consequences of a misfiled return that the agent bears legal responsibility for issuing, mainly because the law would like to retain the pretension that the candidate is his/her own person. This is just and I am prepared to suffer whatever consequences may come, even the statutory crushing of my Walter Mitty fantasy of the dream of a candidate's ascension to the prime ministership. If that is the case I can serve even more freely as the concience of the concience of the nation.

However, I am still a citizen and I consider myself entitled to pass judgement on those that go before me in the name of honesty and utter transparancy, including Laurie Hawn, Megan, McMaster, and yes, the tear gasing, cudgel swinging, landslide Annie. I would love to see nothng more that Laurie Elected... IF it meant that he served as defence critic. But of course that would displace long term lobbyist Gordon O'Connell. Who incedentally could use the time to prepare for his next appearance on Goldhawk Live. As a few weeks ago, Gordon was prime for a slashing attack on the Conservative policy to zero rate part of the price of gasoline and seven rate the remainder.

People have the right to know if their candidate's a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. Crooks display intent. I'm a fool. I checked with the crowm prosecutors office and there are no charges pending againstt me. I called elections Canada in October of 2004, my failure to file was due to inadvertance, my failure to appeal was not registered, but it is mainly due to a reluctance of the lawyer to which I was referred to take the case filing for an extension, followed by complications my father's dog suffered on the verterenarians table, resulting in a sizeably increased bill, coupled to my lack of available funds to supply a retainer. (man, it reads even stupider than it sounds), on the same day that I was attempting to retain a lawyer for the filling of an appeal within the two week deadline of the failure to file. Really complicated and to a degree self imposed story that derailed my filing extension. My filing has been a rolling diaster, appropriately of my own making, but aided by the disaster that was my federal campaign. The grits take care of their own, hence the lbiera ability to file capaign returns. So, no William, my return of about a thousand pay as you go donations and expenses, +/- $100, failing to be filed is not the result of a Lieberal plot, as you well knew.

To the Canadian people I say this: Sorry. You'll make it up to the extent you see fit. Either through existing laws, or new laws, or thorugh your right to withold support for any future election bid I may pursue. (Gawd you gotta love elections.)

[Post edited to clean up the writing. I should have been in bed hours ago, but something kept me awake, and thus in a less collected state of mind then I usually am when writing my "typically verbose and overly-ambitious prose."]