Inside the P.C.
Convention Hall, on Saturday, Progressive Conservatives did their very best to
display the intense excitement for which delegated leadership conventions enjoy a special distinction. As the meeting
headed into the second ballot Tories must have felt that, finally, the acrimony
of the Dunderdale leadership and the Frank Coleman fiasco had passed into
history.
But when
the second ballot was counted and a one vote lead by Paul Davis still did not afford
him victory, Tories must surely have felt under a curse. Luckily, the third ballot confirmed what the
second intended. An incorrect and
untimely interpretation of a ‘majority’ came close to splitting a Party already
demoralized.
Mr. Davis
deserves our congratulations; his two competitors, John Ottenheimer and Steve
Kent, can be proud of their participation in an important endeavor; after all, political
parties are the foundation of our democratic system. Even when the process
delivers a leader of questionable choice, but functions without self-interested
interference, we are at least left with the confidence the system is still
viable.
Whether
Paul Davis is also Danny’s man will eventually become clear.
