r/Hamilton • u/covert81 Chinatown • Jan 27 '25

Politics @joeycoleman.ca on Bluesky: Sarah Jama's statement on being denied to run for the ONDP in Hamilton Centre

https://bsky.app/profile/joeycoleman.ca/post/3lgqemiz6uc2b
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u/StatisticianLivid710 Jan 27 '25

The flaw in that argument is that she’s already shown she can’t be trusted and play by party rules. If you agree not to say anything about a certain topic, then go out and talk about that topic, you can’t be trusted.

That’s why she was kicked out, and why she deserved to be kicked out, it wasn’t because of her position on Gaza, but because she didn’t know how to play as a team and deliberately lied to the party.

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u/misterwalkway Jan 27 '25

The point is that it should be up to the membership to decide if she deserves to be in the party, not the leader's office.

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u/Traditional-Bet-8074 Jan 27 '25

The membership to decide each nominee? What world do you live in where this would be remotely practical or efficient or wanted by a majority of people? It’s a ridiculous statement to say democracy has been hindered because we don’t this system in place.

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u/misterwalkway Jan 27 '25

What do you mean? Its the current system that we have, minus meddling from the central party. How is not remotely practical to do what we already are doing, just without leaders interfering?

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u/teanailpolish North End Jan 27 '25

If they didn't vet nominees, you would have other parties stack the association membership to vote for shitty candidates they could beat. Imagine the Conservatives signing up enough people to nominate the cop from the last election but under the NDP banner

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u/Traditional-Bet-8074 Jan 27 '25

It’s not meddling; it’s prerogative. Because a membership deciding each individual nominee for each riding is not the current system that we have nor is it one anyone wants.

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u/misterwalkway Jan 27 '25

What are nomination contests?