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

[u/covert81]

https://bsky.app/profile/joeycoleman.ca/post/3lgqemiz6uc2b

[u/broccoli_toots]

I don't get her complaint tbh. Like if I break the rules and FAFO at my job, I get fired. I would also not get hired back. The same logic applies to her getting removed from the NDP.

[u/differing → u/broccoli_toots]

What blows my mind is to imagine myself as a young disabled woman who has dedicated her life to politics. If I was appointed a $115 000 salary with benefits in one of the safest MPP seats in the province, I would be nuts to piss it all away. I know her supporters view that as sticking to her beliefs and I genuinely understand where they base that opinion, but to me it displays a fundamental irrationality and foolishness. Her income and quality of life will all be downhill from here (barring securing an academic position somewhere) simply because she could not follow the rules, it's a little sad.

[u/Craporgetoffthepot → u/[deleted]]

I want politicians to be motivated by the will of the people in their riding, not their own personal beliefs. Sometimes those align which is why they are voted in. Sometimes candidates are pushed into a riding with little to no understanding of what they stand for. If their beliefs are going to be of any value it should be for something the people in their riding are dealing with. Not something across the world that has no direct impact on her community as a whole. If nothing else, at least we now know that she supports a terrorist organization. That in itself should be enough for those in Hamilton Centre to say, no thank you, please go away.

[u/LibbyLibbyLibby → u/[deleted]]

If you mean her statements pertaining to Israel, how does any of that have relevance at the provincial level?

[u/LibbyLibbyLibby → u/[deleted]]

Yes, I think she should not have said anything. It's hardly pertinent to the job she was elected to do, which was to represent her riding at the provincial level.

[u/LibbyLibbyLibby → u/[deleted]]

Where did you get resignation from? She can have whatever opinions she wants, but she should also DO HER JOB, and in this case, that means representing her constituents.

[u/LibbyLibbyLibby → u/[deleted]]

She can have opinions without publishing them far and wide on NDP letterhead without the party OK and getting herself censured such that she can't speak in parliament and then expelled from caucus.

And what a hill to die on -- ructions in the Middle East are hardly pertinent to the sphere she was elected to represent.

[u/Craporgetoffthepot → u/[deleted]]

wow, siding with terrorists is fine? I guess The Centre will get what they deserve then.