The death remains a mystery
The following played on CBC Radio on Friday, Jan. 29, in response to a commentary earlier in the week by Bob Wakeham … My name is Ryan Cleary and I’m calling from St. John’s. I’d like to comment on Bob Wakeham’s commentary on Tuesday’s Morning Show. Wakeham’s topic was Bill Murray — the former bureaucrat at the centre of the House of Assembly spending scandal — and how he pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four of seven charges against him. With Bill Murray’s confirmation that’s he’s a crook, as Wakeham put it, there’s not much of any entrails left to that rotting corpse known as the spending scandal. I disagree. I think a good part of the spending scandal story has never been told — and will never BE told. Was Bill Murray the bureaucratic criminal mastermind who engineered the changes in the House of Assembly that led to the legislative rot? To the scandal we’re still going through? I don’t think so. Not a single politician — not a single member of various internal economy commissions — ...