Former MLA & Cabinet Minister Bronwyn Eyre tried to explain the Sask Party to itself

Almost like it's only occurring to her now that had she bothered to listen to anyone outside of her partisan bubble, she might have kept her job.

I’ve been writing about the Sask Party’s top donors in 2023 (once again at least two Saskatchewan law firms are top 10 corporate donors - wonder why?) as well as an analysis of 2023-24 financials for Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations.

I feel the need to get something meaty and well-researched out to you soon.

I will.

That said, I was forced set all those weighty matters aside when this gem came across my desk couple days ago.

First of all, how is this a “re-examination”? Did she conduct a first examination?

Journalism!

Anyway.

Clearly still reeling from a breakup she didn’t see coming, Eyre: Why I lost would have been a far more accurate headline.

The fact Bronwyn Eyre, Saskatchewan’s former minister of literally everything, is not going away quietly is no surprise. Neither is the fact she was the first to get vocal and kick off the campaign autopsy. Still, did I ever laugh, counting off the less than three weeks it had taken for the first disgruntled, unemployed former Sask Party MLA to start pointing fingers.

The fact Eyre chose the Western Standard to patronize a fifth-term government party with her advice on winning is, in itself, a choice. Why not hit a much broader audience across Saskatchewan via her old broadcast stomping grounds, Rawlco State Radio? Or Postmedia, which inexplicably gave Eyre miles and miles of column space, for years, in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix?

Perhaps the question is this: would those media outlets consider running the viewpoint of a freshly unelected, longtime Sask Party Cabinet Minister, expressing dissent?

Or would doing so put their slice of the Sask Party’s multi-million dollar advertising pie in jeopardy?

Guess which matters more?

But who knows… maybe Eyre deliberately chose to disseminate her advice through an independent fringe media outlet with a marginal but hardcore partisan audience.

Like I said, it was a choice.

Regardless, what Eyre wrote was fascinating.

It’s the first real glimpse we’ve had, beyond the ongoing Randy Weekes saga, of the psyche behind a political party that seems destined to control the future of this province for at least another generation.