Many of you know me, maybe a little too well.
For those who don’t, from 2007 to 2011 I was the executive producer of the John Gormley Live Show.
Put another way, from 2007 to 2011 I was more or less a member of the Sask Party caucus.
Despite the insistence of non-partisanship, in no way has John Gormley and/or Rawlco Radio ever been independent of the Sask Party - they are one and the same. I call it State Radio for a reason: the Rawlinson family has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Sask Party while the Sask Party government has spent untold millions of your tax dollars on the Rawlinson family radio businesses.
I started there in February 2007, when the Saskatchewan NDP government was in its death throes. When I met Brad Wall the first time at the station, he was still Leader of the Opposition.
And he was tiny.
Flanked by a baby-faced Everett Hindley, whose one and only job before becoming Saskatchewan’s Minister of Heath was carrying Wall’s briefcase, what struck me immediately was their diminutiveness. To be fair though, in hindsight, they also projected something that did seem sorta like humility.
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