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I thought when I heard it first that it was just an urban myth but I have come across too many people who have experienced it first hand, or directly from voters.
First FG canvassers, and now FF canvassers, have been reporting over the last few days that voters in Laois-Offaly have been told by Parlon canvassers that they do not need to vote for FG to ensure the election of Enda Kenny as taoiseach. Bizarrely some PD canvassers have been telling voters that Parlon will support Kenny also!
According to what is apparently being said, people are being told that there is a real likelihood that Tom Parlon will be the only PD TD and that in that case he will vote for Kenny in the vote to nominate a taoiseach.
I dismissed it the first time I heard it, as being an urban myth. But now a number of canvassers and senior canvassing staff have been told explicitly by voters that they were told that by PDs on their doorstep. FFers have also been reporting back the strange phenomenon. It is so widespread that within all the main parties, the story has been reported back to headquarters level.
It raises two questions:
1. Are the PDs so worried for Parlon's seat that they would make such a bizarre claim on the doorsteps?
2. Do they really believe that their party is in danger of losing most if not all its seats, including Liz O'Donnell, Mary Harney and Michael McDowell?
Certainly FF and FG believe that the PDs are effectively finished, and will be lucky to hold on to two seats. Even McDowell's now looks shaky, with Harney's seen to be under major danger, and Liz O'Donnell's probably gone. The PDs organisationally say privately that things are looking bleak for the party. But are they so bleak they are willing to tell people in Laois-Offaly that Tom Parlon is likely to be the only PD left?
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Originally Posted by The Trinity Politick
Who is more smug? Parlon or a party believing that they own a seat?
