It took me three days to draw out yesterday's JSVB entry. One reason was that I had an alternate version in mind. Here, I depict the piñata that represents the bounty of goodies that would spill forth if BC Hydro was taken apart into pieces and privatized like BC Rail was. Instead of Premier Christy "C.C." Clark taking her swings, I have her ever-energetic Energy Minister Rich Coleman attempting to eliminate the piñata by ripping it off the ribbon and eating it whole. Say what you will about Minister Coleman, I am sure he enjoys a sweet, sweet plum as much as any other BC Liberal politician.
The trick to Christy Clark's form of leadership, and what sets her apart from her predecessor Gordon Campbell, is her willingness to allow the Ministers in her Cabinet to run the province as they please. Fire the BC Auditor General John Doyle! You're fired! No, wait, we call mulligans! You're hired for another term, won't that be fun? (John Doyle, a decent, conscientious politician, left us for a job in Australia. Australia: about as far away from here as you can get and not be on the Moon.) Let's get a mega-casino in Surrey! Wait, a referendum has it that 92% of residents do not want a casino! Let's do it anyways! (The Liberals flip-flopped again and have put the casino plans on the back shelf for now.) Let's force everybody to get a smart meter! No, gosh, it turns out we don't need them as much as we thought! But maybe we do! We'll just wait for now until someone tells us what our opinion should be! At least we have our pensions!
Although Rich Coleman has the look about him that he could keep political cartoonists working for decades, and although I find it personally very humorous to see a depiction of him trying to eat a piñata, it just does not seem right to get this sketch into finished form. The best pose for Minister Coleman wrecks the best pose for Premier Clark, and the whole composition is a bit problematic. Note how I try out different arm positions for C.C. at once. As long as you keep yesterday's cartoon in your head, this one seems to keep its cohesion. Even so, I didn't have a strong caption in mind, and unless the cartoon can stand solid on its own, a good caption helps to tie all of the elements together, or so I believe. I'll leave this one unfinished, and wait to see what comes out of the election hustings for the next few weeks.
See yesterday's partner image to this one on JSVB by clicking here.
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