#bcpoli NDP insider calls me up and asks me to step down as Green candidate in OBGH. Talks about party being worried about Green support.
— Andrew Weaver (@AJWVictoriaBC) December 13, 2012
#bcpoli Talks about other ways I could be effective in an NDP government. Dangles the idea of my being Deputy Minister of the Environment
— Andrew Weaver (@AJWVictoriaBC) December 13, 2012
Those two tweets, from University of Victoria professor and the nominated BC Green Party candidate in Oak Bay-Gordon Head have created quite a little kerfuffle. The “NDP insider” that Weaver is referring to in those tweets is Michael Byers, a UBC political scientist who ran for the federal NDP in the last general election. Continue reading In his own words: BC Green Party candidate Andrew Weaver on allegations of political interference