Wednesday, October 15, 2003  
NDP Party Communications officer looses his job over a cartoon in bad taste.

:: Posted by max @ 10/15/2003 09:39:00 PM
Co: Journalista



In Saskatchewan a political cartoon passed around among politicians and political leaders in the New Democrat Party [NDP] depicting their chief rival, the Saskatchewan Parties leader Elwin Hermanson as a Nazi prison guard herding NDP ‘sympathizers’ into a cattle car.



The author of the cartoon, NDP communications co-ordinator Carlo Binda, resigned Monday and another official was fired over his role in the matter. Hermanson, head of the Saskatchewan Party, said Calvert expressed regret during a cell phone call. "I just told the premier that I accept his apology and that my feeling was actions speak louder than words," Hermanson said. Earlier the same day, Calvert apologized on a Regina radio show to Hermanson and the Jewish community. "There is nothing funny about it," Calvert said.



In the drawing, Hermanson is dressed in a military uniform with the Saskatchewan Party "S" on his collar. He is holding a long list and calling out names. He calls out for "NDP sympathizer 2,003" to a woman who is wearing a bandanna, carrying a mop and wearing an NDP armband. "But I just wash floors!" she protests.



Read more on this at The Toronto Star, and from Colby Cosh

    
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