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   Their own party is aiming at the Finance Minister to be thrown out.  How 'bout   
   we throw them   
   all out - especially those who would fall during the Recall campaign and force   
   byelections that   
   would topple the entire Campbell government?   
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   Vancouver Sun - September 2, 2010   
      
   Senior Liberal operative calls for Hansen to resign over HST   
      
      
   VICTORIA – The president of a B.C. Liberal cabinet minister's riding   
   association today called   
   for the resignation of Finance Minister Colin Hansen, saying recent   
   revelations over the HST   
   have severely damaged Hansen's reputation.   
   In a blog entry, Jordan Bateman said the “handling and implementation of the   
   HST has been one   
   blunder after another.”   
      
   Bateman added that Hansen's credibility is now “completely shot.”   
      
   “Every media outlet in British Columbia is churning out story after story on   
   the HST documents.   
   It certainly isn’t good news for the BC Liberals,” he wrote.   
      
   “It reaffirms the thought that Minister Colin Hansen should resign.”   
      
   The move is a rare and surprising break in solidarity within the B.C. Liberal   
   party, and comes   
   as the government is defending a new round of criticism over its handling of   
   the HST.   
      
   Bateman is the president of Housing and Social Development Minister Rich   
   Coleman's Fort   
   Langley-Aldergrove riding association. He is also a councillor in the Township   
   of Langley.   
      
   In an interview, Bateman reaffirmed his call for Hansen to resign.   
      
   “I support the party and I certainly support our MLA Rich Coleman. But this   
   HST has just been   
   mishandled from the very beginning,” said Bateman.   
      
   “It seems like every week there's more mistakes and more bizarre things that   
   occur and I just   
   don't think the finance ministry has the credibility now that it once had.”   
      
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