Carrots and sticks

"I don't need you. I've been elected. But you need me. I'm sitting on the public chest, and not one red cent will come out of it for Ferryland unless Greg Power is elected!" — Joey Smallwood, 1949, as attributed by Harold Horwood, Joey, Stoddart, 1989, pp. 164-165.


"Since the PC government got in, I might as well say it, we never got nothing in Harbour Grace... I mean, Mr. Sweeney is the member for this district, but I mean with a PC government in, he can't do nothing." — Harbour Grace Town Councillor Tom Short, May 22, 2007, as reported by the CBC.