Sycophant of the Month: October 2008

Total number of ProvGov press releases issued in October: 174 (-1 from September)

Total number with the phrase "Williams Government": 6 (-2 from September.)

Sycophancy index: 3.4% (-1.2% from September)

It was another fairly quiet month from a sycophancy perspective, with just six points scored all month.

From the start-of-the-month perspective, it was promising, with Tom Marshall putting one in on the first day. But then, from a things-slowing-down perspective, it was over a week before the second goal, courtesy Ross Wiseman. It looked like a things-picking-up perspective when Joan Burke nailed one the following day, but it would then be almost two weeks, from a quiet perspective, before she would get the next one in, her second for the month. From a false-hope perspective, Dianne Whalen knocked in another the next day, but the month ended up on an out-with-a-whimper perspective, as the only other score was Dave Denine’s on October 27th.

It’s a good thing, from a scorekeeping perspective, that Burke got that second, because every point this month was scored unassisted, with nothing to fall back on as a tie-breaker. So, from a back-to-back victory perspective, resuming the dominance she displayed from a September 2007 to April 2008 inclusive perspective, your October sycophant of the month is again Joan Burke. Congratulations!