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The Great Battle of New Brunswick, the defining internecine feud of this campaign, soldiered on into another skirmish this week, when the leaders of a mass defection that wasn’t sued their old party for defamation.

It hasn’t been a vintage campaign year, 2019. If it were wine, you might call it corked. No soaring rhetoric. No big plans or bold characters. Just a full cast of also-rans limping for the line. (It’s the kind of race you’re sad to discover that someone has to win.)

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Given all that, you might see what’s happened in New Brunswick as kind of quaint. Next to all the third-party attack ads, the depressing own-goals, and mind-numbing panders, a little local feud feels almost refreshing. It’s the palate cleanser of political scandals. Just don’t say that to Jonathan Richardson or his mom.

The Richardsons are the mother-son political duo behind New Brunswick’s aborted progressive schism. They tried to lead a great wave of former NDP candidates over to the Green Party in early September only to discover, after the fact, that what they had was more of a trickle.