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If the NDP’s spin doctors had spun me any harder last week I might have struck oil — such was their fierce determination to attack the B.C. Green party.

Yes, the Greens. Not Christy Clark’s governing Liberals, though they’re throwing the kitchen sink at them, too.

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What had the NDP in such an anti-Green tizzy? It was a speech by Green party candidate Mark Neufeld, a high-school teacher who did a bad impression of Martin Luther King Jr. in a campaign speech.

Neufeld said he was trying to honour the civil-rights legend by imitating his famous “I’ve seen the promised land” speech. I believe him, though he clearly went over the top with a U.S. southern preacher accent.

Neufeld apologized and that was that. But the New Democrats kept pushing the story as something worthy of more than just another blip in the news cycle.

The NDP pitched any number of new angles: Maybe Neufeld should quit as the Green candidate in the NDP-held riding of Saanich South, near Victoria. Maybe Green party Leader Andrew Weaver should fire him.