And Bradley also spoke on mass media. We asked him to comment on the fact that one of the candidates for leader doesn't like to give interviews. As is his practice, John Saldivar didn't speak to us during yesterday's convention, and didn't show up after for an exit interview either.
Bradley - who has long been a champion of the media's right and duty to question public officials - wouldn't speak specifically about Saldivar's standoffish relationship with the media, but he did speak in general terms:
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"John Saldivar has never been someone to engage the media, we can only get interviews from him occasionally."
Hon. Darrell Bradley, President of the Senate
"A political person should never deny interviews. It's a vestige of accountability."
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"He just denied everybody."
Hon. Darrell Bradley, President of the Senate
"I'm not saying him, I'm saying that an element of transparency, it is your ability to respond to a question and even difficult questions, but when the mic is there you have to respond and you have to find the answer, because you are accountable ultimately to the people and I think that is something that the party and our political culture needs to promote more, the expression of information, the sharing of ideas."
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