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There’s an old saying in politics: When you’re in a hole, stop digging.

Unfortunately for Premier Christy Clark, when it came to last week’s bizarre, backfiring “hacking” saga, not only did she not stop digging — she also got behind the controls of a backhoe and started excavating.

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By the time Friday rolled around, Clark had dug a pit in the political mud so deep there was only one humiliating way to crawl out: apologize to John Horgan for saying the NDP tried to criminally hack the B.C. Liberal Party website.

“I have no problems saying ‘sorry’ because I made a mistake and I shouldn’t have jumped to those conclusions,” Clark said.

Actually, she had big problems saying “sorry” to the NDP leader because she had plenty of opportunities to apologize earlier — but didn’t. Christy Clark is not the apologizing type.

So she kept digging deeper.

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The whole thing started when I was tipped off by independent MLA Vicki Huntington that the private information of B.C. citizens had been publicly posted on the Liberal website — a clear violation of B.C.’s privacy laws.