CBC MetroMorning host Matt Galloway takes on Tim Hudak about the latter’s homophobic, desperate pamphlet.
It’s pretty extraordinary. One of the most brutal journalistic poundings of the year. You can listen to it here.
Conservatives React to Hudak’s Desperate, Dishonest, Homophobic Flyer
Toronto – – Prominent Conservatives are reacting to Tim Hudak’s desperate, dishonest, and homophobic flyer.
John Tory, former PC leader, CFRB, October 3, 2011:
“I can’t imagine, first of all, what strategy this embodies in terms of this late in an election…And secondly, it seems to go against everything certainly that we’re supposed to be explaining, and getting kids to embrace and understand. They don’t have to be accepting for their own personal lives, but just accepting of the fact that people are different. This just seems inflammatory.”
Jaime Watt, former co-chair, Ontario PC campaigns, Power and Politics, October 3, 2011:
“I can’t explain it for the life of me…I don’t want to cause my friends that are running that campaign any trouble today, but I can’t understand this, and I certainly can’t understand the rationale that would actually take them off the agenda and have this a media issue for the last push of the campaign.”
Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun columnist and former Hudak PC candidate, via Facebook:
“I am so disgusted with today’s comments by Willowdale PC candidate Vince Agovino that he would fight to keep ‘queer issues’ out of Catholic schools. Is this man running in the U.S. Bible Belt of the U.S. or in Toronto. I thought we’d moved beyond such nonsense.”
Gerry Nicholls, Conservative Commentator and former head of the National Citizens Coalition with Stephen Harper, AM640, October 3, 2011:
“Probably not the kind of thing that the conservatives want to be talking about right now…This is not the kind of the thing that they want talking about a couple of days before the election because it kind of plays to the liberal Narrative that these guys are to the right of the political spectrum…I`m surprised they did…”
Jim Richards, CFRB, October 3, 2011:
“If you believe that this is the curriculum, you’re too stupid for me to vote for you. You are absolutely too stupid for me to vote for you. You know that that’s not the curriculum; You know that that is not the curriculum. How am I supposed to vote for someone that is that dumb? How am I supposed to vote for someone who is that stupid? You want to run this province? And you’re that much of an ignoramus?”
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What’s it mean? At the risk of repeating myself, if you’re an Ontario Liberal, it means:
Now stop reading this web site! Get out and work!
UPDATE: Ditto this. Get to work, Grits! Never stop! Campaign like we are way, way behind!
If questioned – and he will make it very hard for any reporter to question him on abortion today, believe me – Hudak will say it isn’t a priority for him. But he’s never renounced his promise to defund abortion.
Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, you deserve to know where the leaders stand on this issue. By vacillating, by dodging microphones, Hudak should be condemned by both sides. Both sides – and there are good people on both sides of the issue – deserve to hear Hudak finally say where he stands.
Here and here and here and here and here is some of the commentary on this issue, over the past few months.
And here is Hudak’s position, in black and white, which has never changed:
That isn’t me saying that. It’s the media.
Man, what a disgrace this guy is.
