Sun on Hudak: his leadership and his plan “fail”

Wow. Never thought I’d see something like this.

The Sun chain refuses to endorse Tim Hudak – they actually liken him to a cartoonish Mr. Bean – and say that, while they wanted to endorse him, they just couldn’t bring themselves to do it. He’s been a failure, they say.

Wow.


Bigoted, hateful pamphlet authorized by Hudaks PCs

This pamphlet is being circulated, tonight, in Brampton ridings.  As you can see at the bottom, it is expressly authorized by “the C.F.O. of the Ontario P.C. Party.”

Along with being hateful, the PC ad is completely false.  It is wrong.  It is B.S. The true facts are found here.

For a party that started the campaign attacking “foreign” workers, and is now ending it attacking “foreign” students, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.  But it’s pretty disgusting, nonetheless.  And it’s yet another reason why the Hudak PCs blew a near-20-point lead, I’d say.

 


In today’s Sun: choose wisely (everyone)

In a newsletter to clients, Cooper warned the Harper government it was literally in danger of repeating the deflationary policies that caused the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression.

She went on to say that the fiscal tightening promised by Harper and Flaherty could, in fact, lead to an economic “rout.”

If those chilling words don’t give investors, job hunters — and voters in P.E.I., Manitoba and Ontario — cause for reflection, nothing will. The decisions we make now will determine our economic future in the months and years ahead. And if we make the wrong decision — as Depression-era President Herbert Hoover did, Cooper noted, with rash fiscal belt-tightening — we could be plunged into another recession, or worse.

We have a choice here, and it’s an important one.


Flaherty and Hudak, looking for a hat trick

Jim Flaherty popped down to Toronto to heap praise of Tobacco Tim Hudak, this afternoon.

By endorsing him, Flaherty’s just kicked-started the “hat trick” story again.

Hat trick, you ask?  The video the Cons tried to suppress?

It’s August 2, 2011: Stephen Harper calls for a “hat trick” – that is, for the same Conservative cabal to run the country, the GTA and Ontario.

Download this video, and share it with others before voting day on October 6!  You can download the file here.

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Download also found here.


Will Tobacco Tim fire himself, and his Big Tobacco lobbyists?

Tobacco Tim: Prove You’re a Man of Your Word and Fire Yourself and Your Friends

Toronto – – If Tim Hudak is a man of his word, then he’s about to “fire” his campaign manager, his deputy campaign boss, at least one of his candidates, and himself.

That’s the only conclusion one can draw from Hudak’s pledge this morning that “if anyone did that on my campaign they’d be fired.”

The public record is clear and indisputable:  at every point, on every vote, Hudak has sided with Big Tobacco.  And his PCs are the only ones who opposed legislation that keeps tobacco away from children and opposed rules to stamp out tobacco advertising.

  • FACT: Tim Hudak voted against the Smoke Free Tobacco act. (Hansard)
  • FACT: Mark Spiro is Hudak’s campaign manager and his lobbying firm tried to stop tobacco warning labels. (cbc.ca, December 9, 2010)
  • FACT:  Hudak’s deputy campaign director, Chad Rogers, still lobbies for big tobacco. (Lobbyist Registry)
  • FACT:  One of Hudak’s star candidates and spokesman, Vic Gupta, has been a registered lobbyist against anti-smoking laws. (Lobbyist Registry)

So, when Tim Hudak says he’ll “fire” people for joking about cigarettes, will he start with himself and his closest aides who make their living off fighting warning labels and helping big tobacco advertise to Ontario kids?

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