The Tea Party North apparatchiks were in high dudgeon, yesterday, that we had drawn attention to the fact that their law-and-order stunts were highly suspicious – particularly their fondness for GPS bracelets, when (a) the police had said the bracelets won’t work, at all, and (b) the producer of same was a big old Tory contributor, one even identified in their Changebook.  Their anger, I thought, was a bit odd.

Now we all know why.  Eventually, in politics, all things become clear.

“A Leamington mom who spent months with nine others protesting when a convicted sex offender moved next to their neighbourhood elementary school is accusing Tory Leader Tim Hudak of using their group for political gain.

Cynthia Raheb said before Hudak made a campaign stop in Leamington Wednesday, a PC spokesman contacted them Monday.

A group member was asked if they would support and stand with the PC leader for the media while he reiterated his promise to make the provincial government’s sex-offender registry public and to outfit sexual and other violent offenders with GPS bracelets.

After a group meeting, the 10 moms decided against the idea.

Wednesday morning, at a Leamington community centre, Hudak posed in a photo with six people who were described on CBC’s website as “a group of parents in Leamington, Ont., who protested after they learned a convicted sex offender lived in their neighbourhood.”

However, Raheb said she doesn’t know who the people are and that they never protested with their group.

She was shocked.

“To have somebody do that behind our backs really presents the issue of how honest and how far they will go to implement what they’re saying,” a livid Raheb said. “I mean how much can you trust them at this point now?”

Raheb said this has dramatically changed her attitude toward the Conservatives.“

 

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That’s what Ontario NDP Andrea Horwath said.  That’s a quote. Then, this afternoon, Toronto Star veteran Richard Brennan spotted this in Ottawa.

Bottom line?  Either Horwath didn’t mean what she said, or her followers don’t listen to her.  Neither possibility is helpful to her prospects.

Personally, I’m interested in how widespread this distasteful practice is.  If you spot another example of an NDP campaign trying to profit (politically or otherwise) on the passing of Jack Layton, let me know in comments or at wkinsella@hotmail.com.  Then I’ll post what you find.

Oh, and Andrea?  This is one of those reasons why so many regard your leadership as a great big disappointment.

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TORONTO, Sept. 14, 2011 /CNW/ – In the ‘a photo is worth a thousand words’ department comes this photograph, taken this afternoon at the Albion Hotel in Guelph.  It shows the Ontario PC media bus in a spot where it clearly shouldn’t be.

On page 32 of the PC platform, Tim Hudak declares that Ontario PCs “support one law for everyone.”  That’s a quote.

As with the Ontario PC’s intolerant anti-newcomer policy, Tim Hudak thinks some Ontarians are more equal than others.

Image with caption: “One law for everyone? (CNW Group/Ontario Liberal Party)”. Image available at:http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20110914_C3413_PHOTO_EN_3300.jpg

 

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Felt like re-posting it.  Here it is.

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Jason is Tim Hudak’s legislative director, and one of his main spokespeople.  Can anyone tell me what he is saying/implying about Jim, who has been one of my best friends for 30 years?

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Fratboy Tim had a “tough on crime” stunt this morning in Leamington. Here’s what he didn’t talk about. It’s his real crime plan.

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Somewhere, Benedict Baldy is pausing to reflect, this morning.

What’s it all mean, Virginia? It means he’s in trouble. In urban centres – Toronto, obviously, but also Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Windsor and so on – his anti-“foreigner” nativism has hurt him, big time. He’s moved off of that, and now he’s going to start targeting Horwath. She’s in his rear view mirror, and closer than he’d like.

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Andrea Horwath ordered her candidates to stop trading on Jack Layton’s name. Good for her. That was the right thing to do.

And then, tonight, here was Cheri Di Novo on TVO, wearing a Jack Layton button. I guess she didn’t get the message.

H/T GritChik

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We’re having an okay couple of days.  So what does some right-wing asshole do?  He/she puts a piece of personalized hate mail in my mother’s mailbox.  She lives alone, in another city, and is near 80.  She called me, and she was upset.

So…we’re putting up security cameras at her place, now.  But – here’s a promise – if you go back, tough guy, I’m going to put you through a meat grinder, I swear to God.

That’s a promise.

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