Tea Party Tim, Taunted
[Katie, it wasn’t the federal Liberals, BTW. It was us.]
Tea Party North: today’s headlines
Hudak’s Tea Party connections
New Tea Party link to Hudak campaign revealed
TORONTO, Sept. 1, 2011 /CNW/ – Tim Hudak’s campaign is importing their campaign strategy from the right wing extremist Tea Party movement, bringing in strategist Michael Prell.
Prell, the owner of Sterling Communications, sells himself as a “strategist for the Tea Party Patriots” and lists Hudak campaign manager Mark Spiro as his “best friend and business partner.” (Acknowledgements, Underdogma, BenBella Books, 2011)
Before joining the Hudak campaign, Prell worked with many Tea Party politicians, including recently receiving a book endorsement from Michelle Bachmann.
The extreme right wing Tea Party movement in the US is routinely exposed for lying, being incoherent, vacuous and deeply divisive.
Yesterday former PC Premier Ernie Eves decried that Hudak’s PCs are becoming “the Tea Party version of Ontario politics,” pointing to how Hudak and right wing extremist MPP Randy Hillier ousted long-time progressive Conservative MPP Norm Sterling.
As usual, Hudak tried to weasel out of responding to Eves’ charge.
Spotted at Tea Party Tim’s event just now
We don’t want no Tea Party politics here
Ernie Eves on Tim Hudak: you’ve brought the Tea Party to Ontario
Since the weekend, Hudak’s fart-catchers had been frantically scrambling to keep Ernie Eves’ incendiary speech under wraps. Or, failing that, they were desperately trying to persuade Hudak’s former boss to decline to repeat his condemnation of what the PC Party has become.
They failed.
So much for Timmy’s plan to get a week’s head start on the election, and some good coverage.
Ontario NDP leader loses her way, film at eleven
Or, a picture is worth thousands of lost NDP votes.
Tim Hudak’s PCs: lying like a rug
Angelo
Angelo isn’t just a friend, he’s one of my closest friends. He calls me his little brother, in fact. And I didn’t have a clue this was coming, not a clue, which is how it should be. I saw it on Twitter, like everyone else.
The Star has been exceedingly gracious about his departure, and Official Ottawa seems to be agog. What does it mean? Is it good for Angelo? Is it good for his new boss? There’s lots of buzz in political/media circles.
On Tuesday in the Sun, I will write about my friend, and perhaps tell Official Ottawa some things it didn’t know about Angelo. Or should.