Ford named Ontario PC leader, Elliott cites 'serious irregularities' for not conceding
Announcement of Doug Ford’s win was delayed by more than 7 hours over ballot disputehttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...nservatives-pcs-new-leader-election-1.4571014
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The recent PC leadership race certainly ended under a cloud, but it's fair to say it began under a cloud as well, wouldn't y'all say? The method of Patrick Brown's ouster was far from clean. Of course, he's supposedly going forward with his court case against CTV (and it serves them bloody well right), but if I were him, I'd be far more interested in gaining revenge on the party insiders who were rumored to have organized his political hit to begin with. The question is: Who exactly were these people, and was Ford one of them?
At the time, I was doubtful that anyone in prominent political circles would care to cozy up to a small-time bullshit artist & no-neck bully boy like Dofo. Given how openly,
nakedly self-serving and untrustworthy Ford is, I just couldn't fathom anyone thinking he'd be an asset. I also, poor naïve darling that I am, assumed that the shitshow he and his pig brother made of Toronto, in which they turned the city into an international laughing stock, was still recent enough to dampen any enthusiasm he might have been able to raise. Likewise, I foolishly assumed that Brown was enough of a right wing creep to satiate the social conservative crowd. Silly me on that last point. I also forgot that to the reactionaries, Thug's uglier characteristics - the bullying, the cheating, the sleaze, the endless lying, the violence lurking just under the surface - were virtues to be worn as badges of honor.
If you get away with them, at least.
So, there was clearly a faction eager to push the party towards the far right, and to hell with electability. Given what a dog's dinner the liberals have made of things, electability probably wasn't even an issue, anyway. Not that it ever is with True Believers. But was Thug merely a beneficiary, or was he one of the schemers willing to eliminate Brown with these underhanded tactics? It's certainly in character for him. Elliott's already shut up about all the unpleasantness we witnessed at the end, but then, she (presumably) has a political career to salvage. Brown is under no such constraint, and if he decides to collect a few scalps in court apart from those in the "liberal" media, it could turn into quite the entertaining blood-letting. Especially if Ford is one of the people he goes after.
