Thursday, May 06, 2010

Cutting her Loose

It's official: Tories drop Guergis as riding candidate

The Conservative Party's National Council has bounced Helena Guergis as the nominated candidate for Simcoe-Grey, CTV News has learned.

She was informed of the decision Wednesday afternoon, as was her riding association, CTV Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported.

Sources told CTV News that Guergis was removed as a candidate because Conservatives are concerned an election could be called at any moment, and they need to have nominated candidates in all 308 ridings.


You know, that explanation would be a lot more believable if they weren't still over 100 candidates short of a full 308-riding slate.

I understand why they booted Guergis from Cabinet. And I can see the argument that she be removed from caucus while the RCMP investigates her. But to strip her nomination before seeing what the RCMP probe unearths?

Something just doesn't add up, and I suspect there may be more to this story than we've heard so far (and lord knows we've heard a lot so far).

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posted by calgarygrit at 7:02 PM

7 Comments:

  • She's a douche and no one likes her, it's not that hard to figure out.

    By Blogger Alison, at 7:49 PM  

  • Even if she is cleared of any wrong doing, she remains unpopular within caucus so why have her stick around? Dropping her now as the candidate seems to be the next logical step.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:56 PM  

  • I was going to say, dan, you seem to be expecting a rational and public answer for a harper decision... you should know better than that.

    By Anonymous Luke, at 12:09 AM  

  • Whether she's done anything wrong or not, she's clearly bad news for the brand. It's hard to blame Harper for wanting to be rid of her.

    What's hard to fathom is why he ever put someone with the appallingly bad judgment to marry Rahim Jaffer in cabinet.

    By Blogger Reality Bites, at 11:16 AM  

  • Haha too bad Guergis

    By Anonymous Snickers, at 2:25 PM  

  • At least Rob Anders is safe.

    By Anonymous ace, at 10:33 AM  

  • Maybe b/c she crossed the line? She let Rahim Jaffer use her gov't provided blackberry and email address for his own business purposes. While that may not be illegal, it's stupid and there's only so much stupid Harper could take.

    Plus it sends a message to any other MPs out there without much cost to Harper -- the message: if you make this gov't look dumb, unethical, or both, you're done.

    By Anonymous Peter Jay, at 2:29 PM  

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