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What's the future for the Conservative Party?

Videodrome said:
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/ne...lobeandmail.com&click=sf_globe&service=mobile

Well now...
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The second shoe just dropped, and it appears to be a woman's...
New concerns emerge over Conservative leadership voting process
Daniel Leblanc, Robert Fife AND Laura Stone
OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail

Published Sunday, Jun. 04, 2017 7:17PM EDT
An official from the Kellie Leitch campaign is raising new concerns over the voting process used in the recent Conservative leadership race, fuelling questions over Andrew Scheer’s razor-thin victory.

Last week, members of Conservative MP Maxime Bernier’s team publicly called on the party to explain a 7,466-vote discrepancy in the final ballot count. The Conservative Party said 141,362 voters were counted, but the list of members who voted, as provided to the various leadership camps, included only 133,896 names.

Over the weekend, a senior member of Ms. Leitch’s campaign raised questions over the exact role played by officials at the accounting firm Deloitte during the process. While Conservative Party president Scott Lamb said last week the results of the race were “audited,” former Conservative MP Bob Dechert said the level of oversight was far lower.

“There was nothing like an audit-level, independent review and oversight of the procedures,” said Mr. Dechert, a lawyer who supervised the voting process as Ms. Leitch’s main counsel during the race.

A copy of the deal between the Conservative Party and Deloitte shows that the firm was not specifically tasked with auditing the vote. Instead, Deloitte was asked on voting day to “monitor” the count room, “observe” the counting process and “recalculate and reconcile” the results. [...]
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new...ve-leadership-voting-process/article35199810/
 
Ritz is crackers...

And here's the proof:
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Videodrome said:
I believe he is officially retired, so spineless Scheer won't comment on the issue.
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It's a good point, I was just Googling to find if his seat is officially open. I couldn't find that it is, only his quote of "not returning for the Fall sitting".

So expect to see some flak in the papers over broken crackers...

And speaking of "crackers":
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In 2008, in the midst of an outbreak of listeriosis that killed about 20 people, he drew widespread condemnation for *cracking* a joke that the political damage from the issue was "like a death by a thousand cuts. Or should I say cold cuts."

He later apologized for the remark, which Harper's office had called tasteless and completely inappropriate.

Ritz had informed Scheer of his planned retirement earlier this summer as the Conservative leader was in the midst of putting together his shadow cabinet.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gerry-ritz-leaving-politics-1.4269496

Puttin' On the Ritz
Fred Astaire
Have you seen the well to do
Up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare
With their noses in the air
High hats and narrow collars
White spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime
For a wonderful time
Now, if you're blue
And you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types who wear a day coat
Pants with stripes and cutaway coat
Perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super duper
Come, let's mix where Rockefeller's
Walk with sticks or "umbrellas"
In their mitts
Puttin' on the Ritz
Now, if you're blue
And you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on…
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying mighty hard to look like super duper
Mr. Cooper
Come, let's mix where Rockefeller's
Walk with sticks or "umbrellas"
In their mitts
Puttin' on the Ritz
Songwriters: Irving Berlin
Puttin' On the Ritz lyrics © Imagem Music Inc
 
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It's a good point, I was just Googling to find if his seat is officially open. I couldn't find that it is, only his quote of "not returning for the Fall sitting".
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Wikipedia still lists him as a sitting MP, but that isn't the most reliable source.
 
Videodrome said:
Wikipedia still lists him as a sitting MP, but that isn't the most reliable source.
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I can't find any reference otherwise. In which case, if he still *holds* the seat, but is absent the House, Scheer can't fluff it off. Harper took a lot of flak (much of it deserved) but at least he had the demeanour to disown Ritz' earlier comments from the Party.

Scheer purports to pride himself on 'correctness'. We'll see...
 
Well he was saving his bacon...but he just wasn't cool enough.

As to cooking his own bacon...he did state "Barbie" which is Oz for Bar-B-Que, but now he's getting a grilling. What a drip...
 
The Gerry Ritz comment last night was appalling. Some pretty stupid stuff gets said in politics, on all sides, but that takes the cake. Ritz is still the MP, and Scheer needs to act delusively decisively here.
 
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Mercedes Stephenson‏Verified account@CTVMercedes now36 seconds ago
Carr ignoring questions from Scheer, keeps demanding apology to House frm Ritz over his Barbie tweet & for Scheer to denounce JT #cdnpoli
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Cormac Mac Sweeney‏Verified account@cmaconthehill now1 minute ago
Scheer doesn't respond to those requests and sticks to questions about the Liberal tax changes.
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Some "leadership" from Andrew Scheer...

EDIT:

Bruce Campion-Smith
@yowflier

.@AndrewScheer calls Ritz's Barbie comment "demeaning" and "inappropriate" and says he will reach out to @cathmckenna himself.
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Such leadership...
 
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