2018 Ontario PC Leadership Race

[Videodrome]

https://www.cp24.com/news/doug-ford-says-he-is-considering-ontario-pc-leadership-run-1.3778963

Doug is "considering' it.

Steve Paikin‏Verified account@spaikin
major development in @OntarioPCParty leadership race: mayor @JohnTory getting tons of pressure to run as the consensus candidate, especially by those who don't want doug @fordnation as leader. am told if tory's in, @C_Mulroney & @RodPhillips01 wouldn't join. #onpoli

Ok...

 

[christiesplits]

No way Tory runs for the leadership. He's a shoe in for winning re-election as mayor. Why jeopardize a second term with the prospects of sitting in the opposition benches?

 

[animatronic]

No way Tory runs for the leadership. He's a shoe in for winning re-election as mayor. Why jeopardize a second term with the prospects of sitting in the opposition benches?

This smacks of drumming up fake enthusiasm by the PCPO and Tory's mayoral election team. Tory would be nuts to walk away from a second term.

 

[Palma]

That’s the thing, 1 more term vs if got the PC spot possibly 2 more terms, plus he can re write his history from always loosing to not only becoming mayor of Toronto but premier of Ontario. How many can say that?

 

[Videodrome]

Cristina Tenaglia @cristina_CP24
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Mayor @JohnTory says there have been inquiries re him running for #PCLeadership but he is not running. #onpoli

He's not running.

 

[BurlOak]

I don't know if anyone views him as a serious contender, but Tony Clement is out.

Tony Clement‏Verified account@TonyclementCPC 5h5 hours ago
In answer to numerous inquiries I’m confirming that I’m staying in federal politics, BUT I’m not disinterested in the health and the success of the Ontario PCs. We need change in Queen’s Park and i will do my part! #onpoli @OntarioPCParty

 

[salsa]

This smacks of drumming up fake enthusiasm by the PCPO and Tory's mayoral election team.

Much like the Opera Wimfrey noise that turned out to be hot air.

 

[Videodrome]

So, the same guy who helped run the far right Rebel Media is on Mulroney's campaign.

Also, Tory confirmed that he is sticking to municipal politics.

 

[Videodrome]

Doug Ford hired the sneaky Russians!

Laura Stone @l_stone
now
#Breaking Rick Dykstra stepping down as Ontario PC president

Well now!

 

[SunriseChampion]

So, the same guy who helped run the far right Rebel Media is on Mulroney's campaign.

Who? I'm assuming you don't mean Levant as you said "helped run" as opposed to "is".

 

[Videodrome]

No, Hamish Marshall, who is also running the 2019 campaign for the CPC.

 

[King of Kensington]

I don't know if anyone views him as a serious contender, but Tony Clement is out.

Wonder what he meant exactly by "numerous."

 

[SunriseChampion]

Interesting. Is he the bloke who left Rebel Media because he found it to have gone too far in some of its editorialising?

 

[SunriseChampion]

This is bad... report filed with Ottawa police in 2014.

Rick Dykstra quit as Ontario PC Party president after Maclean’s questioned him about a woman’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her in 2014—an allegation the federal Conservatives knew about when they let him run in the 2015 election.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/...stra-resigns-after-sexual-assault-accusation/

I have to question why any serious political party let itself be played by a group of guys who were in their late 20s or older and referred to themselves as "frat boys".

That's what we call man-child behaviour.

 

[Videodrome]

Interesting. Is he the bloke who left Rebel Media because he found it to have gone too far in some of its editorialising?

You are thinking of Brian Lilley. Marshall was part of the Rebel's founding, though I have seen people defend him as someone who had no input into the actual content that was published.