Failing to vet the candidates
Posted May 7, 2009 by Sacha Peter - Link
Category: Other Parties, Scandal
Comments (3)
BC Conservative candidate for Abbotsford South, Gurcharan Dhaliwal allegedly was convicted of possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, i.e. drug running.
I am surprised it took this long for one of the minor party candidates to surface as having a track record. My guess is that the BC Liberals held this in the bag as late as possible to try to discredit the BC Conservative Party. My other guess is that the BC Liberals and NDP have dirt on some of the 85 Green candidates (some of whom were hastily nominated to finish the complete provincial slate), but they’ve decided not to bother getting it to the media to reduce exposure to the party.
At this point, the BC Conservative party has one thing alone – their name – that they are riding the coattails of the federal Conservative Party of Canada with. If it wasn’t for this, they would be a complete non-entity.
Somewhere today I read that Stockwell Day has publicly distanced himself and the Federal Conservative Party from Hanni and his band of merry nutjobs. I should try and and post the link.
Here:
Mike Smyth
Unlike the NDP, the federal and provincial Conservative outfits are not formally affiliated. I’m told Campbell’s Liberals, worried about losing votes to the upstart provincial Tories, have pleaded with federal Conservatives to remind their supporters that the two parties are not linked.
Enter Conservative cabinet minister Stockwell Day, friend to B.C. Liberals everywhere.
“I’ve had it reported to me that some local supporters of the provincial [not federal] B.C. Conservatives are saying I’m supporting that party and its local candidates in the upcoming provincial election,” Day writes in a newspaper in his riding.
The BC Cons: Drug Dealers, crooked investors, racists and gay bashers. What a great group of candidates they have.