Met with my Conservative riding association tonight around the kitchen table in my home. It was a casual thing, arranged yesterday.
An hour before the meeting I received a call from CTV asking if it was true I was about to quit the party, and if that was the nature of the secret, emergency gathering about to take place.
News at eleven…
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Enough with the blame Garth stuff going on here and in the media! Garth Turner has done nothing except calmly and correctly point out two GLARINGLY inconsistent applications of the Conservative campaign philosophy that Mr. Harper and WAY too many Conservative supporters are now choosing to ignore or make excuses for. There is NO…I repeat NO excuse that either Mr. Harper or any Conservative apologist can come up with that can justify or explain away the blatant and ugly misrepresentation Mr. Harper has engaged in with these two Cabinet appointments.
This issue is sending us all right back to the good ol’ PC vs. Reform Party days. As a lifelong Progressive Conservative supporter I swallowed the bitter Reform pill in the hope that it was the best solution to combat the federal Liberals. Now that they’re in power (albeit, just barely) I see that in fact nothing has changed and the Reformers are still content to try and push the Progressive’s out of they way.
As a result of this fiasco, we’ll all be back at the polls inside of a year. I hope Mr. Harper realizes that the Federal Accountability Act that he was so fond of flogging during the recent campaign now isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on and the ‘Conservative’ party will once again be relegated to opposition status (hopefully official this time).
Thank you Mr. Harper for at least coming clean and living up to ALL of the negative press you so successfully avoided during the campaign. Though secretly wary of you and your Reform Party past, I defended you to my friends, family and coworkers as the best chance this country had for its future. Quite frankly sir, you have embarrassed me and tens of thousands of Conservative supporters.
Shame on you for dressing down my MP simply because he has the courage to point out what is right.
I bet you are starting to feel like the celebrities do. One little bit of false reporting from a “tabloid” and kaboom, all hell breaks loose! Mildly amusing.
so Garth, with this Emerson issue hopefully behind us, what do you see as your priorities for the next 90 days?
Looking forward to your town hall meetings – Dynasi is on my way home from work – I hope to stop by.
one follow-up question – you seem to be able to post here pretty often – how do you do it? are you using some kind of mobile technology?
I’m everywhere. — Garth
If you’re in favour of legislation that requires sitting MPs to resign if they want to move from one Commons caucus to another, then what’s the principle behind it?
Dance with the girl ya brung, eh.
In that case, wouldn’t your principles mandate that you resign if you leave the Tory caucus?
Stick around, Garth. There’s sunshine ahead.
Have you been paying attention? — Garth
All I can say is I sure hope you’re not quitting the party. That would be a travesty. Besides, you said yourself in your posting yesterday that you’re no qiutter, and I believe that.
…of course, if they kicked you out of caucus, that would be another matter entirely, and an event that would make the Emerson/Fortier thing look like a minor inconvenience.
This won’t go away until Emerson quits or is fired out the door by the ethics commisioner .