CNN:
OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- A candidate to head Canada's opposition Liberal Party vowed Monday to stay in the leadership race despite reports that his campaign team had signed up dead people as members.Joe Volpe, who also hit the headlines for the wrong reasons in May after it emerged he had accepted large donations from children, acknowledged errors could have been made in "the hurly burly of recruitment" of members.
A couple of "ghosts" were stalking Volpe as he left a news conference in Ottawa. There was much speculation in the press as to the identity of the ectoplasmic visitors, and which opponent's campaign -- or even if the Conservatives -- had sent them.
But . . . what if they were . . . real? oooooOOOooooOOOOooooOOOOo
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BOB RAE’s GHOSTS?
The BIG question of the day is whose supporters were the GHOSTS chasing Joe Volpe today after his press conference about campaign tactics. See here:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060924/volpe_scandal_090625/20060925?hub=TopStories
As Paul Wells put it at http://weblogs.macleans.ca/paulwells/ :
“He shook visibly from fear, all the way, and well he should: if we had found out who sent him to do his anonymous work, it might well have stopped that person's leadership campaign in its tracks.”
Well, here is your guy. None other than:
RICHARD ZUSSMAN
Special Assistant,
Maurizio Bevilacqua,
Member of Parliament, Vaughan
Richard is also the hapless author of http://shawiniganhandshake.blogspot.com/ who was dumb enough to post pictures of him and his moronic cohort in costume BEFORE the cameras trained on Volpe as he exited.
Here is a picture of Richard so you can compare it to the file footage of Paul Wells jumping up on Wellington Street and ripping off his mask to uncover everything but his eyes.
http://www.queensjournal.ca/article.php?point=vol132/issue19/news/story1
Maurizio Bevilacqua, if you remember, is BOB RAEs Campaign Co-Chair, remember:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060814.wlibcandidl0814/BNStory/National/home
So the low tone of the current campaign has claimed another victim here. Did Zussman and partner go on their own accord to the conference or were they ON ORDERS of the Bob Rae Campaign and their boss MAURIZIO BEVILACQUA.
Maybe they should tell us.
Posted by Richard Zussman | September 25, 2006 7:51 PM
Posted on September 25, 2006 19:51
Liberal leadership candidates are starting to panic. Volpe juggernaut "just can't be stopped" says one Lib insider. Volpe has always been a dirty fighter. Ask Roland de Corneille, the sitting Liberal MP Volpe torpedoed in 1988.
Posted by neo | September 25, 2006 8:03 PM
Posted on September 25, 2006 20:03
Latest Liberal leadership news has Conservatives in a festive mood
Posted by neo | September 25, 2006 8:13 PM
Posted on September 25, 2006 20:13