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Another embarassment for the Conservatives as one of their candidates had to quit because she had several criminal convictions. Interestingly, she appears to be a feminist, too.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story...ax.html?ref=rss

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The post a title of the thread are misleading. First, she is not a crook, she hasn't stolen anything, she was convicted of uttering threats.

Secondly, acccording to the article she doesn't have several convictions, she has two.

CBC News has learned that Luke was convicted of uttering threats in July 2006 and sentenced to 18 months probation. In June 2007, she was convicted of breaching an undertaking and fined $50. She also got an additional nine months probation.

Breaching an undrtaking can means several things, most likely she had an order to stay away from the person whom she uttered threats.

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Another embarassment for the Conservatives as one of their candidates had to quit because she had several criminal convictions. Interestingly, she appears to be a feminist, too.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story...ax.html?ref=rss

Reminds me again of the old Reform days. Once in a while a bad apple would be discovered on their candidates list. Reform would boot them out, even choosing once when the writ had already been dropped to go with NO candidate rather than a crook or a racist!

The Liberals of course had the same thing happen a few times but chose instead to just wave their hands and say" Well, what can we do?".

They tended to make their bad apples party leaders!

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I don't really see how this means much of anything. She wasn't allowed to run. She was booted out of the party. The conservatives didn't want a convicted criminal in their ranks. What's the deal?

I suppose, according to Ontario Loyalist, that Stephen Harper hand-picked her knowing that she had a criminal record because he wants as many criminals in his cabinet as possible. He himself is obviously evil and that would just be a smart thing to do.

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Honestly, if this happened to another party, many people here would be howling with delight and derision. Just goes to show you...

Well, whether she ran or not, she certainly was crooked and was elected as the riding's candidate...

Some of us on here appreciate a view OTHER than the standard conservative crap.

Keep up the good work and heck, they have not banned me yet so you are safe

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I don't really see how this means much of anything. She wasn't allowed to run. She was booted out of the party. The conservatives didn't want a convicted criminal in their ranks. What's the deal?

I suppose, according to Ontario Loyalist, that Stephen Harper hand-picked her knowing that she had a criminal record because he wants as many criminals in his cabinet as possible. He himself is obviously evil and that would just be a smart thing to do.

While I agree this isn't exactly a scandal by an means... I do always find it interesting when we see Harper/the Cons - who went into the last election posing as the champions of an open and democratic way of governing - hand picking candidates, often against the will of the local riding associations without a vote or even discussion.

This sort of thing can be expected when you subvert the democratic system and have a just few people making decisions like this.

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Honestly, if this happened to another party, many people here would be howling with delight and derision. Just goes to show you...

Well, whether she ran or not, she certainly was crooked and was elected as the riding's candidate...

Yes. A lot of people have double standards. Still doesn't mean it's right nor does it mean that this is a particularly noteworthy issue.

The conservatives are having trouble fielding candidates in Novia Scotia. The riding in question is currently held by the NDP. They likely hand picked this candidate because nobody else wanted to run in a riding they would almost certainly lose. Turns out she was a bad apple. Now they have to probably pick a new one unless someone steps up.

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While I agree this isn't exactly a scandal by an means... I do always find it interesting when we see Harper/the Cons - who went into the last election posing as the champions of an open and democratic way of governing - hand picking candidates, often against the will of the local riding associations without a vote or even discussion.

This sort of thing can be expected when you subvert the democratic system and have a just few people making decisions like this.

You're right, of course. This is yet another example of how the new Tory Party abandoned a Reform/Alliance principle of free and open nominations at the riding level in favour of HQ calling the shots.

However, since the other parties have ALWAYS appointed their candidates and made a total farce out of the idea of folks in a riding picking their own candidates for nomination, this also leaves me without an attractive alternative.

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You're right, of course. This is yet another example of how the new Tory Party abandoned a Reform/Alliance principle of free and open nominations at the riding level in favour of HQ calling the shots.

However, since the other parties have ALWAYS appointed their candidates and made a total farce out of the idea of folks in a riding picking their own candidates for nomination, this also leaves me without an attractive alternative.

That's not entirely true of any the parties. Most candidates are selected at the riding level and when one is parachuted in there is usually a big stink like when Ruby Dhalla or ingnatief was placed by Martin.

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That's not entirely true of any the parties. Most candidates are selected at the riding level and when one is parachuted in there is usually a big stink like when Ruby Dhalla or ingnatief was placed by Martin.

Well, that's the OFFICIAL line! ;)

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Isn't the title of this thread a little slanderous?

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was elected as the riding's candidate...

Wrong again, she wasn't elected, she was acclaimed.

I know you are way over there in Ontario and can't give two craps about the rest of the country and this interests you only because you hate the dreaded CONS, but at least get your facts straight will ya?

Those Dern Rednecks done outfoxed the left wing again.

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Director of a women's empowerment organization, convicted of uttering threats...

This sounds like it might be a domestic abuse issue rather her being a criminal offense as we might typically think.

Records don't always mean what they appear to say. I know a guy who is on a sexual offender registry. His crime? Peeing on the side of a building while drunk when he was 19.

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good ridance to bad rubbish, the conservatives accountability comes back, they railroaded trash out of the party. How is that a bad thing. Looks pretty accountable to me.

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This sounds like it might be a domestic abuse issue rather her being a criminal offense as we might typically think.

Oh, please; yes, let's make excuses for her. Why? Because she's a woman?

Some of us on here appreciate a view OTHER than the standard conservative crap.

Keep up the good work and heck, they have not banned me yet so you are safe

Cheers!

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Director of a women's empowerment organization, convicted of uttering threats...

This sounds like it might be a domestic abuse issue rather her being a criminal offense as we might typically think.

Records don't always mean what they appear to say. I know a guy who is on a sexual offender registry. His crime? Peeing on the side of a building while drunk when he was 19.

I call bull sh!t!

No police officer goes through the myriad of paper work involved in a sexual offense charge (and meets with the crown attorney) for a simple matter of urinating in public.

It would be a career limiting move in the extreme.

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I call bull sh!t!

No police officer goes through the myriad of paper work involved in a sexual offense charge (and meets with the crown attorney) for a simple matter of urinating in public.

It would be a career limiting move in the extreme.

I call bullshit too. The police are much too busy investigating and busting people for growing, possessing smoking, or selling cannabis to other adults who want it that they would never have time to bust a drunken dumbass from pissing on the side of someones building. That may have been his excuse for why he pulled out his weiner in front of some woman or child who complained to the police about it, but like Harper's excuses for calling an election it was just BS. We ran into some drunken idiots like that the last time we stayed in a local hotel. They were drunk and standing at the top of the water slide exposing themselves to the young girls when they got to the top, including my 6 year old daughter. Never fails to amaze me how conservatives think drunkeness excuses ANY behavior, yet seek to punish people for using cannabis which is not known to lead to any of the stupid obnoxious behavior that drunks commonly display.

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If only Capricorn could have copied it

Thanks for the tip Dancer.

Shoot. I could have titled my Dhaliwal thread: "Liberal lobbies for lowlife" or "Grit Gaga for Gangsta".

So many opportunities, so little time. :lol:

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