Showing posts with label Gordon Landon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gordon Landon. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Conservative Candidate Dumped for Honesty Over Abuse of Stimulus Money

Last week we learned from a Conservative candidate for Markham-Unionville that the party brass had informed him that no stimulus money would be coming to his riding until a Conservative was elected. They forgot to tell him to keep that under his hat, and didn't he announce it to the public on a televised panel show.

Naturally, he was dumped immediately. Harper would never put up with honesty.

Tory candidate dumped for frank TV comments

OTTAWA–A moment of candour has cost Gordon Landon a shot at federal politics.

Landon was dumped Monday as the Conservative candidate for Markham-Unionville after publicly musing the GTA riding was being shut out of federal infrastructure funding because it is held by a Liberal.

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