Wednesday 28 September 2011

Tea Party heads north?

I hope not, but it may well be so.
Tea Party Consultants Head North

Michael Prell, who bills himself as a "strategist for the Tea Party Patriots," has joined the campaign of Tim Hudak, the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. 


Hudak is part of a new generation of politicians pulling the Progressive Conservatives further to the right. He pledged to abolish the Ontario Human Rights Commission, for example, in a deal to secure his position as party leader. In 2009, while speaking to a Canadian Christian right group, the Association for Reformed Political Action, he declared that he was opposed to abortion and had signed petitions calling for the defunding of abortions. He has also supported taxpayer funding to religious private schools. Recent proposals for tax cuts and changes to the healthcare system are very Tea Party-esque.

I know my American friends will sympathise.

1 comment:

Deb said...

Scary thought.
Given the sea of blue around here, it doesn't appear there'll be any change.