This is a frightening prospect for me. The Tea Party is rampant in my riding Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington.I have written about it earlier, the race in near-by Mississippi Mills.
Close race in Ontarios Conservative Carleton-Mississippi Mills
Locally, there is some fooferaw around the provincial Conservative nomination run in Carleton-Mississippi Mills riding.
UPDATE: Jack MacLaren won the nomination.
Candidate who toppled Norm Sterling is a ‘bully,’ PC riding president says.
Candidate who toppled Norm Sterling is a ‘bully,’ PC riding president says.
There is much going on behind the scenes in a political party whereby incumbents are forced to step aside, especially someone like MPP Norm Sterling, with a long history of serving the area.
(Ernie) Eves attacks Ontario Tory 'Tea Party' elements
...from one of its own.Former premier Ernie Eves said Wednesday there are "Tea Party...challenges."I don't care who hears this," Eves said at a recent tribute dinner for Sterling...he said at the time.
Manipulating a nomination election has to be the worst form of corruption. The articles says,
"Just weeks after Sterling fell, in fact, the Conservatives convinced two candidates to bow out of the race in Ottawa West-Nepean to acclaim Citizen columnist Randall Denley as its candidates. When a third candidate balked at that demand, he was dumped by the party and told he would not be allowed to run.
Ade Olumide said he was initially summoned to a meeting with a senior party official and told that 'to think this is a democratic process is a fallacy. This is a private club. It's a business.' "
The Libertarians in this area are fighting for little government intervention in land use, fighting against same-sex marriage, and all the other issues that cross into the US-based Tea Party.
The Tea Party is an American populist[1][2][3] political movement, which is generally recognized as conservative and libertarian,[4][5] and has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since 2009.[6][7][8] It endorses reduced government spending,[9][10] opposition to taxation in varying degrees,[10] reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit,[9] and adherence to an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution.[11]
Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington
8 Aug 2007 – Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington. Electoral district description: Population: 113077.
