End of Volpe's Leadership Bid?
Liberal leadership hopeful Joe Volpe has apparently received $54,000 in donations from two drug manufacturers.
The new electoral financing laws prevent corporations from making political donations. So it appears that the corporate execs channelled the monies to Volpe by donating them in their children's names. One question... when was the last time you knew a teenager who had the cash to donate $5400 to a political campaign? Better question... when was the last time you met a kid who would even want to make such a donation?
This is not "technically" illegal, but I'm sure the other leadership candidates are already trying to figure out how to best use this to their advantage. My prediction is that one of the other candidates will paint Volpe as being part of the old-school Liberal crew, where corruption was rampant, and that Volpe should not be the one to lead them into the next election, lest Canadians still view the Liberals as corrupt.
The new electoral financing laws prevent corporations from making political donations. So it appears that the corporate execs channelled the monies to Volpe by donating them in their children's names. One question... when was the last time you knew a teenager who had the cash to donate $5400 to a political campaign? Better question... when was the last time you met a kid who would even want to make such a donation?
This is not "technically" illegal, but I'm sure the other leadership candidates are already trying to figure out how to best use this to their advantage. My prediction is that one of the other candidates will paint Volpe as being part of the old-school Liberal crew, where corruption was rampant, and that Volpe should not be the one to lead them into the next election, lest Canadians still view the Liberals as corrupt.
posted by Christian Conservative @ 8:17 p.m.
7 Comments:
At Sun May 28, 08:32:00 p.m. EDT,
Christian Conservative said…
A note to all my wonderful commenters... this is being reported not to say "HA! HA! LIBERAL LOSERS!" but as a significant news item to watch within the Liberal leadership race.
Just to be clear. ;-)
At Mon May 29, 06:52:00 a.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
In the end, I would not worry about Volpe becoming leader or Prime Minister. He is not very popular outside the 416 eara code.
At Mon May 29, 08:52:00 a.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
E J Hosdil:
I won't be worried about Volpe.
However, if he does win the message that "these guys can't be trusted" will be reinforced tenfold and Harper does a cakewalk to a majority.
Volpe could do more damage to the LPC than any of the other contenders.
I heartly endorse JV for liberal leader.
At Mon May 29, 11:01:00 a.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
The other liberal leadership candidates will only point his financing activities if they didn't do the same thing...
I would not be surprised if all of them are quite good at evading laws.
At Mon May 29, 05:19:00 p.m. EDT,
George said…
He always struck me as a dirty guy. I would not trust at all. He lies whenever he opens his mouth. In short, he is the worst kind of Liberal.
At Mon May 29, 07:09:00 p.m. EDT,
Blake Kennedy said…
Kinda funny that Cons would take so much pleasure in beating down an admittedly crooked Liberal leadership candidate, but they're not quite open about what their own leader said when he was heading up the NCC... ;)
Frankly, Joe Volpe has about as much chance at becoming next Liberal leader as Stockwell Day has at being caught reading a book in public.
At Tue May 30, 06:08:00 a.m. EDT,
metasyntactic variable said…
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