安省进步保守党领导人竞选: Doug Ford获胜

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The race to lead Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party isn't the place for Patrick Brown to clear his name, Caroline Mulroney said on Thursday morning as she called for the former leader to drop out of the contest.

The day after Mr. Brown was given the green light by the party to reseek the leadership he resigned from in late January, Ms. Mulroney, who is vying for the top job, called for the three other candidates in the race to back her call for Mr. Brown to step down.

"This is a leadership race for the future of our party and Patrick Brown needs to step aside. I've said it before and I'll say it again: a leadership race is not the place to clear your name. He needs to put the party above himself," Ms. Mulroney, a lawyer and daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, wrote on Twitter.

She said candidates should stop fighting for his support if he fails to win the nomination. Mr. Brown's camp and the three other campaigns have yet to react to Ms. Mulroney's call.

The PC party's decision to allow Mr. Brown's run on Wednesday came after several chaotic weeks for the party, starting with a rushed news conference in late January at which an emotional Mr. Brown denied allegations of sexual misconduct involving two younger women. He resigned hours later under pressure from his caucus members.

Since then, Mr. Brown has faced allegations that he engaged in financial impropriety, inflated party membership numbers and didn't act on ballot tampering in a number of local nomination races.

After the decision, Mr. Brown said on social media his campaign will focus on defending the People's Guarantee, the centrist PC platform drafted under his leadership, which includes a carbon tax opposed by the other candidates in the race.

"I won't let you down. This is about a movement to get Ontario back on track. I want to finish the job that we started," Mr. Brown wrote in a statement posted to Twitter.

The 39-year-old former leader is one of five candidates vying to take over Ontario's Official Opposition during a snap leadership contest that has rocked the party, exposing deep divisions in its caucus and membership just three months before a general election.

On Wednesday, a party nomination committee responsible for vetting leadership candidates announced that Mr. Brown and three others had been given the green light to run. They include Tanya Granic Allen, an activist who opposes Ontario's new sex-education curriculum; former Tory MPP Christine Elliott; and former Toronto councillor Doug Ford. Ms. Mulroney had previously been approved to run by the party.

The new leader will be elected on March 10 by party members, with voting expected to start on March 2 – only eight days after Mr. Brown and three others cleared the final hurdle to run.

Under Mr. Brown, the party had seemed ready to sweep Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberals from power. After nearly 15 years in opposition, the PCs enjoyed near-record fundraising and had seen the party's membership rolls swell under Mr. Brown's leadership. However, interim leader Vic Fedeli announced after Mr. Brown's abrupt resignation on Jan. 25, following a CTV News report of allegations of sexual misconduct against Mr. Brown, that "rot" had grown in the party under the former leader.

On Tuesday, in a complaint to Ontario's Integrity Commissioner, PC MPP Randy Hillier said that "disconcerting patterns" related to Mr. Brown's finances required explanation, including whether he has failed to disclose gifts, travel and other sources of income.

He cited, among other issues, a Globe and Mail report that documented a proposed $375,000 transaction between Mr. Brown and a future PC candidate. Mr. Brown has denied that any such deal occurred.

 

[小地主]

要是按照这个选法的话， 坦你亚第一轮出局应该是大概率事件， 我感觉她的选民的票，基本会把patrick放最后一位，她的出局在下面一轮更有可能有利于福特。

按说保守党就没个讨论沙盘推演的网站， 给下下指导棋？

五位候选人，持social conservative view的是坦尼亚和福特。。。他俩是相互分票的。。所以弄不好两人第一轮都出局。。另外村长贴的这段对他俩也是掣肘。。

Candidates must be nominated by at least 100 party members, must agree to abide by the party's existing platform for the next election, and must be approved be the party's nominations committee as a PC candidate for the 2018 provincial election

布朗这次出来参选个人觉得非常不明智，当然省保守党对他做的也是赶尽杀绝。。

 

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五位候选人，持social conservative view的是坦尼亚和福特。。。他俩是相互分票的。。所以弄不好两人第一轮都出局。。另外村长贴的这段对他俩也是掣肘。。

Candidates must be nominated by at least 100 party members, must agree to abide by the party's existing platform for the next election, and must be approved be the party's nominations committee as a PC candidate for the 2018 provincial election

布朗这次出来参选个人觉得非常不明智，当然省保守党对他做的也是赶尽杀绝。。

PC这次是够乱的了。

 

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PC这次是够乱的了。

发现那个老太太才几年啊？老的太快了。。。都快脱了像了。。

 

[小地主]

PC这次是够乱的了。

赶上民国初年的军阀混战了。。

你能想象布朗靠现在的底牌要是真又选上了，下一轮的党内再清洗会是啥样？

真是天助韦恩

 

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Elliott rejected Mulroney's call for Brown to give up his leadership bid.

"The party has made their decision about which candidates are in this race, and it's time to move forward," Elliott said in a statement. "This is not the time to divide us further. And frankly, we are running out of time."

Ford and Granic Allen have yet to comment.

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The race to lead Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party isn't the place for Patrick Brown to clear his name, Caroline Mulroney said on Thursday morning as she called for the former leader to drop out of the contest.

The day after Mr. Brown was given the green light by the party to reseek the leadership he resigned from in late January, Ms. Mulroney, who is vying for the top job, called for the three other candidates in the race to back her call for Mr. Brown to step down.

"This is a leadership race for the future of our party and Patrick Brown needs to step aside. I've said it before and I'll say it again: a leadership race is not the place to clear your name. He needs to put the party above himself," Ms. Mulroney, a lawyer and daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, wrote on Twitter.

She said candidates should stop fighting for his support if he fails to win the nomination. Mr. Brown's camp and the three other campaigns have yet to react to Ms. Mulroney's call.

The PC party's decision to allow Mr. Brown's run on Wednesday came after several chaotic weeks for the party, starting with a rushed news conference in late January at which an emotional Mr. Brown denied allegations of sexual misconduct involving two younger women. He resigned hours later under pressure from his caucus members.

Since then, Mr. Brown has faced allegations that he engaged in financial impropriety, inflated party membership numbers and didn't act on ballot tampering in a number of local nomination races.

After the decision, Mr. Brown said on social media his campaign will focus on defending the People's Guarantee, the centrist PC platform drafted under his leadership, which includes a carbon tax opposed by the other candidates in the race.

"I won't let you down. This is about a movement to get Ontario back on track. I want to finish the job that we started," Mr. Brown wrote in a statement posted to Twitter.

The 39-year-old former leader is one of five candidates vying to take over Ontario's Official Opposition during a snap leadership contest that has rocked the party, exposing deep divisions in its caucus and membership just three months before a general election.

On Wednesday, a party nomination committee responsible for vetting leadership candidates announced that Mr. Brown and three others had been given the green light to run. They include Tanya Granic Allen, an activist who opposes Ontario's new sex-education curriculum; former Tory MPP Christine Elliott; and former Toronto councillor Doug Ford. Ms. Mulroney had previously been approved to run by the party.

The new leader will be elected on March 10 by party members, with voting expected to start on March 2 – only eight days after Mr. Brown and three others cleared the final hurdle to run.

Under Mr. Brown, the party had seemed ready to sweep Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberals from power. After nearly 15 years in opposition, the PCs enjoyed near-record fundraising and had seen the party's membership rolls swell under Mr. Brown's leadership. However, interim leader Vic Fedeli announced after Mr. Brown's abrupt resignation on Jan. 25, following a CTV News report of allegations of sexual misconduct against Mr. Brown, that "rot" had grown in the party under the former leader.

On Tuesday, in a complaint to Ontario's Integrity Commissioner, PC MPP Randy Hillier said that "disconcerting patterns" related to Mr. Brown's finances required explanation, including whether he has failed to disclose gifts, travel and other sources of income.

He cited, among other issues, a Globe and Mail report that documented a proposed $375,000 transaction between Mr. Brown and a future PC candidate. Mr. Brown has denied that any such deal occurred.

 

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发现那个老太太才几年啊？老的太快了。。。都快脱了像了。。

一过六十肯定是走下坡路了。

 

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赶上民国初年的军阀混战了。。

你能想象布朗靠现在的底牌要是真又选上了，下一轮的党内再清洗会是啥样？

真是天助韦恩

是否第一轮出局也不好说啊，这两年他培养的嫡系也应该不少。

 

[小地主]

发现那个老太太才几年啊？老的太快了。。。都快脱了像了。。

老太太拒绝和马鲁尼联手反对布朗参选，得分啊。。
如果进入最后一轮的是她俩，那布朗的票绝大多数会转到老太太名下。。

老向嫌钱少，一万CFC刀全压在老太太身上。。接盘吧九哥。。

 

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老太太拒绝和马鲁尼联手反对布朗参选，得分啊。。
如果进入最后一轮的是她俩，那布朗的票绝大多数会转到老太太名下。。

老向嫌钱少，一万CFC刀全压在老太太身上。。接盘吧九哥。。

进步保守党人如果想赢得省大选的话，那就选出老太太或者马尔罗尼。

然后让三个女人去掐。

 

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Ontario PC Leadership candidate Patrick Brown leaves the Ontario PC Party Head Offices in Toronto on Tuesday. (Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

By Thomas Walkom National Affairs Columnist
Fri., Feb. 23, 2018

Ontario’s bizarre Progressive Conservative melodrama has entered a new phase of absurdity.

Former leader Patrick Brown is considered too disreputable to sit in the Legislature as a Conservative. But he is apparently reputable enough to be the party’s leader again.

He’s also the only candidate vying for the leadership who is running as a Red Tory. That’s important because the Red Tory blend of sound economic management and moderately progressive social policy is usually the formula for political success in Ontario — for any party.

The Brown on-again-off-again leadership story is not the oddest in Canadian history. That honour still belongs to Joe Clark who famously quit as federal Tory leader in 1983 because he didn’t think the 67 per cent support he gleaned from party delegates in a review vote was enough. (Clark then ran for his old job and lost to a political neophyte named Brian Mulroney.)

Still, the Brown saga is odd enough. It began last month when CTV aired claims from two anonymous young women that Brown had initiated sexual contact with them.

Neither charged assault. And CTV later retracted its initial claim that one of the women was a high school student under the age of 19.

But it was enough to spook the party. Brown, who has denied any wrongdoing, was effectively forced to resign as leader.

His caucus wouldn’t back him. Even his senior staff quit en masse.

Brown would later call this a coup. And in some ways, that’s what it was. Brown had never been popular with the party establishment. An outsider, he won the leadership in 2015 by pandering to the party’s social conservative wing on issues like sex education.

But after winning, he abandoned his former allies and veered to the centre.

All of which is to say that when he found himself in trouble, he didn’t have many keen supporters.

The party also had to calculate the political cost of replacing a leader so close to the June 7 general election. If, as the polls suggest, Ontarians are overwhelmingly sick of Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne, then it might not matter who the Tories put up to oppose her.

In that case, there would be no political cost to replacing Brown. More to the point, there would be no political cost to ditching Brown’s carefully calibrated Red Tory platform — a platform designed to keep many of Wynne’s more popular reforms in place, while positioning the PCs as better fiscal managers.

Thus, all candidates except Brown have abandoned plans for a carbon tax to address climate change. As well, all except Brown and political newcomer Caroline Mulroney have pledged to reopen the sex education debate.

Except for Brown, none has ruled out changing other parts of the so-called “People’s Guarantee” platform.

Now that Brown has decided to fight for his old job, his critics are getting harsher. Interim leader Vic Fideli has kicked him out of the Tory caucus. Tory MPP Randy Hillier has filed a complaint about him with the province’s integrity commissioner.

The Globe and Mail published a complicated story asking whether Brown had entered into a financial arrangement with someone seeking a Tory nomination (the answer apparently was no).

Political operatives, irked that he hasn’t quietly gone away, accuse him of putting his own interests before those of the party — a charge that could be levelled at any politician trying to rock the boat.

When a 23-year-old girlfriend publicly supported him, Brown, 39, was criticized for dating younger women. That’s an accusation that Brian Mulroney, who was 34 when he married 19-year-old Mila Pivnicki never faced. Nor did Pierre Trudeau when he married a young woman almost 30 years his junior.

Still, who knows? Maybe Brown is a roué and a bounder.

But right now he is also the only Red Tory in this race. If on June 7, Ontario voters look beyond the question of how much they dislike Wynne, that might just matter.

 

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老太太拒绝和马鲁尼联手反对布朗参选，得分啊。。
如果进入最后一轮的是她俩，那布朗的票绝大多数会转到老太太名下。。

老向嫌钱少，一万CFC刀全压在老太太身上。。接盘吧九哥。。

这回是谁把布朗整下去的主谋？只有知道这点俺才好八卦。。。感觉是老太太？

 

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这回是谁把布朗整下去的主谋？只有知道这点俺才好八卦。。。感觉是老太太？

应该不是老太太。

 

[小地主]

这回是谁把布朗整下去的主谋？只有知道这点俺才好八卦。。。感觉是老太太？

@黄哥。。。谁是你丽莎小妹背后的黑手？

 

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应该不是老太太。

如果不是老太太或老太太圈，那老太太就不应该最终受益。。。政治逻辑上。