Joe Volpe, Gerard Kennedy, Martha Hall Findlay, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Hedy Fry, Ken Dryden and Stephane Dion still have a lot of work to do to repay their leadership loans with Ken Dryden leading the way with $354,121 remaining and the donations are drying up to a trickle for most. (see here)
Good luck to Kennedy, Findlay, Volpe and Dryden who can’t use being a MP any more as a fundraiser gambit although it’s not like it’s much of a draw anyway as Hedy Fry can attest.
I remember her leadership fundraiser soiree (see here) held at a gay bar in Ottawa where the who’s-who of Liberals attended including Bob Rae and Justin Trudeau but according to the update filed by Fry, it could have only brought in a total $1351.
August 31, 2011 at 3:34 PM
I don’t think your most rabid collection agency would come near that deadbeat list.
August 31, 2011 at 3:53 PM
and these are the allegedly “righteous pillars of progressive rectitude, transparency, sound fiscal management and an over-arching sense of ‘Librano Entitlement ®?’ huh?” Talk about getting an easy ride: four years + to clear up what should have been concluded within six months of their Librano Brothers Circus in the Big Red Tent ®.
As for this band of brigands and the party that bears their fetid, rotting carcasses? No how, no where should any of them ever again be allowed to get within 1,000 meters of anything to do with the public purse – not Federally, not Provincially, not even municipally.
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t.e.&o.e.
August 31, 2011 at 3:58 PM
How are they allowed to run in new elections when they haven’t paid the debts from the old ones?
August 31, 2011 at 6:49 PM
TD Bank. The financial arm of the liberal party.
September 1, 2011 at 7:04 AM
Have you heard the useless reporters ask those same liberal mps that question ridenrain, of course not, nor you ever will. and as long those hopeless reporters remain silent the the liberal mps continue with their accussations on other parties particularly the conservatives’ errors.
I hope that it will be SNN to do the job asking the mps.
August 31, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Well, we don’t have debtor’s prison and a body called Elections Canada who cannot bring themselves to put pressure on Liberals so guess they’ll just get away with it indefinitely.
August 31, 2011 at 6:10 PM
Marc Mayrand NEEDS to GO!
The double standards, turning a blind eye to them or simply rubber stamping the embarrassing examples such as these ones, makes EC appear as a partisan entity, not one of impartiality.
To continuously question any aspect of the electoral system is a failure of the system and the head of that system is the one to stand in front, take the heat and admit the profound and extremely pathetic failure(S).
Off you go, Marc!
August 31, 2011 at 6:28 PM
I would assume their is a moderate interest rate attached to each of these debts.
September 1, 2011 at 8:31 AM
Let’s face it, this rogues gallery of failed leadership candidates had/have absolutely no intention of paying off these debts they are all tax and spend Liberals after all.
I am sure they are either A) waiting for some wealthy benefactor to help them out or B) hoping that EC will grant extensions until some form of debt forgiveness is worked out.
Now … if this had been failed Conservative candidates we couldn’t hear the snap, crackle, pop of our morning cereal from all the msm bemoaning.
September 1, 2011 at 8:47 AM
Totally agree and mentioned that last Jan http://bcblue.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/did-liberal-leadership-candidates-ever-intend-to-pay-back-their-loans/