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Garth & CPAC speak out on controversy in Halton campaign
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Author:  J&J [ Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Garth & CPAC speak out on controversy in Halton campaign

CBC , CPAC, Garth himself, and his campaign manager comment on local campaign tactics by the Garth Turner team in Halton here and here. The words of Garth, his campaign manager, CPAC and CBC speak for themselves.

I know this is a few weeks old, but I hadn't "heard" this before. I just read exercpts here and there. Letting the key players tell the story, including Garth, should allow listeners to make up their own minds.

Garth's online printed response to all this is here. In his response, and at the tail end of the CBC story, there's a blurb on the Conservative campaign's own issue as well.

Author:  J&J [ Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:10 pm ]
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Agreed. Garth had the problem of having a film crew in tow. :)

Also, Garth actually made things worse in how he handled it with the CBC and CPAC. He was punting responsibility to his campaign manager on TV, but online eventually took responsibilty.

That said, when you add how he originally handled this controversy, to his floor-crossing, and some other things like his "death watch" (see below), I again question his judgement and integrity.

Now my choice in the Halton election is an experienced, but untrustworthy politician like Garth and virtual unknowns for the other parties. Pffft. Great choices.

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Author:  J&J [ Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:27 pm ]
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khan657 wrote:
just incase some of you are not able to access the video, this is what the CBC reporter says at the end of the story: "The Conservatives also invited the TV crew to interview a shop owner, she (the shop owner) happened to be the wife of the (Conservative) riding association director."


Thx. I hadn't thought of video access issues. Here's CBC's own mini-blurb on their Garth/Halton piece to complement Khan's quote from the same story.

CBC wrote:
Latest...Tough Questions for Garth Turner
Caught staging a campaign stop, Garth Turner is now turning his outrage on us, for reporting it. In his blog he says he did not agree to an interview with Ormiston Online.

Here are the facts:
A CBC producer called Garth Turner, Monday morning. He identified himself as calling from CBC News. The producer asked if Mr. Turner would speak with Susan Ormiston and said we would call back from a studio to record. He agreed.

Ormiston started by saying we are trying to “drill down on the bloggers claims” , Turner responded “well I hope you are going to drill down on the kind of gutter politics that creates this crap”.

And later, quoting from the interview transcript:

Garth Turner: “It's one thing to have it on YouTube, you put this on CBC... ahh, I can't prevent you, and you can do it if you want and I'll do your little interview here.”

It is clear that Garth Turner was speaking to a CBC journalist and agreed to do so, and that he acknowledged the interview.

At the end of the day, Mr. Turner, in an email to CPAC, copied to CBC, still put the blame squarely on CPAC: “The bottom line seems to be that CPAC was informed, prior to shooting, that the home in question was that of the son of my associate.”

CPAC has categorically denied that claim. CBC represented both Turner’s position and CPAC’s rebuttal. You can see that story at http://cbcnews.ca/ormistononline.


All of this just reinforces my disillusionment.

:( Halton's choices consist of a known, experienced yet untrustworthy Garth Turner :evil: or unknowns who could :? have some kind of pertinent experience running for the other parties. :roll:

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