Hinky Pinky Name of senior executive in Liberal party, and what they could fire him for.
This is why I like reading blogs. Paul Wells and Idealistic Pragmatist are talking about Mike Klander's blog*, in which he posted offensive and juvenile comments about the Tories and the NDP. The Toronto Star published an article about it, but otherwise there's been no mention in mainstream media. This is either because it's Christmas and no one's working, or it's a blog and under their radar, or because it's actually a fake (comments on Idealistic Pragmatist indicate there's good reason to believe it's not). Mike Klander is also a public relations consultant...
*That's google's cache because the real blog was deleted. If the images don't load right-click on them separately. I got this link from Wells.
8 comments Let me help out a little. I ran a number of searches on Google and Yahoo (the two search engines that cache web sites, including archive pages from blogs). I was looking for the other months to see what else Mike Klander may have written, and I was able to find all but two.
What I found was disturbing. This man is the second highest official in the Liberal Party of Canada, and the most senior official for Ontario. He is guiding their re-election campaign in that province. And yet, he thought nothing of putting out a blog that, month after month, slagged his opponents with racist, homophobic, and crude remarks.
Remember Parizeau and his reference to the "ethnics"? Klander wrote in one post he hated Stephen Harper standing next to "the sexy Rona Ambrose" and "the ethnic Rahim Jaffer".
Remember Kim Campbell's campaign mocking Chretien's face? Klander had a photo that was far more unkind.
He mocked quadriplegic MP Steven Fletcher's inability to move on his own, captioning one photo of Fletcher, receiving the congratulations of the House, as Fletcher telling the Health Minister to "step outside" in a piece of work he titled "Furious Fletcher and the Stiff".
Throughout his remarks are salted homophobic descriptions of people "looking gay".
To top it off, he confirmed what everyone has long suspected - that the desperate and cloying efforts of the Liberal government to do anything to hang onto power, rather than fall in a non-confidence motion, was part of a strategy to delay as long as possible so that people would get tired of Gomery.
I posted the links on Small Dead Animals, Comments Please, and some others, but since the Liberal spinners are frantically trying to claim these were faked, I encourage everyone to do what I did - search "Mike Klander" (in quotations) plus the name of each month, from April through December. When these sites come up, click on "cached" to find a copy of what the site looked like last time Google and Yahoo visited. | | |
| It's been pointed out to me that the reference to "Liberal spinners" is unfair to those who initially raised doubts about the authenticity of these posts, and I retract that reference. There seems to be no attempt by the Liberals to deny the authenticity of these posts. | | |
| Interesting comments, thanks. Are those names you mentioned blogs? How did you find this site? | | |
| I've been searching for blogs that reference this guy, and your blog came up. | | |
Oh man, update:
"After Paul Martin's emergency address to the nation, Paul Martin's leadership organizer in Ontario offers this preview of Liberal strategy and we learn that it was all manipulation:
He looked sincere, he looked prime ministerial and his apology seemed genuine. The promise to call an election within 30 days of the realease of Gomery's report was brilliant. Why? Not because it will stop the Conservatives from defeating the goverment (because I don't think it will) but because it gives the Liberals ammunition during a campaign. They will have credibility when they say that this election is unecesarry and that the Conservatives brought us to the polls because of pure political ambition. They know that Canadians don't want to go the polls and they know that Canadians will think that Martin's request to hold off on an election is reasonable. In the end, if the Conservatives defeat the government now, it will only reinforce what Canadians already think of them and all political parties for that matter - they are all the same...they will do anything to get elected and they are all crooked.
This was less of a plea and more of a strategy. In the end if Harper actually does hold off then the public will have 7 more months of Gomery...just enough time to get bored of it and more time to move on to important issues.
Remember, many observers speculated that this was the case. However, as a senior Liberal party executive and as a close confidant of Paul Martin, this does much more to confirm Martin's duplicity."
--from Stephen Taylor, a Conservative blogger who has catalogued Klander's posts. | | |
| Mike Klander is executive vice-president of the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario). | | |
Got it!
"Goodale goes jail" | | |
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