Posts Tagged ‘Tim Hudak Victory’
Andrea Horwath Proves She is Classier Than McGuinty – Congratulates Hudak
This is the unedited Ontario NDP response to Tim Hudak’s victory, straight from the Canada News Wire NDP Leader Andrea Horwath congratulates Hudak.
“I want to congratulate Tim Hudak on his successful run for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. I look forward to working with him in this exciting new role.
I also want to thank former PC Leader John Tory and interim Leader Bob Runciman for their service. While we differed on many issues, we were able to work together in the Legislature with mutual respect.
I am confident that respect will continue with Tim and I wish him congratulations tonight.”
This is the unedited Ontario Liberal Party response to Tim Hudak’s victory, straight from the Canada News Wire Harris wannabe squeaks by at Conservative convention.
Deal with Hillier and plan to scrap human rights protections prove Hudak is out of touch with Ontarian’s values
MARKHAM, ON, June 27 /CNW/ – Ontario Conservatives moved further back to the old Mike Harris era and further out of touch with today’s Ontario in selecting Tim Hudak as their Leader.
Hudak’s victory is owed largely to the support of radical-right wing candidate Randy Hillier. Hillier’s pledge of support came after Hudak followed Hillier in attacking the human rights protections Ontarians have valued for decades.
Hudak followed the Mike Harris playbook with negative, divisive pledges to rip up contracts of nurses and teachers. In addition, Hudak has pledged to slash funding for construction of new hospitals, schools and transit in communities across Ontario – which would throw thousands out of work in the middle of a global economic crisis.
“Ontario families don’t want to go back to the days of the Harris-gang calling the shots and Tim Hudak following,” said Liberal MPP Chris Bentley.
“Ontarians rejected that approach and don’t want to look back.”
My Commentary:
The Ontario NDP did not have any staffers or members of caucus present at the Ontario PC Leadership election. By my count, the Ontario Liberal Party had one Cabinet Minister and four staffers who are full time employees receiving salaries from taxpayer funds. Instead of handing out factually inaccurate and embarrassingly pathetic attacks on candidates at the PC convention, the NDP let the Tories have their weekend undisturbed, unprovoked.
This to me is a clear demonstration that Andrea Horwath gets that politics doesn’t have to be negative, and hopefully the Ontario NDP decision not to use taxpayers money for partisan purposes (unlike the Ontario Liberal Party) is a demonstration of their rejection of that cynical practice as well.
I’ve always liked Andrea Horwath, and see her response to Tim Hudak, someone I’m sure she disagrees with on almost everything with, demonstrates a decency that politics is missing. That is something I definitely admire and am happy to see Horwath demonstrating.
9 Comments »Tim Hudak Wins Ontario PC Leadership
Tim Hudak is the first frontrunner in a while to keep it up right through the finish line. He did so today in Markham with a third ballot victory over Frank Klees. I will have more to say on this later, but for now, enjoy a video with highlights from Hudak’s first speech as Ontario PC Party Leader.
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