senate scandal – David Akin’s On The Hill

Conservatives worry "Liberal attacks and the media" will derail fundraising drive

Senator Marjory LeBreton is pressed by reporters last spring for answers about the Senate scandal, a scandal which had a lot of grassroots Conservatives stop donating to the party. Now, party president John Walsh is encouraging those donors to get back in the game and blaming the “media” for getting in the way of things. (DAVID AKIN/QMI Agency)

The latest missive from John Walsh, the president of the Conservative Party of Canada, to the party’s membership (delivered to my source for this at just after 6 pm ET on Friday night) I have emphasized one line: Continue reading Conservatives worry "Liberal attacks and the media" will derail fundraising drive

Read for yourself: "Good to go" and other e-mails from Nigel Wright

Read for yourself: The 80 pages that has Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a real political pickle:

RCMP Nov 15 ITO on Wright-Duffy investigation

"We are good to go from the PM"

Eighty pages of documents were placed in front of a judge today by RCMP investigators probing the senate scandal. In them, we learn that, in addition to Senator Mike Duffy, the RCMP now believe Nigel Wright, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, also committed a fraud on the government and is guilty of breach of trust.

Nothing has been proven in court, yet, but there is much jaw-dropping information in them.

Here, though, are the bombshell quotes, given that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has personally and frequently told the House of Commons that, whatever happened involving Duffy, Wright, and that $90,000 cheque, Harper knew nothing about it. Continue reading "We are good to go from the PM"