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   Feb 5, 2011 - News1130   
      
   Expert: Feline fiasco hurt Clark's campaign   
      
   VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The fur continues to fly after word that a cat   
   belonging to someone on   
   Christy Clark's leadership campaign team was signed up for a Liberal Party   
   membership.   
      
   Speaking live on News1130, Sean Holman with Public Eye Online says it's no   
   laughing matter for   
   her organizers.  "Someone has gone out and found the stick that they can beat   
   the Christy Clark   
   campaign with.  Regardless of whether or not it was a joke sign-up, it   
   certainly is causing   
   some damage to the Clark campaign."   
      
   The cat's membership has since been scrapped.  Curiously, a prank website   
   making fun of the   
   incident was registered three days before the story broke.   
      
   BC Liberals choose their new leader February 26th.   
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   "mutato nomine"  wrote in message   
   news:vQ%1p.47550$ZS4.725@newsfe07.iad...   
   > Remember who she's married/related to with regards the BC Rail scandal and   
   the raid on the   
   > Legislature:   
   > ___________________________________________   
   >   
   > Vancouver Sun - March 24, 2009   
   >   
   > Aide sold BC Rail data: RCMP   
   >   
   > It was October of 2003 when police started listening to Dave Basi's   
   conversations on his   
   > home,   
   > government and cellular phones, as well as monitoring his e-mails.   
   >   
   > They were looking for evidence linked to a large cocaine and m   
   rijuana-trafficking operation   
   > between B.C. and Ontario.   
   >   
   > What the RCMP say they picked up, while eavesdropping on the former   
   ministerial aide to   
   > then-finance minister Gary Collins, was startling new information that led   
   them to a   
   > separate -- and more high-profile -- investigation.   
   >   
   > Police allege, in search warrant documents released Monday, that Basi   
   received money in   
   > exchange for "information and documents" he gave to Erik Bornman, a partner   
   in Pilothouse   
   > Public Affairs Group.   
   > [. . . .]   
   > The document suggests Bornman recommended the two provincial aides in a list   
   of names he sent   
   > to Mark Marissen, who was B.C. co-campaign chair for the federal Liberals in   
   January's   
   > election   
   > and is the husband of former B.C. Liberal deputy premier Christy Clark.   
   >   
   > The earlier documents also state police believed that Basi may have given   
   information   
   > regarding   
   > Roberts Bank, a BC Rail spur line, to Bruce Clark, a federal Liberal   
   fundraiser and Christy   
   > Clark's brother.   
   >   
   > Bruce Clark declined to be interviewed Monday, but in the past has   
   maintained he did nothing   
   > wrong.   
   >   
   > More than a year after the drug investigation, Project Everywhichway, was   
   launched, Basi was   
   > among eight people charged on Sept. 15, 2004 with drug-trafficking   
   offences.  [. . . .]   
   >   
   > ___________________________________________________________________   
   >   
   > I would trust ex-BC Liberal Finance Minister, Carole Taylor, before I would   
   trust Christy   
   > Clark   
   > with anything.  If Clen Clark could be forced out of office for accepting a   
   Swiss Army knife   
   > as   
   > a gift, Christy Clark should be denied even being able to run for the office   
   of Premier for   
   > being related to persons involved with the biggest scandal to hit the BC   
   government - the BC   
   > LIBERAL government in which Christy Clark was a major player.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
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