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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   I guess there are a few conservative types with scruples and ethics.   
   And they seem to be leaving . . . .   
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   Postmedia News - December 3, 2013   
      
      
   Conservative senator David Braley quits, tells newspaper scandal has   
   tainted red chamber   
      
      
      
   OTTAWA – A Conservative senator from Ontario who owns two CFL teams has   
   retired early from the upper chamber.   
      
   David Braley provided no reason for his departure, which was effective   
   Nov. 30. The 72-year-old wasn’t scheduled to retire until 2016.   
      
   Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Braley to the Senate in 2010,   
   giving a patronage appointment to a top Conservative donor and backer.   
      
   But Braley was apparently fed up with the Senate scandal, telling his   
   local newspaper in September it had tainted anyone who sits in the red   
   chamber.   
      
   A longtime businessman from Hamilton, Ont., Braley told the Hamilton   
   Community News that his wife had asked him to consider retiring early.   
   He also said in the interview that the actions of senators Mike Duffy,   
   Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin, as well as of former Liberal senator   
   Mac Harb, had made him rethink his place in the upper chamber.   
      
   The first three have been suspended over spending irregularities; Harb   
   retired from the Senate earlier this year.  The RCMP has been looking   
   into some senators’ expenses, and into the repayment of Duffy’s expenses   
   by Nigel Wright, who was at the time the prime minister’s chief of staff.   
      
   Braley was not available for comment Tuesday, his office said.   
      
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