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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   On 03/12/2013 1:57 PM, ConɀRConɀ wrote:   
   > I guess there are a few conservative types with scruples and ethics. And   
   > they seem to be leaving . . . .   
   > _________________________________   
   >   
   > 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.   
   Braley is a very wealthy man and owns the Argonauts and the BC Lions he   
   doesn't need the money being a Senator brings. Hopefully there will be   
   an election held to replace him instead of just another patronage   
   appointment.   
      
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