Mike Duffy and the conservative way.

[Cobalt_Kid]

Mike Duffy make what, $135,000 a year, he was a prominent journalist for years, I'm guessing he wasn't paid in beans.

Which raises the question, why did Harper's chief of staff pony up $90,000 to bail out a conservative senator that should have more than the means to take care of his debt on his own. Did Duffy make some kind of threat and if so what was it regarding, there has to be some very good reason for this kind of transaction to take place.

 

[JLM]

Mike Duffy make what, $135,000 a year, he was a prominent journalist for years, I'm guessing he wasn't paid in beans.

Which raises the question, why did Harper's chief of staff pony up $90,000 to bail out a conservative senator that should have more than the means to take care of his debt on his own. Did Duffy make some kind of threat and if so what was it regarding, there has to be some very good reason for this kind of transaction to take place.

Maybe if these guys' gonads were put in a vice they'd start "singing"-

 

[Durry]

Amazing the amount of damage one person can make in Ottawa !!

 

[JLM]

Amazing the amount of damage one person can make in Ottawa !!

One person????????????????

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

Remember the days that reporters actually got to ask tough questions of the PM?

Reporters Yell Out Questions At Harper After Speech To Tory Caucus (VIDEO)

Even Chretien allowed reporters largely free access to him and his ministers, now everything is vetted before it even gets to the ministerial let alone the PM level. You can see on this video how conservative MPs try to drown out reporters questions with applause. The reporters are indirectly working for us trying to communicate important information on what's going on n what's supposed to be our government, but the conservatives consistent response is to try and shut down any and all access.

we will be more accountable, just don't ask us any questions. Oh, and to the media, definitely no questions from you.

My favorite tweet on the caucus speech, basically the old Harper line of "trust us, just don't expect us to tell you anything important on what's going on with your government" is being taken once again.

PMSH has strong words for accountability, then slams the door on Qs from press and flees the country.

Another good one.

 

[#juan]

Am I the only one who thinks Mike Duffy is looking increasingly lik Jabba The Hut?

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

The more they dig into this the more it stinks.

How was the Mike Duffy report 'whitewashed?' - Politics - CBC News

Not only was Duffy dishonest in claiming his primary residence was in P.E.I. and Wright was overstepping his authority in trying to stop an investigation by "lending" Duffy $90,000 to pay back his misclaimed expenses, but conservative senators whitewashed the final report that was presented to the senate.

When the committee reconvened on May 9, Stewart Olsen introduced a motion to change the Duffy report, including deleting the draft report's references to the residency rules being "very clear" and "unambiguous." Another change initiated by Stewart Olsen deleted the draft report's statement that Duffy's travel patterns were not consistent with maintaining a primary residence on P.E.I.

In a move sources suggest is unprecedented for the internal economy committee, which usually makes its decisions on a consensus basis, a vote was taken on whether to change the report. Committee members split along party lines and Tory votes carried the day.

Which raises the question, where does this kind of activity end with the conservative government?

Pretty clearly accountability and respect for the rules and law are not a priority with the Harper government and the large number of senators it has appointed. Instead of bringing respect to the upper house, the current government has added to the problem.

And another person very close to Harper was also involved in this, it's becoming very hard to claim that Harper wasn't involved.

Olsen has a long history with Prime Minister Stephen Harper that dates back to his time in the Canadian Alliance Party. She is one of his most loyal advisers, and worked as his press secretary and later as his chief communications strategist. Harper appointed her to the Senate in 2009.

Angus pointed to the close connection between Harper and Olsen and noted that she sat on the steering committee that was driving the writing of the Duffy report. "This keeps going back to the prime minister," he said.

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

The smarmy way that Harper refuses to answer questions about the senate scandal and conservative whitewashing of the expense scam of Mike Duffy is disgusting, how did this jerk get to be head of a major party in Canada, let alone PM?

Yes Mr. Harper Canadians do want to know about how power is being abused in your government, answer the damned questions.

Harper faces sharp questions over Duffy-Wright affair - Politics - CBC News

Harper said in reply, "The Senate committee has been very clear, it made its own report on these matters, the government’s position is also extremely well-known. Inappropriate expenditures, when people claim expenditures that they never actually incurred, these are inappropriate and must be repaid to the taxpayers."

Mulcair tried the question again, scolding that it was "simple and straightforward." Harper again replied without directly answering whether he'd talked to his cabinet.

"The Senate committee report is a Senate committee report, it is not a matter of government or cabinet business. That is plainly obvious," he said.

Harper, almost expressionless, spoke in a low voice, and at times seemed rattled, once mistakenly saying the word "correct," then quickly changing it to "incorrect," about information Mulcair was presenting in a question.

How likely is it that a man who's infamous for being in control of everything within his government knew nothing about his chief of staff paying a senator $90,000 to stop an investigation that would make his government look bad and a whitewash campaign by conservative senators of the final report that involved another person close to Harper, Carolyn Stewart-Olson?

Trudeau asked every question allotted to the Liberals. He demanded Harper commit to disclosing all documents and emails between Duffy and Wright, as well as a copy of the cheque to Duffy.

Given that the news of Wright's involvement was reported on May 14 on CTV News, the night before Harper says he found out about it, Trudeau asked, "Is the prime minister so unaware of what's going on in his own office that he didn't know about it the night before when the news broke?"

 

[Trex]

The smarmy way that Harper refuses to answer questions about the senate scandal and conservative whitewashing of the expense scam of Mike Duffy is disgusting, how did this jerk get to be head of a major party in Canada, let alone PM?

Yes Mr. Harper Canadians do want to know about how power is being abused in your government, answer the damned questions.

Harper faces sharp questions over Duffy-Wright affair - Politics - CBC News



How likely is it that a man who's infamous for being in control of everything within his government knew nothing about his chief of staff paying a senator $90,000 to stop an investigation that would make his government look bad and a whitewash campaign by conservative senators of the final report that involved another person close to Harper, Carolyn Stewart-Olson?

Blah Blah Blah
Rant Rant Rant.

The reality is, they are all the same.
Politicians are politicians and Senate trough snufflers are Senate trough snufflers.
Whatever the stripe.

During the beginning of the great Duffy Wallin Senate scandel where was Trudeau minor?
Why in Jamaica mon, home of the lamb's breath which no doubt mom Maggie partook of in vast quantities, Rolling Stones and all.
Justin probably knows his way around a ganga spliff in the homelands I would guess.
And all this during session.
Shows Justin really gives a rats a$$

Upon returning what did Justin have to say?
quote" The scandal-plagued Senate has a cheerleader in Justin Trudeau after the Liberal leader said he wouldn't abolish the chamber because it's to Quebec's gain over other provinces to keep the lights on.

"We have 24 senators from Quebec and there are just six from Alberta and British Columbia. It's to our advantage," he told a French newspaper.
Unquote.

Justin just can't wait to restack that Senate with Liberal Quebecois drones.
But hey, they must be better than Conbot drones.
Natural ruling party and all.

The only people who are golden in all this are the Dip's.
And the Dip's want to abolish the Senate.
I tend to agree with the Dip's on this one

 

[Durry]

quote" The scandal-plagued Senate has a cheerleader in Justin Trudeau after the Liberal leader said he wouldn't abolish the chamber because it's to Quebec's gain over other provinces to keep the lights on.

"We have 24 senators from Quebec and there are just six from Alberta and British Columbia. It's to our advantage," he told a French newspaper.
Unquote.

Yep, that's what he said!!!

Quote:
It's to OUR ADVANTAGE
Unquote:

And this dumbo wants to be a PM for all of Canada !!!
What an idiot!!
It's pretty clear what his hidden agenda is!!

 

[Goober]

Am I the only one who thinks Mike Duffy is looking increasingly lik Jabba The Hut?

You are not alone.

 

[tay]

Amazing the amount of damage one person can make in Ottawa !!

It's more than one person causing us distress..............

We were most relieved to hear from Senator Tkachuk that even though he was soliciting advice from the Prime Minister's Office on how to do his audit of Duffy, and Nigel Wright was calling him up wanting to know "When is this thing over with?", Senator Tkachuk assures us that "no one came to my room and told me what to do."

Well that's good to know but with Steve's former-press-secretary-now-Senator Carolyn Stewart Olsen spearheading the Duffy audit whitewash/rewrite in the steering committee for you, your own room was pretty well always safe, wasn't it?

That whitewashed audit is now winging its way back to the same perps for further review and Steve's buddy, government leader in the senate Marjory LeBreton, has refused to open the hearings, complaining she lives in a town "populated by Liberal elitists and their lickspittle media” and is not getting enough credit for opening up the senate to Steve's scandal.


Creekside: Search results for Perps with perks

 

[JLM]

So the bastard outright lied about 49 days he claimed he was in Ottawa!

 

[JLM]

I guess Duffy having a similar physical stature to Rob Ford, it would not be politically correct to speculate that he may have been smoking a little crack.

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

Yep, that's what he said!!!

Quote:
It's to OUR ADVANTAGE
Unquote:

And this dumbo wants to be a PM for all of Canada !!!
What an idiot!!
It's pretty clear what his hidden agenda is!!

At least we know where he stands, Harper promised to appoint no new senators and reform the upper house.

He's now appointed more than 50, some of whom are acting as if they're totally above the rules and used his control there to ram through legislation.

This why we need more transparency and accountability in government.

Highlights from Sen. Mike Duffy’s expenses | Globalnews.ca

While the Deloitte audit found Duffy had submitted expense claims for per diems relating to 12 days he spent in Florida, that wasn’t the whole story.

At the meeting, it was further revealed Duffy submitted expense claims and was paid for per diems in Ottawa during a time period when he does not appear to have been in the capital.

This prompted a review of Duffy’s claims from April 2011 to September 2012.

Duffy claimed 49 days of per diems and was paid for 25 days. But it appears he wasn’t in Ottawa for any of them.

Conservative senators appointed by Harper whitewashed the report to conceal how extensive Mike Duffy's illegitimate attempts to collect expenses were.

Harper goes on attack as Duffy questions mount - Politics - CBC News

Conservative MPs defended the prime minister as they left their Wednesday caucus meeting.

"The PM had nothing to do with this. I think that's very clear," said Sault Ste. Marie MP Brian Hayes.

"The prime minister was truthful. He was honest and told us exactly what happened," echoed Jay Aspin, MP for Nippissing–Timiskaming.

But NDP MP and ethics critic Charlie Angus said there was evidence of a cover up.

"For crying out loud, even the senators are saying this stinks to high heaven. They said there was major inappropriate spending by Mike Duffy. Now Nigel Wright was in contact with the Senate. They were talking about what was going on, so certainly the prime minister must have known that these were really dodgy expense claims and then the secret cheque was cut to cover all this up," Angus said.

With the Senate calling in the police, how can the prime minister continue to act as if the cheque from Wright was "no big deal," Angus asked.

We need an independent inquiry into this, pretending that Stephen Harper is unaccountable to anyone is getting really old.

 

[captain morgan]

At least we know where he stands, Harper promised to appoint no new senators and reform the upper house.

He's now appointed more than 50, some of whom are acting as if they're totally above the rules and used his control there to ram through legislation.

Watching people like yourself get your panties in such a knot over this has been worth every (proverbial) cent on the Duffy file.

Hell, if Duffy decided to run as an MP, I'd vote for him in a heartbeat just to see the feigned outrage over this.

 

[tay]

Duffy should have been paying attention when he was a reporter............

 

[Spade]

Senate finance data | Toronto Star

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

It's hard to determine where Duffy's greed ended, he tried to be appointed a minister without portfolio so he could get a car and driver.

Duffy Sought Cabinet Perks For 'Expanded' Party Role, Email Says

The email goes on, "I suggested they make me a min without portfolio, so I get a staff, car and more resources to deal with the pr fallout etc. he laughed and sid he didn't think THAT was within the realm of the Cons fund."

The Conservative Fund of Canada is the party's war chest, funded by supporters' donations, and at one time was chaired by Gerstein. Gerstein, a former president of Peoples Jewellers, was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the same time as Duffy, in January 2009.

So, continues the email, "What do I demand?" Then, in a bracketed sentence, he seems to answer his own question: "(That the Cons fund hire my private company, and I use the cash to hire additional staff to assist with these gigs?)"

Finally, the email asks whether he should have a separate meeting with "Marjory," in apparent reference to the government Senate Leader Majory LeBreton. He adds, "Should I request a one on one with Stephen? To what end?" He signs off, "Mike, at home."

Harper appointed Duffy, this is all on him.

 

[tay]

Man some people are just shameless. So much for the Democratic way of getting yourself elected.

Six months after he was appointed to the Senate, Mike Duffy was in consultations with Conservatives about an expanded role in the party and increased compensation, including his own suggestion he be named a minister without portfolio to get a car and staff


Perks. He just wanted the perks. Once again, its all about him, rather than about any benefit to us working stiff who are paying his bills.

And then, the CBC tracks down Marjory LeBreton who gets all amazed that Duffy would have these expectations:

Marjory LeBreton, speaking to reporters in the Senate foyer, said, " It's ridiculous. The idea that the prime minister or anyone would pass over elected members of the House of Commons and name Mike Duffy as a minister? It's so ridiculous it's not even funny. It's totally bizarre. Who knows, who knows, but when I read it, when I read it — I don't know who the recipient of the email was — but when I read it I went, like, there isn't a chance of a snowball in hell of this ever happening, and I never spoke to him about it."

OOOPSY. Someones memory is fading.....................
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Of course, it was just three years before that the newly elected Harper appointed Montreal bagman Michael Fortier to the Senate and immediately made him public works minister.

But the objections to this appointment carried about the same weight with the Harper Cons as a snowball in hell.

Michael Fortier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia