CBC;
Liberal party officials shut down a website showing how much money leadership candidates have raised Wednesday after personal information about the hopefuls was inadvertently included.
The party had posted lists of donations received by each of the 10 candidates on its website Wednesday afternoon. However, the information was quickly pulled from the internet after the discovery that it had mistakenly included the candidates’ home phone numbers and addresses.
That wasn’t the only problem with the website, according to some of the candidates. Several camps complained that tens of thousands in donations were not included in the tallies because they hadn’t yet been processed by the Liberal party.
Candidates must funnel campaign donations through the party in order to provide tax receipts.
Hours later, many candidates released their own, more up-to-date tallies of their donations. According to their figures:
* Bob Rae had donations of $478,750 by the end of July and loans of $275,000.
* Michael Ignatieff had raised $373,922 to July 31, with loans of $125,000.
* Gerard Kennedy had raised $361,503 up to Aug. 12, with loans of $200,000.
* Joe Volpe had raised $340,000 up to July 31, with no loans.
* Scott Brison had raised $230,000 up to Aug. 22, with loans of $200,000.
* Stéphane Dion had raised $155,000 up to Aug. 22, with loans of $530,000.
* Carolyn Bennett had raised $77,350 up to Aug. 22, with a loan of $35,000.
Before the campaign donor section of the website was shut down, it showed Ken Dryden had raised $49,194, Martha Hall Findlay had amassed $36,835 and Hedy Fry had brought in $15,061 by the end of July.
The campaign is the first to be run under new federal finance rules, which limit individual donations to $5,400 and prohibit contributions from corporations and trade unions.
Many of the candidates have publicly commented on the difficulty of fundraising under the new rules.
Not to mention the difficulty of fundraising when forced to admit they’re Liberals. (“Excuse me? Isn’t that what Quebec advertising agencies are for?”)
h/t Maz2 in the comments
More on the self-destructing LPOC.
LOL, the Liberals are toast.
(Deep breath, exhale, ahhhhhhhhhhhh)
Man, its a great time to be a Conservative! 🙂
I’m concerned that too many Conservatives are going to get Too Cocky about the liberal mess.
In spite of the pathetic squabling and disarray of their internal functions there is allways the (MSM )5th estate sentiment for the Libs that we have to contend with.
Remember when the Reform/PC/Alliance disfunction was being bandied by the MSM?
Do you see that happening now re; the Libranos?
Nope!
As soon as the dust settles you will see all the resources of our national media ballyhooing the ” New Reborn/ Rejuvinated LPC!
“loans” yeah BS more like skirting the rules.
Sure, Dion will repay $530,000, and Rae will repay $275,000,… that’s what will happen.
Interesting Numbers associated with these two:
* Joe Volpe had raised $340,000 up to July 31, with no loans.
The only LIbrano with No Debt? Something smells fishy here!
* Stéphane Dion had raised $155,000 up to Aug. 22, with loans of $530,000.
A $375k financial deficit with a debt to asset ratio of 2.42/1 accumulated while positioning for power in the LPC! I wonder who the lenders are?
‘Just when you think that the Librano$ can’t sink any lower, they take a plunge into the deepest, darkest depths of a scummy, smelly swamp. Glug, glug, glug…
Do I hear a faint voice calling “help me! help me!”?
I never thought I’d feel sorry for a Liberal Leadership Candidate, but I can’t help wondering what’s going through Michael Ignatieff’s mind at this point: “What the He** am I doing here and what the **** has this party I’m now a prisoner of morphed into since the last time I looked?”
Good questions, Iggy. This Frankenstein’s monster is on a rampage.
As someone on another blog points out, “It’s an implosion due to [decades long] systemic rot.” The Liberals have made their bed and now they have to lie in it, but what a mess. The sheets are badly torn and smeared, and the bed itself has been smashed to pieces.
Unfortunately, it’s a public bed-in that we all have to watch. I just hope that our national conscience hasn’t been so badly degraded and numbed by these Librano stooges and imposters, and their hangers on, that Canadians are incapable of recognizing what’s happening.
Remember when the Reform/PC/Alliance disfunction was being bandied by the MSM?
Do you see that happening now re; the Libranos?Nope!
Agreed. The reason being that the Liberals have no split in their Party the same way as the “disfunction” fiasco you just mentioned. The Liberals are still one Party, except that they are all going down together instead of in parts like the Reform/PC/Alliance did for so long. Right now for the Liberals, this is the best its going get and it can certaibly get worse.
As soon as the dust settles you will see all the resources of our national media ballyhooing the ” New Reborn/ Rejuvinated LPC!
That is EXACTLY what is going to happen when they finally get around to their pathetic little leadership convention. When they finally pick their “leader”, the media is undoubtedly going to endorse it as a Liberal resurgence. The thing is, when the election finally rolls around, the CPC will have an awesome record to run on and the Liberals will have NOTHING.
The Liberals have already been given a shot to defeat this Government based on something they didn’t believe in and they folded like a cheap suit. Now they are in an unenviable place of once again supporting something (THE SOFTWOOD DEAL) for political expediency at the cost of their so-called “principles”, or voting it down in a vote of confidence and trigger an election they cannot win.
As I’ve said, take a deep breath boys and girls, and enjoy the air, its a great time to be a Conservative. As Timbuk 3 so eloquently stated, “the future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades”.
Kate, I think your #’s on S.Dion may need a revision – raised a total of $155K but has loans of $530K? And this guy worked on Bay Street in a financial business? No wonder he left the Conservatives.
Oh, my dawg, OMMAG is prescient: OMMAG said…
“As soon as the dust settles you will see all the resources of our national media ballyhooing the ” New Reborn/ Rejuvinated LPC!”
Et, voila… The New Democratic LPC.
The money quote: “The Liberal Party [aka Librano$… we bought it, we own it] belongs to all of us, and we must collectively agree to change it. Let the discussions begin.” $$$
August 23, 2006
Cutting the red ribbon
Back in June the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt reported “the federal Liberals have decided their famous “big red machine” – the sprawling, national party organization that runs elections and leadership contests – has to be scrapped if the party is to beat the Conservatives in the next election.” That decision was part of the recommendations being developed by the Liberal’s red ribbon task force. And today, the task force – which is responsible for reforming the party – distributed its final report to constituency association presidents across the country. The following is a complete copy of that document, which hasn’t yet been released to the public.
August 2006
THE LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA’S
RED RIBBON TASK FORCE
FINAL REPORT
A Party Built for Everyone
A Party Built to Win
A u g u s t 2 0 0 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS. blah blah blah…-
http://www.publiceyeonline.com/archives/001722.html
How does one qualify for “loans” in the $100k’s? From a bank? I assume they are not using political capital for collateral…
The Liberals have “cash-starved camps”.
Auditor-General S. Fraser: She found that $100 million was paid to a variety of communications agencies in the form of fees and commissions and said the program was basically designed to generate commissions for these companies rather than to produce any benefit for Canadians. (cbc.ca)
Librano$ are cash-starved. Call Alfonso Gagliano, Chuck Guite, Chretien/Martin, Tamil Tiger$$$$$$$ etc. …-
VANCOUVER (CP) – The fabled big red machine desperately needs a tune-up.
That’s the conclusion some Liberals have drawn following a three-day caucus retreat that was chaotic at times, obscured by self-induced controversy at other times. Interim leader Bill Graham insisted Thursday that the gathering was a great success. …
Mercer declined to comment on another, more serious foul-up which the various leadership camps blamed squarely on party headquarters in Ottawa: The release Wednesday of the latest lists of donors to each of the leadership contenders.
The party posted the lists late in the day on its website, pages of donations that were not tallied to provide totals for any of the candidates.
Reporters were in the midst of adding up the numbers themselves when the party shut down the website, having discovered that it had inadvertently posted the home addresses and phone numbers of the candidates.
Privately, senior organizers with various camps were furious that the party had not posted tens of thousands of dollars worth of donations which had not yet been processed by the party, through which donations are funnelled for the purpose of issuing tax receipts.
The party has been taking three weeks or more to process donations, a delay that most cash-starved camps find incomprehensible.
Moreover, some camps were irate that the reporting of donations was inconsistent from candidate to candidate. For instance, loans were reported for some candidates but not for others.
By Thursday, the party had re-posted the donation reports, with totals but without any of the names of donors.
The confusion had senior organizers privately grumbling about the “incompetence” of party officials and demanding a thorough “house cleaning” at headquarters.
Several insiders suggested party officials know their jobs will likely be over once a new leader is chosen in December and are, thus, putting in only half-hearted effort now.
But another insider said party officials are bogged down in paperwork, overwhelmed by all the new rules and financial reporting requirements imposed by reforms to political financing laws in 2003. This is the first leadership contest to be run under the new laws.
Like how much $$$$ they get from trial lawyers and how much they get from the hollywood left and how much they get from certian forgein sources