Mud-slinging continues as election day gets closer
Posted May 6, 2017 9:01 am.
Last Updated June 15, 2017 4:13 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – BC Liberal Party insiders quickly took to social media this week to share details about an NDP candidate ordered to pay an animal rights activist $75,000 dollars after defaming him online.
Gerry Taft, who’s the mayor of Invermere and wants to be the next MLA for Columbia River-Revelstoke, has indicated he plans to appeal.
Meanwhile, the Campaign Director for the BC Liberals is facing trial later this year on two charges of mischief and one count of breach of trust.
Laura Miller‘s Toronto trial is slated to start September 11th.
She’s accused of destroying email records when she was deputy chief to former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and plans to build two gas plants were cancelled in 2011.
The charges were laid in 2015 and if convicted, she could face up to 10 years in prison.
NDP leader John Horgan was asked what he thinks about her still being part of the team trying to re-elect Christy Clark.
“Certainly, it was a surprising choice, but Christy Clark has made a lot of choices that haven’t helped British Columbians and, at the end of the day, those are the choices that I’ve been focusing on –choices about health care, choices about education. Those are the things that matter to people. The courts in Ontario will take care of the issues surrounding the director of the BC Liberal campaign, but what we need to focus on for Tuesday is a government that has been neglecting education, neglecting health care and making life more difficult for people.”
Miller’s also one of the people linked to the ‘I am Linda’ controversy.
During a recent campaign stop in North Vancouver, Clark refused to stop and chat with a woman who told her she wouldn’t vote for her.
Miller wrongly suggested on social media Linda Higgins was an NDP plant.
Several days later, party executives issued an apology stating they “stand corrected.”
