Picture someone turning on the kitchen lights in a run down house and watching the cockroaches scurry for dark corners. This analogy cannot be one that the local Ontario PC'ers want connected to them.
Yet, is there a more apt way of describing this?: http://m.yorkregion.com/news-story/4611941-mpp-pressured-somerville-out-of-newmarket-aurora-pc-race-document/
Councillor Maddie Di Muccio has every right to be furious. She has been falsely accused of criminal activity. I hope that she channels her anger to making some real changes in the local political scene.
The grass roots members of the local PC Party should be even more furious. This so-far-unnamed-MPP who is hiding in the dark corners, has schemed and plotted to ensure that local democracy was subverted/ hijacked.
If the unnamed-MPP responsible for pressuring Mr. Somerville continues to sit within caucus (which I personally doubt), he/she needs to be exposed for their undemocratic behaviour and unceremoniously dumped from caucus. There is no way for the PC Party to escape its dirty Tim Hudak past if new leader Jim Wilson and party president Richard Ciano leave this matter uninvestigated and festering like an open wound.
Mr. Somerville has been exposed as a snake. He issued a press release saying that his family was threatened but if you read today's article, Mr. Somerville did not repeat that claim. Now he says he dropped out of the race, "to minimize the harm caused to his family, reputation and career", says the article's author.
A threat is a criminal act punishable with jail time. Public embarrassment caused as a result of being a terribly flawed candidate for public office, is not a matter for either the police or the courts. Mr. Somerville would be wise to remember this truth.
The eventual acclaimed candidate, and subsequent loser, isn't named in the article but her presence behind the scenes can be clearly felt. Nobody believed that Jane Twinney would prevail over either Somerville or Di Muccio in a fair and open vote. Twinney's only chance of winning the nomination was through stabbing her competitors in the back, and that is exactly what she set out to do. The fact that she lost this long-held, never-voted-any-way-other-than-PC seat is a testament to the wisdom of the voting public which simply didn't accept Twinney as an authentic conservative.
And for anyone who believes that the outcome of the Newmarket-Aurora went Liberal in the last election had anything to do with this undemocratic candidate selection, I say, you are wrong. The PC'ers lost because they ran a bad campaign with a really bad candidate. Jane Twinney could not sell Tim Hudak's platform because she isn't actually a conservative.
Jane Twinney's voting record on Newmarket Council is to the left of the political spectrum. She never passed up a chance to tax and spend and abuse her position to block transparency. When she tried to do a 180, voters simply never bought her act.
My advice to the local PC'ers is simple: the PC'ers need to distance themselves from the charlatans associated with Frank Klees and his gang of dunder-heads. Recognize that Klees's jealousy caused the party to back the wrong candidate and lose the Newmarket-Aurora seat to the Liberals.
The local PC'ers need to move beyond Frank Klees and make peace with the Newmarket Councillor who should have been the party's candidate. The riding needs to rebuild. If you don't take my advice, it won't be too long for the Newmarket-Aurora riding to become a Liberal-stronghold just like the rest of York Region.
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