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applegrove

(118,600 posts)
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 12:30 AM Dec 2019

What is the word for a party taking out their leader? (Conservative leader)

Accusations of 'secret slush fund' for kids' tuition led to Scheer's downfall, says Conservative insider

 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5394395

Scheer announced Thursday he would step down as Conservative Party leader

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What led to Andrew Scheer's decision to step away from the leadership of the Conservative Party leadership? MP Michael Barrett and strategist Kory Teneycke have opposing views on the matter.  15:05

Kory Teneycke, Stephen Harper's former communications director, says he believes Andrew Scheer stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party as a direct result of revelations he used money from party coffers to pay his children's private school tuition.

"It's routine for party leaders to expense things like clothing or ... [things] that are related to one's party leader activities. It's not normal to expense private school tuition for your children. It's in no way related to your duties as leader of the party," Teneycke, who has been openly critical of Scheer's leadership, told As It Happens host Carol Off.

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The party's executive director, Dustin van Vugt, said that Scheer and his family were presented with "a standard offer to cover costs associated with moving his family from Regina to Ottawa." Those funds included schooling, said van Vugt.

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What is the word for a party taking out their leader? (Conservative leader) (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2019 OP
Of course he did. canuckledragger Dec 2019 #1
I don't think he thought he was doing anything wrong by accepting applegrove Dec 2019 #2

canuckledragger

(1,636 posts)
1. Of course he did.
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 07:13 AM
Dec 2019

It's why a LOT of these cons get into politics in the first place...not to serve the public, but steal and grift as much as they can at the taxpayer expense.

applegrove

(118,600 posts)
2. I don't think he thought he was doing anything wrong by accepting
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 05:17 PM
Dec 2019

money for the difference between Saskatchewan and Ottawa in cost for a private school education or two. That's the problem with followers of right wing doctrine: they are often pawns as much as they are grifters.

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