Conservatives React to Hudak's Desperate, Dishonest, Homophobic Flyer
TORONTO, Oct. 5, 2011 /CNW/ - Prominent Conservatives are reacting to Tim Hudak's desperate, dishonest, and homophobic flyer.
John Tory, former PC leader, CFRB, October 3, 2011:
"I can't imagine, first of all, what strategy this embodies in terms of
this late in an election...And secondly, it seems to go against
everything certainly that we're supposed to be explaining, and getting
kids to embrace and understand. They don't have to be accepting for
their own personal lives, but just accepting of the fact that people
are different. This just seems inflammatory."
Jaime Watt, former co-chair, Ontario PC campaigns, Power and Politics, October 3,
2011:
"I can't explain it for the life of me...I don't want to cause my
friends that are running that campaign any trouble today, but I can't
understand this, and I certainly can't understand the rationale that
would actually take them off the agenda and have this a media issue for
the last push of the campaign."
Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun columnist and former Hudak PC candidate, via Facebook:
"I am so disgusted with today's comments by Willowdale PC candidate
Vince Agovino that he would fight to keep 'queer issues' out of
Catholic schools. Is this man running in the U.S. Bible Belt of the
U.S. or in Toronto? I thought we'd moved beyond such nonsense."
Gerry Nicholls, Conservative Commentator and former head of the National Citizens
Coalition with Stephen Harper, AM640, October 3, 2011:
"Probably not the kind of thing that the conservatives want to be
talking about right now...This is not the kind of the thing that they
want talking about a couple of days before the election because it kind
of plays to the liberal Narrative that these guys are to the right of
the political spectrum...I`m surprised they did..."
Jim Richards, CFRB, October 3, 2011:
"If you believe that this is the curriculum, you're too stupid for me to
vote for you. You are absolutely too stupid for me to vote for you. You
know that that's not the curriculum; You know that that is not the
curriculum. How am I supposed to vote for someone that is that dumb?
How am I supposed to vote for someone who is that stupid? You want to
run this province? And you're that much of an ignoramus?"
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