How much access does neo-nazi psychopath have to Conservative data

The ARC points out that Michelle Lisson (aka Michelle Erstikaitis), pictured right, seems to be working for Toronto Centre Conservative candidate, Kevin Moore. (Confirmed by BCL; see also DrDawg)

Two questions.

First, does Kevin Moore know this about Ms. Erstikaitis/Lisson:

TORONTO — A disturbed and violent convict who idolizes sex killer Paul Bernardo and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh told a judge yesterday she wanted to consent to being declared a dangerous offender.

Michelle Lyne Erstikaitis, 30, a diagnosed psychopath, told Justice Todd Archibald she wanted to plead guilty to assaulting her boyfriend and agreed to being declared a dangerous offender -- which means an indefinite sentence.

Second, what material does she have access to? Given that the Conservative Party has a voter-tracking database that tracks what party's lawn sign is in front of whose house, and what kind of pictures are displayed on whose facebook pages, should voters in Toronto Centre be concerned?

Update. Erstikaitis has been removed from the Conservative campaign (here).

Don't piss Ezra off, PETA

Or the kitten gets it.

Is Conservative Wally Daudrich against government health care?

Conservative Candidate in Churchill Wally Daudrich is providing some interesting fodder for bloggers:

• BCL: What Is Wally Doing?
• BCL: More Wally Daudrich
• Janet: Did the Con candidate Willy Daudrich learn creative writing from TeaParty?

Indeed, I've already pointed out a few eye-brow raisers from Wally's facebook page:

• Bouquets: Is Conservative Wally Daudrich a Tea Partier?
• Bouquets: Conservative Wally Daudrich calls the NDP communists

Now, indeed, the Press has taken notice. See Anti-abortion Tory candidate called Obama worst U.S. president, biggest liar by Jim Bronskill of the Canada Press, who noted this troubling post from Wally Daudrich's facebook page:

Big City Lib is surprised that this was the post that got press' attention. It strikes me, however, that what is especially important is not so much the name calling as the context.

Daudrich's outburst came following Obama's success in convincing the American congress to pass comprehensive health care bill, a bill (once its implemented) will provide Americans with greater access to more affordable health care. Readers will remember that opponents of the bill manufactured all manner of falsehoods about the legislation, most famously about prospective death panels, but also that the Obama health care fill would fund abortion (which wasn't so, see here, but that's a little beside the point).

And this, I think, raises a more fundamental question. If Daudrich is opposed to Obama's health care reform, which relies much less on government and much more on private insurance than the Canadian system, what does he make of Canadian medicare?

Update. CTV news now on the story.

Is Conservative Wally Daudrich a Tea Partier?

Yesterday BigCity Liberal posted twice on Wally Daudrich, Conservative Candidate in Churchill:

• What Is Wally Doing?
• More Wally Daudrich

I see now that deBeauxOs has also noticed Daudrich, asking Did the Con candidate Wally Daudrich learn creative writing from TeaParty?

The answer, apparently, is yes. His facebook page (which is full of interesting stuff!) lists his activities and interests. There are a number of other eye-brow raisers, to which we may return. For now, however, it seems that Daudrich includes among his activities both the American Tea Party Patriots and its Canadian imitator the Tea Party of Canada.

Conservative Wally Daudrich calls the NDP communists

Yesterday BigCity Liberal posted twice on Wally Daudrich, Conservative Candidate in Churchill:

• What Is Wally Doing?
• More Wally Daudrich

We can add to this Glen McGregor at the Ottawa Citizen criticizes Wally Daudrich, for red-baiting in attacking his NDP opponent, Nikki Ashton, as a "Chinese educated socialist". The implication is clear. (She went to a Liberal Arts college in Hong Kong.)

Sadly, this is not Mr. Daudrich's only such outburst, as a peruse of Wally Daudrich's facebook page shows:



Calling the NDP communists? That's so, 1980s!

Marty Burke: Not there for you, Guelph students!

Instead he's apparently sent an operative to keep you from voting.

$9,460 for Harper's haircuts during the G20?

"According to Fraser, the Harper government expensed $9,460 for five "upscale haircuts" for the Prime Minister." Wow.

Update. For more on Harper's haircut at the G20.

Update 2. Oops. The sentinal dispatch is satire. As you were.

immanuel Kant -- wrong on metaphysics

Conservative candidate Marty Burke scrubs controversial views from website

Yesterday Scott Tribe blogged about the controversial opinions that Marty Burke, Conservative candidate in Guelph, has shared in various letters-to-the-editor in recent years, including:

• denouncing the war in Afghanistan "a near worthless operation" undertaken with the purpose of "saving face for a useless Liberal government"
• making thinly veiled racist criticisms of the choice of Michaëlle Jean as governor general

Another letter (made in the aftermath of Harper's failure to gain Canada a seat on the United Nation's Security Council) seems to advocated suspending payment of Canada's dues to the UN.

If Burke didn't understand how out-of-sync with his constituents such views are, he seems to know now. To the left is a copy of his webpage as of a couple weeks ago (webcache via Google). To the right is what he webpage looks like now. All his letters-to-the-editor seem to have been removed.