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RSS FeedsPatrick Brown gets the green light to enter PC leadership race
(The Star Food)

 
 

22 february 2018 01:05:58

 
Patrick Brown gets the green light to enter PC leadership race
(The Star Food)
 


Exiled former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown’s bid to run for his old job has been approved by the party’s vetting committee.The controversial former Tory chief — forced to resign Jan. 25 after a sexual impropriety scandal involving teenage girls — was given the green light Wednesday by the PC provincial nomination committee.That means he has been permitted to seek the party crown against former MPP Christine Elliott, ex-Toronto councillor Doug Ford, rookie PC candidate Caroline Mulroney, and anti-sex education crusader Tanya Granic Allen.After a marathon four-and-a-half-hour Albany Club meeting, the nomination committee agreed by a margin of 3-2 to let Brown enter the race.Earlier in the day, Brown told Zoomer Radio AM740 that he was a victim of a “coup” last month.“Why are they doing all this? Why are they so petrified of my leadership? They know the grassroots of our party are rallying behind me,” the Simcoe North MPP said.Tory members vote online on a ranked ballot between March 2 and 8 with the winner announced March 10.Brown’s stunning decision last Friday to throw his hat in the ring for his former post has plunged the party into chaos. His announcement was the same day interim leader Vic Fedeli banished him from caucus. That means he now sits as an Independent MPP in the back row of a remote corner of the Legislature.Compounding the tumult, PC MPP Randy Hillier filed a complaint Tuesday with Ontario’s integrity commissioner over Brown’s personal finances, which are detailed in the annual public filing all members of provincial parliament must make.His concern includes how the 39-year-old bachelor could afford a $1.72 million mortgage on a $2.3 million Lake Simcoe waterfront home and who paid for his international travel with his 23-year-old girlfriend, a former Tory intern.Hillier is accusing Brown of violating the Members’ Integrity Act by not fully reporting all sour ...


 
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