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Klander's comments require an apology
Sunday, January 08, 2006 at 08:24 PM

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Patrick W Brown, the Conservative candidate for Barrie, is demanding that the incumbent, Liberal MP Aileen Carroll, apologize for (former) Liberal Party (Ontario) Executive Vice President Mike Klander's smear on Barrie:

Barrie’s Liberal candidate must immediately denounce and condemn “totally insensitive and absurd” statements that slander opponents of the Liberal Party and Barrie, the city she represents in Parliament.

Not only were the people of Barrie attacked by the Liberals, the whole City came under the shameless broadside of a top Liberal strategist Mike Kander who wrote:

“Check out the Live 8 website and the list of all the concert venues: Hyde Park, London; Circus Maximus, Rome; Red Square, Moscow, Palais de Verdaillis, Paris; Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Siegessaule, Berlin and finally Park Place in Barrie. Every one time I say that I can’t help but using the Monster Truck Announcer Voice – PARK PLACE IN BARRIE.”

“Barrie! Where the hell is Barrie? You know, London, Rome, Moscow, Berlin and Barrie. I’m sorry but I don’t even know what the hell the Siegessaule is, but it sure sounds more impressive than PARK PLACE.”

“I call upon Aileen Carroll to not only denounce the comments by the Executive Vice President of the Ontario wing of her federal party, but to apologize to everyone concerned, especially the citizens of Barrie,” said Patrick Brown, Conservative candidate for Barrie.

“To make derogatory comments about election opponents, especially making fun of physical deformities, is in outrageously poor taste,” said Brown. “But to show complete disrespect to a whole community, especially to one as significantly important to Canada as Barrie, is shocking.”

“It’s just another example of how crass, crude and contemptuous those running the Liberal Party really are toward what they perceive to be average Canadians.”

If you live in or around Barrie, or heck, even if you just like the place, and you think the people of Barrie deserve to have an MP who will defend them against nasty statements about their city made by a top Liberal strategist, send an email to Aileen Carroll, or give her a call at (704) 719-9039, and tell her you think Patrick Brown deserves an answer.

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