I wonder who Brent St Denis is backing?

In case you are not up on your cast of Liberal MPs, Brent St Denis is the member of parliament for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing. He has been an MP since 1993.

As far as I can tell he has not indicated which candidate for the Liberal leadership he is supporting.

You might wonder why I should care. Well, the reason I'm wondering is because it looks like one of his staffers was the one who created the "pubnight" PDF file announcing the Stephane Dion fundraiser that has been a topic of discussion.

The staffer is stdenb0@parl.gc.ca (the MP's account is StDenB, and his staffers are assigned the numbered email addresses 0 through 9, which is the standard way email addresses are created on the Hill, as far as I can figure).

The author of the PDF file is "stdenb0" -- there really is no other interpretation of that name.

Of course, individual Liberals can support whoever they choose. But if Mr St Denis is supporting, say, Michael Ignatieff over Stephane Dion, he might prefer that his staffers do their work on the Dion campaign more discreetly. It wouldn't do to have "StDenB" attached to Dion material.

On the other hand, Mr St Denis might be an undeclared Dion supporter. In that case, having his staff scribble up posters to help out Bryon Wilfert's staffer with the spam email and the big shindig fundraiser would be appropriate. Remember that Wilfert is a declared member of the Dion leadership team.

Yes, that would be entirely appropriate.

Well, except for the whole spam thing. And using government resources for fundraising.

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