Chakmate!
Farhan Chak has bowed to pressure and has informed the Liberal Party that he will not be the candidate for Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont. I have some thoughts on all of this.
Just received over Broadcast News:
Liberal candidate resigns amid controversy (Liberal-Candidate-Resign)
Source: Broadcast News
May 3, 2007 18:02OTTAWA - A Liberal candidate for the next federal election has resigned amid mounting controversy over his intemperate views and exaggerated academic credentials.
Farhan Chak offered his resignation today and it was accepted by the party.
Chak was nominated last month to carry the Liberal banner in Edmonton-Millwoods-Beaumont.
Since then, Tory bloggers have had a field day, digging up articles written by Chak which revealed some impolitic views about Israel, India and Islamic terrorists.
They've also cast doubt on Chak's claim that he's earned a PhD from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom.
(BN)
Offered his resignation? Told to offer his resignation? I guess it doesn't matter much now. Either the Liberal Party had enough of this guy, or Farhan Chak decided that he couldn't afford to have any more skeletons dragged out of hs closet. But the Liberal Party in Alberta is damaged as a result:
One of the main sources of the article is Sital Nanuan, an individual who lost the race to Mr. Chak to become the Liberal candidate for Edmonton-Millwoods-Beaumont. This man is the same man who tried to cheat the system by sneaking in voters to ballot booths after the voting deadline in a sickening attempt to topple Farhan Chak who won the support and admiration of his constituency.
I can tell you that Sital Nanuan was never in touch with me, but in any case, Chak's supporters described Nanuan as "sickening". Now that Chak has been forced out in disgrace, I can't imagine the Liberals in Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont uniting behind Nanuan or anyone else.
Does the story end here? Maybe not, as Kevin Libin in the National Post reported:Sital Nanuan, who lost the nomination to Mr. Chak, says he was aware of his opponent's past writings from Internet searches but chose not to raise them during the campaign. "It could have backfired," Mr. Nanuan says. Mr. Chak had strong backing from the Mill Woods Muslim community, he explains, and was popular because he was Edmonton campaign manager for Stephane Dion's Liberal leadership bid. "You think they'll listen to me? Because he says, 'I have been working with Dion,' so the whole committee, they wanted to help him out."
So Dion's man has been tossed aside in what has to be a particularly ugly and embarrassing manner. Stephane Dion has been silent throughout this episode. People who looked to Stephane Dion for leadership are probably disappointed. Others who have aligned themselves to Dion might be wondering if they made a mistake. And those who oppose Stephane Dion's leadership might feel emboldened, at least in the Edmonton area, to wrest control of those riding associations from Dion's people.
I expect that if any of this happens, it will be very much under the radar. But I'll keep my ear to the ground nevertheless.
As for Chak, I suppose he can go back to England to actually get the doctorate. Or perhaps he has other plans. I've wondered why he would go to such lengths to secure a nomination in a riding that the Liberals almost certainly could never win. Lying to the party about his previous writings, his brushes with the law, his academic credentials -- he took big risks for this nomination. What was so important about a nomination for a riding that he will almost never represent in Ottawa? The only thing I can think of is that Farhan Chak or his family were planning to use an election run to enhance their standing in the community in some way. Win or lose, a well-fought election could have worked in their favour. A disgraceful exit like this, though, almost certainly does not, which might explain why Chak fought so hard to hold on to the nomination.
We might never know.
I'll be discussing this on “The World Tonight” with Rob Breakenridge of AM770 CHQR tonight at 10:35pm Eastern Time.
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Right.....wh0's next....batter up!
Posted by: Rich at May 3, 2007 07:05 PM
Beautiful, man, beautiful. I have a tear in my eye....
Posted by: Jeff Drebit at May 3, 2007 07:06 PM
Maybe Chak is a green shill. As stated earlier too bad it's not during an election. All the same your work on this is the reason he's gone. Congratulations- may the Edward R Morrow award be yours- or its eqivalent in the Blogging world. Very fine wok indeed.
Posted by: Dave from Campbell River at May 3, 2007 07:08 PM
Good on you, Steve. Keep up the great work.
Posted by: Brian in Calgary at May 3, 2007 07:20 PM
The Liberals have to be broiling with anger because this scam would have flown if not for you (Janke).
I'm gonna bet that the Liberals are gonna go apeshit/wild to "regulate" blogs from here on in.
Posted by: ZiLLa at May 3, 2007 07:21 PM
*hit send too soon*
Good job Steve. Thanks
Posted by: ZiLLa at May 3, 2007 07:23 PM
Congrads!
Posted by: Darcey at May 3, 2007 07:25 PM
You should be carefull about saying he was lying about the criminal charges.
It may be that he was issued a "Form 9" which is an " Apparance Notice Issued by a Peace Officer" and is based on an allegation of an offence and not an actual charge. If that was the case and the allegations were withdrawn before he was formally charged then there was no requirement for him to disclose.
I say that for your benefit not his. His writings and lying about credentials is disgusting enough on their own. I'd just hate to see you dragged into a defamation action as a way to get back at you.
Posted by: Nbob at May 3, 2007 07:27 PM
Hohoho Another spectacular flameout.
Good job, Steven. I had a feeling this story had legs.
Posted by: Levesque at May 3, 2007 08:02 PM
Well done, Steve.
Some idiot over at SDA tried to equate George W. Bush's affecting a Texan accent with Farhan Chak's saying he has a Ph.D. That's liberal thinking for you: no thinking. One's an affectation, perhaps, whereas the other one is fraud, is it not?
I'm still trying to figure out if you ever sleep... ;-)
Posted by: 'been around the block at May 3, 2007 08:27 PM
Good work Steve. I wish we had someone like you back in 1993. I lived in Markham Ont., then and the liberals nominated Jag Bhaduria, a man who would appear to have lied about his background, eduction, and experience, threatened his employer with violence and obtained his nomination fraudulently.He was elected in 1993 and Markham residence tried to get him to step down. Finally he was dumped by the liberals and they washed there hands of him. If we had someone like you at that time, he might never had been elected.I volunteered for the Reform party back then so I heard a lot of what went on.
Posted by: Judi at May 3, 2007 08:41 PM
Good job. Watch your back.
Posted by: IMP at May 3, 2007 09:31 PM
Good job. Watch your back.
Posted by: INP at May 3, 2007 09:31 PM
George Bush is an incompetent no doubt but if what they say in the media is true than this Mr. Chak character is a whining baby and a serious embarrassment to himself, his family, his community and his party. This man seems to be destroying the credibility of minorities and minorities alike across Canada.
His 15 minutes are up and after this any liberal or otherwise would be a bigger fool than Mr. Chak himself to go near him. He talks about defamation lawsuits? But does he really want people to dig further into his skeleton closet? Who knows what else we might uncover. The story surrounding this loser just seems to get worse and he is just a low level nobody right now and it looks like he is going to stay that way. He needs to apologize to his supporters for being such a dumb SOB (excuse the language but this man just seems so stupid to me that I am outraged).
It appears he gives "stupidity" as it applies to Canadian Politics a whole new meaning. I mean some of the postings on this website are so emotional and detailed that you think Mr. Chak himself is writing them. No he couldn’t be that stupid. The tragedy is that he has somehow convinced at least a few individuals (with Canadian citizenship) that he deserves their vote. I wonder what they think of him now. Well not to worry because his only political option left is to go back to Durham and attempt a successful bid for class clown.
Posted by: Impartial Observer at May 3, 2007 09:38 PM
At first I was doubtful and perhaps in someways hopeful but now I have to agree that I think Chak is a pathetic loser with no political future in Canada and thank you Steve for exposing this nut. But Miss Cindy Carlton has posted that she has known the Chak Family for 20 years and that the father was a police officer in Toronto (along with many other intimate details). She may be basing this on what the family has told her and we have all seen how deceptive Mr. Chak can be. Someone should check to see if this fellow actually was a police officer; I mean impersonating a police officer is a serious offence in Canada and intuition tells me that perhaps the apple has not fallen too far from the tree. I don't like making false accussations so I would avoid labelling his claim to being a former police officer false but I certainly would not take his word for it as we have already seen how much trouble Mr. Chak has in being forthcoming and strait forward.
Posted by: Concerned at May 3, 2007 10:22 PM
This would have been better if it would have came about in the middle of an election.
Congrats and keep up the good work.
Posted by: rod at May 3, 2007 10:32 PM
Nicely done, SJ.
It's almost a pity this wasn't challenged until the next election, though. Would have added more pizzazz watching the libs flame out with an election a week or so away.
mhb23re
Posted by: mhb at May 3, 2007 11:34 PM
Harper can still use the fact that Staphanie did nothing, it was left to this lying bastard to resign.
Posted by: Pissedoff at May 4, 2007 12:14 AM
This sort of thing could have happened to any party, or volunteer organisation or company for that matter: if you bring in enough people, sooner or later one of them is going to be a boob.
The real mystery is...how was this guy around for so long before the Liberales turfed him? Surely there must have been whispers about this before the last few days' blowup.
Posted by: bill at May 4, 2007 12:17 AM
steve
thanks
for that nut!
can we deport him ....someplace?
he does not belong to Canada
thanks Steve
Posted by: george at May 4, 2007 12:42 AM
"I've wondered why he would go to such lengths to secure a nomination in a riding that the Liberals almost certainly could never win."
Actually, that was one of two Liberal ridings in Edmonton for a long time. However, the riding was held by Kilgour, initially a PC candidate that flipped to the Liberal party when Mulroney tanked.
So "almost certainly could never win" is over the top, IMHO. Pretty f*ing unlikely? Another story, although that riding is pretty high in immigrant %age, so Liberal is not impossible.
Posted by: Candace at May 4, 2007 12:52 AM
I’m a journalist. I have been doing vast research on Steve Jackoff. It turns out that Stevie Wonder here works at McDonald’s. He likes to watch anime porn. He comes home at night to kiss the facebook picture of Farhan Chak who he seems to have developed a bizarre infatuation with. I have no problem with homosexuals myself but I find this behavior a bit puzzling to say the least. Definitely something that should be looked into further. Perhaps Farhan Chak rejected Steve’s affections and Steve decided to retaliate in return. He’s a bit of a suicidal man as I talked to his mother the other day. Hey Steve you’re also kinda chubby hey. Ever thought about Jenny Craig? So how many Big Macs do you chomp down while writing this kind of crap? Awww look I found your picture.You’re even uglier than I imagined. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41241000/jpg/_41241098_stevej66.jpg ..You want to be famous don’t you fatty?
Posted by: devon at May 4, 2007 04:11 AM
I wonder if this is the same Devon?
http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ceskblanchardblog/newsItems/departments/devon
Posted by: Grook at May 4, 2007 06:44 AM
Great headline too.
Posted by: anon at May 4, 2007 06:58 AM
In the spirit of appreciating art where one finds it,
Nice title.
Posted by: kj at May 4, 2007 01:35 PM
Fatty? Excuse me Devon it's 10 after 4 in the morn and your writing hateful posts. And so filled with emotion you sound like Farhan, 'the pathetic fool', Chak, himself. But no that couldn't be could it? Because if you were, then that would only confirm how pathetic this Chak fellow really is. It seems Devon has been emotionally scarred and now he is lashing out at others he feels are responsible for Farhans discraceful performance. No Devon, if you wish to be angry with anyone start with the pathetic fool himself, after all it was he who lied about being a P.h.d.. If you are still unable to let sleeping dogs lie, then seek out professional help maybe then you won't be venting out hateful posts at 4 a.m. because doing so makes it seem like you are not to be taken seriously; just like this Chak fellow. I mean an earlier post said it right "his 15 minutes are up".
Posted by: Entertained By Fools at May 4, 2007 03:36 PM
*yawn* All these articles on Farhan Chak are getting rather boring. Come up with some new material.
Posted by: fred at May 4, 2007 07:31 PM
lol at Fred. You passed over 2 articles that have nothing to do with the massive tool that is Mr. Chak in order to tell us how bored you are.
Typical troll.
Posted by: Levesque at May 4, 2007 07:38 PM
It is unclear whether it was pressure from the riding brass or from Liberal party brass...who have an inate fear of police investigations...who saw this:
"And there are questions around a 1993 shooting incident at a local club in which an Edmonton man named Farhan Mujahid Chak, then 19-- which would make him the same age as the Liberal candidate -- was charged with use of a firearm during commission of an offence and possession of an illegal
weapon. (The candidate did not respond to requests for clarification on the charges.)"
Seems there may have been some bigger skeletons in the Chack closet than just falsifying educational info on the candidacy form. I wonder if the LPC background check includes criminal record...or perhaps this is a desired qualifyer these days?
Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at May 4, 2007 10:13 PM
"...articles written by Chak ... revealed some impolitic views about Israel, India and Islamic terrorists."
"Impolitic".
If a Conservative had been found to hold exreme views, he or she would be a "bigot" and a "racist"
Posted by: Mambo Bananapatch at May 4, 2007 11:39 PM
 
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