Victoria Tory nomination candidate Faith Collins' husband has been excommunicated from the Octagon, an informal but influential association of capital city conservatives. At the association's most recent Friday lunch meeting, founding member Norm Fiss announced he could no longer break bread with Jim Collins - who has been attending those meetings for the past three months.
The reason: according to an insider, Ms. Collins thinks she lost her bid to become the Conservative candidate for Victoria because the winner, Saanich-Gulf Islands MP Gary Lunn's executive assistant Logan Wenham, cheated (evidently his use of balloons, bagpipes and popcorn machines at the constituency association's nomination meeting violated party rules). And, "people have been telling Norm," who ran Mr. Wenham's nomination campaign, "that Faith said she wouldn't work on any campaign he was involved with."
Mr. Fiss, a funeral director, took offense - despite assurances from Ms. Collins she had said no such thing. So the issue of whether her husband should be allowed to continue attending the Octagon's Friday meetings was put to a vote. And a majority decided he was no longer welcome at their downtown restaurant clubhouse (at least until the differences between Messrs. Fiss and Collins have been resolved).
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hehehe...sounds like a good old fashioned purge to me. I always wondered how the Tory's did it.
A right wing conspiracy in Victoria?? I hardly think so.
Who would call something "the octagon" in this day and age? It sounds like someone mixing a lunch meeting with a vivid imagination to me.
That said the "sacrifice goats and promote free trade" is one of the most originally funny lines I've read in a long time.
Keep up the good work.
Sure, sure, sure....
It's all just a big joke....nevermind, it's all business as usual...no NeanderCon conspiracy here....
And if you believe that, you would never believe that there is any connection between Ferry Contract frontrunner Aker Finnyards and Accenture....
It appears to me that even in places like Victoria where PCs have been in charge, even before the "merger", that even within the PC little sandbox, the egos mean more than policy or principles.
A few anti-Reform PCs who joined the Alliance are fighting with a few anti-Reform PCs who didn't join the Alliance. The pre-2000 takeover of the riding association (they actually moved the office outside of the riding!) drove the Reformers out and ensured that the pointlessness of whatever silly little games all these PCs are playing now is nothing more than political masturbation.
Fiss, eh? Is that any relation to Tannis Fiss of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation?
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