Shocking revelations tonight from the CP's Joan Bryden. The Young Liberals of Canada created fake campus clubs to cheat for Paul Martin!
Young Liberals have for decades been criticized for engaging in some of the worst dirty tricks when it comes to leadership races. Chief among the complaints has been the creation of phony campus clubs that exist only on paper. In 2003, more than 150 campus clubs were accredited by the YLC, the vast majority of which sent Martin supporters to the convention. Diamond said the current executive thoroughly reviewed all the clubs and whittled the number of legitimate clubs down to 53.
"In order to maintain the credibility of (YLC) as an organization, we unfortunately had to not ratify a lot of them," he said.
As a veteran of one or two ugly youth political battles myself, I have to admit that even I found this number staggering. YLC president Richard Diamond is basically ackowledging that two-thirds of his organization's campus clubs were fake. That is astonishing!
I have never met Diamond, but I see he is supporting Scott Brison for leader. That makes me feel sorry for him, because I'm sure he fell for the same phony nonsense Brison used to con several of my friends into supporting him in the 2003 PC leadership race.
