Always Get Their Man !!
This week, the OPP laid charges against Sudbury Liberal Supporter – Gerry Lougheed - ostensibly because he offered a bribe to - then Liberal candidate Andrew Olivier - to drop out of the February 5th 2015 By-election in favour of a Queen’s Park anointed replacement.
Let you be the Judge as to whether or not they – the Ontario Provincial Police - have sufficient cause for their action:
In a telephone call recorded by Olivier, Lougheed said the following:
“We should have the broader discussion about what is it that you’d be most interested in doing and then decide what shape that could take whether it’s a full-time or a part-time job at a constituency office, whether it is appointments to boards or commissions, whether it is also going on the executive.”
Looks pretty conclusive to me – don’t you think. They’ve got dear Mr. Lougheed ‘dead to rights’ !
But of course those quotes were not made by Gerry Lougheed – local Sudbury Grit – but rather by Wynne’s Deputy Chief of Staff – Patricia Sorbara.
Below is what Lougheed was actually caught on tape saying -
“The Premier wants to talk to you. We would like to present to you options in terms of appointments, jobs, whatever,” .
And I guess, by mere happenstance, shortly thereafter Premier Wynne did in fact call and speak with Olivier. Quelle Surprise.
So why dear Reader was Lougheed charged by the OPP and Sorbara not?
Excellent question – could it be connected with the OPP’s Union …’forcefully’ .. so to speak – supporting Wynne during the last election?
Even Ontario’s Chief Electoral Office when referring both Sorbara and Lougheed to the police for investigation called their attempts at bribery “unprecedented”.
To conclude – the OPP certainly ‘Got Their Man’ in this case but just a certainly ‘Not Their Woman’ or more correctly – ‘Not Their Women’.
As I see it…
“K. D. Galagher’
