Things I would have liked to know during the campaign, a continuing series
This is Mark Bruneau, unsuccessful candidate for the Liberal nomination in Jeanne-Le Ber. Emphasis added:
"There were plenty of high-calibre candidates, myself included, like Liza Frulla, who she [Dion's Quebec lieutenant Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette] dismissed, double-crossed and pushed away."
Bruneau was heavily favoured to win the nomination until, he claims, his opponents called up the new party members his team recruited and told them they weren't permitted to vote. They lost by nine votes. [...]
"She called me a faggot," he said. "I chose to be a Liberal because it is a tolerant party and that is unacceptable."
Bruneau said he has numerous sources who would "testify to that fact."
- Dan Delmar, "Did Liberals give 110%?", The Métropolitain, October 30, 2008, p. 6
"There were plenty of high-calibre candidates, myself included, like Liza Frulla, who she [Dion's Quebec lieutenant Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette] dismissed, double-crossed and pushed away."
Bruneau was heavily favoured to win the nomination until, he claims, his opponents called up the new party members his team recruited and told them they weren't permitted to vote. They lost by nine votes. [...]
"She called me a faggot," he said. "I chose to be a Liberal because it is a tolerant party and that is unacceptable."
Bruneau said he has numerous sources who would "testify to that fact."
- Dan Delmar, "Did Liberals give 110%?", The Métropolitain, October 30, 2008, p. 6