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Orchard's nomination could get scuttled

SASKATOON -- A political tug-of-war is brewing within the Liberal party over David Orchard's campaign for the nomination in the sprawling northern riding of Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River.

Orchard was a prominent Saskatchewan backer of Stephane Dion during his successful race for Liberal Leader in 2006.

But there are now media reports that Dion, at the request of Liberal House Leader and Wascana MP Ralph Goodale, will override the nomination race and instead appoint NDP MLA Joan Beatty as the candidate.

The news that the nomination process might be circumvented has been met with mixed emotions from the camp of Orchard, who first rose to prominence in the late 1980s as an anti-free trade activist and later ran twice for the leadership of the defunct federal Progressive Conservative party.

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=b874e528-68ab-40ae-b338-cd75cbcd1b0a

Dion will not be around for very long now. After the next election it will be back to the Martin/Chretin groups to fight it out. The grass roots growth and funding for the Liberals just evaporated.

Look for more people to move to the greens.


http://www.liberal.ca/story_13459_e.aspx


I just can not believe that Dion is cutting off his main support. Seems like he really is politically inept.