Simply unappreciative. No understanding of what "I" have done!
Vancouver Liberals want Emerson to repay $97,000
Last Updated Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:39:15 EST
The new international trade minister, who reacted angrily to the request in a newspaper interview Tuesday night, maintains he ran his constituency office on a non-partisan basis and that he moved to the Tories to serve his constituents better.
In an interview with the Vancouver Province, Emerson said his two children, age 12 and 14, were being treated with hostility at school because of his defection.
He said he had raised tens of thousands of dollars for the Liberals while he was an MP, and that he felt like a "cash cow" for the party. Liberal attacks on his defection are a sign of "deep sickness," he told the paper.
Harper defended the appointment of the former Liberal industry minister, saying that he had long admired his work and that Emerson is committed to public service.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/02/08/emerson-riding060208.htmlHarper seems to think that he is his kind of guy.
This has the potential to become a turning point in the voice of the people ruling. If the riding and electors want to make an issue of this it could overflow into parliament and become the mud that sticks to Harper.