Trapped in Suburbia…

I have to say very little I see from Garth Turner’s campaign surprises me anymore.

First, there was the debacle where Garth’s staff told CPAC to meet him for some ‘face time’ with constituents. What Garth’s people forgot to tell CPAC was the “constituent” was Garth’s campaign manager’s son.

Then, this week Steve Janke has been blogging about how Garth Turner had his pollster Jack Baril ask him a question specifically designed to allow him to attack his opponent Lisa Raitt on CTV’s Canada AM.

Garth, being Garth, doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with having your own campaign staff ask you a leading and partisan question:

Meanwhile, in a steamy basement somewhere to the west, Conservative blogger Steve Janke was working on an expose of the Canada AM show that went to air this morning, featuring a segment on the battle of Halton. He had discovered a question asked of me had been posed by a Liberal supporter – a question whose answer, he said, “delivered a sucker punch to Lisa Raitt right there on the stage.” So, had I arranged it?

(Actually Canada AM’s producer had asked each candidate’s campaign to provide one questioner, whose topic and identity were gathered in advance. My Conservative opponent agreed, and participated. Some expose.)

Of course, Garth fails to mention the fact CTV specifically asked candidate’s to not select members of their campaign staff as the questioner.

Obviously Mr. Turner doesn’t seem to care much when it comes to bending the rules as long as it makes Garth look good. In fact, I’m sure right now Garth is speaking about how great Garth is in the third person, probably while standing in front of a mirror.

In any case, today I found myself driving through Oakville and I couldn’t help but notice that absolutely every Lisa Raitt sign that was posted on a boulevard had a Garth Turner sign planted a few feet away so as to obstruct the view of Ms. Raitt’s signs to oncoming traffic. Obviously someone on Garth’s team has childishly been planting election signs in front of Ms. Raitt’s signs on purpose.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen sign related shenanigans in this election.

I’m going to try and get back with my camera this weekend to snap some pics of just how childishly Garth’s team is behaving.

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