Friday, February 06, 2009

Harper Lawsuit Pulled - No Liberal Retraction Requested

Remember that lawsuit Harper was so sure of? The one where he wanted to figuratively "sue the Liberal Party into bankruptcy? The guy was sooooooooo sure he was going to win (or at least publicly making it appear to be so)...

Well...

He dropped the suit. Now remember, before we hear the "well it was SETTLED out of court" comments, this was HARPER SUING THE LPofC, and NOT "suit/counter-suit. Apparently the Conservatives have run out of "evidence of their innocence" lol... rofl...

Not only did the Cons drop their suit, but THEY HAVE NOT EVEN ASKED FOR A RETRACTION OF THE ORIGINAL LIBERAL STATEMENT - OR AN APOLOGY!!! Go figure.

Then we get this brilliant and timely post from Danielle...

http://danielletakacs.blogspot.com/2009/02/blogging-tories-spin-conservatives.html

Looks like they actually feed their bloggers everything they write! We only ASSUMED that before. Now we have the proof (not like it was really needed, but anyways...). What' more interesting here, is the actual discussion (I urge you to go to Danielle's blog and have a good read). They are pretty crushed and looking for ways to make themselves look good... Hmmm... Sucks to be them. Guess we can get our campaign literature ready - with the claim attached.

Harper tries to sue us, then drops the case. And he just SWORE he was not lying... Hmmm...

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4 comments:

The Mound of Sound said...

WG, the real story here is what happened the day before. That's when Harper's lawyer, Rick Dearden of Gowlings, "withdrew" a formal way of saying he dropped his client.

Can you imagine a lawyer "firing" a client who happens to be a sitting prime minister?

Then the very next day the lawsuit itself is dropped?

http://www.canada.com/news/Lawyer+representing+Grits+withdraws/968058/story.html

Anonymous said...

Yep. Exactly. Cons/Liebs/exactly the same. The Cons just have less genes.

The Mound of Sound said...

WG, I was wrong. Dearden fired Harper back in November when the authenticity of the tape was confirmed by his own experts.

Still it's hard to imagine a prominent Ottawa lawyer ditching a client who is the sitting prime minister, especially a lawyer from a firm like Gowlings.

And wasn't it cute that the settlement announcement was incredibly vague and made late on a Friday afternoon?

WesternGrit said...

Gotta love the Friday "garbage time" announcements... lol...