Conservatives - meet your national campaign team.

The Hill Times has a great piece on who is who at Conservative campaign HQ, take the time to read it!

I am grateful for all the volunteers who give so much to bring home a Conservative win.  These generous people are truly the foot soldiers of democracy and without them we would be nowhere.

What or who I am not so enamoured with are those who are running the national campaign.  I have no doubt that they want a Conservative win but I am not exactly sure of some of the hair brained ideas coming out of the Lancaster Rd. war room.

I have heard that they are insisting that every candidate clear every interview request through them.  I have also heard that they are telling candidates not to talk to certain media on threat of having nominations revoked.  

I don't like the limits on reporters questions to the PM.

I don't like this debate fiasco and yes, it is a fiasco.

And the list goes on.

Actually, I got ticked off with Conservative HQ some time ago when I noticed that they were subverting the nomination process.  In other words many ridings were being forbidden from holding the traditional nomination meetings and letting members of an EDA make the decision on who was going to represent them.  There were a few too many acclamations for my liking.

I guess political parties are like families.  They may really, really tick you off by what they do but in the end, you circle the wagons and give your support.