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[John Tory's] political career was the stuff of tragicomedy
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Mar 06, 2009 12:29pm |
| Category | Editorial |
| News Date | Mar 06, 2009 12:00pm |
| Description | This time, surely, it's over.
The good folks of a cottage-country riding in central Ontario drove a stake yesterday through the sad political career of PC Leader John Tory.
Tory was handed a shocking defeat in the riding of Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock in a by-election arranged for the sole purpose of getting him the Legislature seat essential to sustaining his leadership.
The loss to Liberal Rick Johnson was both insult and injury – the personal repudiation of a man who was a Red Tory from the cradle, who before his 30th birthday was adviser to a premier, and who once seemed destined by genes, training and inclination for high electoral office. It was not to be.
Whatever admirable personal trait it was that made Tory a business success, a dynamo of good works and a credit to his family and community, did not seem to translate to politics.
The last two decades – tracking back to the 1993 federal election he managed that all but wiped the national Progressive Conservatives from the map – have piled loss upon ignominious loss. |
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