It's hard not to pay attention to the looooong list of revelations and allegations in this whole Helena Guergis affair, and I admit to being fairly consumed with the story for the past while. Frankly, it's fascinating to witness the national media going nuts over something that's happening in my backyard.
Until Friday, I was fairly certain Helena Guergis would survive these setbacks, and remain the candidate for the federal Conservatives in Simcoe Grey. This is such bedrock conservative country, I figured she could do pretty much anything and still get elected.
But then, the expense accounts sidebar to the saga came out.
Regardless of whatever it is the RCMP may or may not be investigating regarding Helena Guergis, and regardless of what the commons ethics committee finds,the expense accounts have done her in, in Simcoe Grey. One simply cannot ask taxpayers to fork out for a 250 dollar purse as an election expense and expect to keep your seat next time around.
Furthermore, the purse in question was bought at Winners, the discount store. It has not yet been approved or reimbursed, according to the accounts I've read, but she did indeed put in for it.
Most of her would-be supporters will think, if she were going to spend 250-dollars on a handbag, should it not be at a trendy boutique on one of the beleaguered main streets of her home riding? The rest, the biggest supporters (and by big, I mean moneyed), will drop her because now she's shown her true colours and they're not their colours; she's a (shudder of distaste...) discount shopper.
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