Brown’s remaining campaign co-chair pivoted to rival Jean Charest’s campaign, the morning after Brown himself held a call with supporters suggesting they may need to do the same thing.
OTTAWA — The cards continue to tumble for Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown’s bid for leadership of the federal Conservative party.
Last week, the party’s leadership race organizing committee made a stunning decision to disqualify Brown in a vote of 11 to six. But even before that allegation came to light, the party was probing what it considered suspicious membership sales on the part of the Brown campaign. That investigation had been escalating as well.
On the other side of the coin were those who felt Brown’s record was public, and it would be up for party members to decide whether he should be leader — and for rival candidates to make the case he shouldn’t be.As the party has pressed the Brown campaign on membership sales and how its staff are being paid, the Brown campaign has maintained it was never provided enough detail from the party to adequately defend against any of the allegations.
Reynolds had been tapped to help oversee Brown’s leadership bid alongside Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner.
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