‘They don’t want us,’ says Patrick Brown supporter ‘disenfranchised and disregarded’ by Conservative Party via thehilltimes
The Conservative Party leadership race started with six candidates, clockwise from top left: Pierre Poilievre, Leslyn Lewis, Jean Charest, Scott Aitchison, Patrick Brown, and Roman Baber. Before Brown's disqualification, his campaign relied heavily on reaching out to immigrant communities. His former rivals will now try to woo these voters.The story link will be added automatically.
email that he and his team had signed up “over 1,500 new members” from the community in support of Brown, whose campaign said it signed up more than 150,000 members. Front-runner and rival Pierre Poilievre claimed his team signed up more than 300,000 new members. While both claims are unverified, the party confirmed last month that a record number of 600,000 members may be eligible to vote.
Debra Jodoin, a longtime Conservative organizer who had been a regional organizer with the Brown campaign, later came forward to say she was the whistleblower who informed LEOC that she had been being paid by a corporation for her work on the campaign, which is against the law. Brown has disputed these allegations.Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader from 2015 until early 2018 when he resigned in the face of sexual misconduct allegations, which he denied.
Grosso said she ran into Brown supporters during the Ontario provincial election campaign that finished on June 2. “Some of these folks worked as maintenance crews in hotels. We were having conversations, and they came and showed me selfies on their phones, with Patrick Brown.” With each new one-year membership costing $15, Brown’s membership drive could have brought in as much as $2.25-million for the party. When asked what the party would do if Brown supporters, unhappy with his disqualification, cancel their memberships and ask for their money back,according to fairness and the rules. Not according to torches and pitchforks.”
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