PMSHithead hires big guns ...

... to fight Helena Guergis' civil suit against him and other members of the Harper Regime©™.

In December, lawyers for Guergis filed a lawsuit in an Ottawa court against Harper, the Conservative party, and several other people for $1.3 million over her 2010 ejection from the Tory caucus over allegations of improper conduct.

The allegations in the statement of claim — none of which have been proven in a court — came after a lengthy period during which Guergis publicly complained she had been mistreated by her former boss and political colleagues.

Now, as the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit, she is seeking compensation for damage she alleges those actions inflicted on her public reputation.

Specifically, with regards to Harper's actions, her 31-page statement of claim seeks damages from the prime minister for his alleged "conspiracy, defamation, misfeasance in public office, intentional infliction of mental suffering, and negligence." [...]

In the lawsuit, Guergis alleges those being sued conspired to present various allegations about her behaviour — including fraudulent activity, extortion, association with prostitutes, and cocaine use (including "snorting" the drug off a prostitute's breast).

All the allegations are false and defamatory and have "resulted in damage to the plaintiff's reputation," as well as her "political career, health, and well-being," says her statement of claim.

Guergis was in Harper's cabinet as minister of state for the status of women. That ended suddenly in April 2010 when Harper announced that his office had become aware of "serious allegations'' regarding her conduct which he was forwarding to the RCMP and to the ethics commissioner.

Harper did not publicly identify the nature of the allegations, and Guergis says she was not told by the prime minister.

Guergis was booted from cabinet and the Tory caucus, and the party later removed her as its candidate in the southern Ontario riding of Simcoe-Grey.

In the statement of claim, lawyers for Guergis allege the allegations about her behaviour were put forward as a method to remove her from the Tory fold.

Above, Stevie Grudgiepants and Guergis, in Happier Days.

Here at DJ! we have produced much criticism about Guergis and her role in the roiling incompetence of the ReformaTory Cabinet. But we've also noted that the CPC old boys' club is quick to withdraw privileges, entitlements and protection from its honourary female members when it's CONvenient.

We want Guergis to have her day in court - thus the manner in which PMSHithead conducted his vendetta against her is entered in the public record, and stands as one more element of this repulsive man's political legacy.

Update: Stevie's former head bully-boy has retaliated in court.

The abject transparency of Faytene

DAMMIT JANET! - which is, according to this, a filthy-speaking and vulgar blogsite - has been watching the self-aggrandizing antics of Faytene Kryskow Grasseschi for awhile now.

Bene Diction Blogs On has a co-blogger who dedicates himself to the scrutiny of the minutia of Faytene's MASSIVE dramatics evangelical outpourings.

DJ! is more interested in how she manipulates folks and profitably manages her career to The Greater Good of Faytene. At an event entitled "Forgiven" two years ago, which was ostensibly organized by Former Cree chief Kenny Blacksmith to ‘accept’ the apology PMSHithead made in the House of Commons to Canada’s Aboriginal people, but orchestrated by the same deep pockets that financially supported the Harper Regime©™ rise to power, I noted:

A lot of money was on display, in the state-of-the-art television recording and broadcasting installations. Before the religious pageant started, Faytene Kryskow sauntered through our seating area, in not-kewl hoi polloi territory. Apparently the group sitting in the seats below us had not been given the VIP status they deserved.

David Mainse established the nation's first Christian television show, Crossroads, in 1963. In 1977 he launched 100 Huntley Street, now Canada's longest-running Christian TV program.

As Faytene led Mainse and the dozen or so people in his entourage to reserved seats close to the stage, she apologized for the oversight, blurting out that the Aboriginal volunteers involved in the organization of the event "did not know who the important people were".

Oh really, Faytene? Shouldn't Jesus be the Most Important One to know?

Snort.

Why do the CONs hate our veterans and our troops?

Actions speak louder than words; the Harper Regime©™ plans to slash and burn programs and services for Canadian veterans.

“While in Charlottetown last week, VAC staff informed me that because they did their job ‘too well’ and had too many veterans coming to the office for service, the federal government was closing the Charlottetown District office,” Stoffer said in a statement. “They were told to direct more veteran clients to the toll-free phone service and the internet.”

From here.

As well, human resources providing assistance with regard to suicide prevention and PTSD care for veterans of Afghanistan will be MASSIVELY reduced. From here:

[...] the Department of National Defence was cutting the jobs of medical professionals involved in suicide prevention and PTSD monitoring — despite claims by DND and the Canadian Forces that dealing with such health issues is a priority. Two unions have been informed by DND of the job cuts. DND has not commented on the cuts but sources confirmed the positions will be eliminated.

At the same time, the newspaper obtained an internal report for senior military officers at CFB Petawawa warning that emotionally damaged Afghanistan war veterans at the base are being neglected by a mental health treatment system that is in “crisis.”

‘MacKay loves to wrap himself in the military flag and as long as these guys are healthy’
The report was written by a group of civilian clinicians who provide much of the care to hundreds of mentally ill soldiers from the base.

It describes a system that is poorly funded, devoid of forward planning, scrambling to provide even basic care and leaving mentally ill, often-suicidal soldiers waiting four months or more before a psychiatrist or psychologist is available to treat them.

Unsurprisingly, the Minister for National Defense, Peter MacKay did nothing to ensure these vital services for veterans are maintained.

Time flies when you're ^NOT having fun.

So it was one calendar year ago today that the majority of voters said WTF? as they took stock of what would eventually be known as The Great CON electoral fraud.

On Twitter, the numerous critics of The Harper Regime©™ vented, expressing some amusing and scathing observations about PMSHithead's first year of rule.

Here's a sample of #Harpers1stYear:

There's a lot more of those, naming the numerous anti-democratic *accomplishments* of this fraudulent governement.

My own CONtribution:

More about the CON elxn41 voter suppression and electoral fraud, here.

CON electoral fraud coming apart at the seams.

The Galloping Beaver: And look what floats to the surface (updated)

Oh yes, the very latest in the CPC election fraud can be found there.

With linky goodness to everyone who has been on top of this story since the disastrous May 2011 federal elections where Stevies thugs and goons lied and bullied their way into a "majority" regime, with only 39% of the votes from those Canadians who weren't deterred by the MASSIVE robocall campaigned engineered by individuals working to the CPC, yet to be identified and charged.

It's why we call them CONs.

Added: an overview of what we wrote at DAMMIT JANET!

Lying Contempt Party and its Ministers, Second Verse

Same as the first.

I just caught on Radio Canada, Contempt Party leader's justification for his and Cashmere Tony's VIP road trip to Europe.

SHitehead said that he brought him along to observe first hand how bad things are in Greece, to make him feel better when, as his Treasury Board Stooge Minister, Tony inflicts deep and permanently damaging cuts to federal programs.

It's worth reading Dan Gardner on the Contempt Party's past and current priorities, here. A reality check, one might say.

Meanwhile, while Stevie and Tony have their Big Adventure, some of the Cons are communing with other Cons at this event.

So far media coverage has not been particularly flattering towards Timmy; Radio-Canada and other news-gathering organizations refer to him as "a Mike Harris in short-pants".

*Change-book*? How lame is that?

That one hit a nerve.

The leader of the #Contempt Party, the man at the helm of The New Harper Regime©™, does not like being held accountable for past, present or future actions. From here:

Stephen Harper is expected to move quickly to kill the per-vote taxpayer subsidies to political parties in an effort to kill the Liberal Party of Canada, according to a former colleague of the Prime Minister.

“Ever since his days at the [National Citizens Coalition], Stephen talked about eliminating the Liberals as a political force in Canada,” former NCC executive Gerry Nicholls said. “This was both for personal and tactical reasons. He didn’t like Liberals – he always viewed them as biased against Alberta.”

Guy Giorno, the man who is (?) the National Campaign Chairman for the Cons bitched on Twitter:

As a rule of thumb, anyone held out to media as an authority on Prime Minister's current thinking likely doesn't know it

This is very odd. The facts, as laid out in Taber's piece are correct. But it reveals what probably triggered one of Stevie Spiteful's legendary temper tantrums.

How dare Gerry Nicholls be considered an *authority* on SHithead by the media? That is one MASSIVE lèse-majesté.

Time to rewrite the words to this song, I think.

Did Con candidate brag about defunding Planned Parenthood?

From here:

Brad Trost, incumbent for Saskatoon-Humboldt, addressed the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association’s annual convention Saturday and thanked its members for their help in killing federal funding for the group.

In a recording of the speech, obtained by the Liberals and provided to the Toronto Star and Le Devoir, Trost claims a number of parliamentary victories for the pro-life movement, including a decision to deny funding for the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Trost said he and “many” other MPs helped spearhead efforts to round up petitions “to defund Planned Parenthood.”

“Let me just tell you, and I cannot tell you specifically how we used it, but those petitions were very, very useful and they were part of what we used to defund Planned Parenthood [...]

Hasn't happened yet but it's gonna. Under the Contempt Party's New Harper Majority Regime©™.

You betcha.

Did Con candidate deodorize? (updated)

Contempt Party candidate (and former senator) Larry Smith recently stated that the survival of francophones in Quebec - and perhaps in the rest of Canada? - is no longer important. His declaration in Le Devoir:

"[C]e qui est important, c'est le monde, pas la protection des francophones au Québec. Ça, c'est du passé."

Aligning himself with the views of his caucus conspirator Maxime Bernier, Smith proclaimed that Law 101 is irrelevant.

This aggressive attack upon language rights could be a MASSIVE diversion intended to draw attention away from the pungent financial connections the Cons have cultivated in Quebec.

Rue Frontenac investigated the convergence of ReformaTory & ADQ interests here, and more recently the presence of Giulio Maturi in Agop Evereklian's campaign organization. For those who don't speak or read French - Google translations available here and here.

It’s all about the money, of course. Follow that trail; the rest is all dirty tricks, Rovian tactics and political agitprop.

Information worth noting:

• Businessman Tony Accurso is connected to the vast fundraising network developed by Senator Leo Housakos in support of conservative politicians campaigning at the municipal, provincial and federal level.


• On Friday March 18, 2011, then-senator Smith announced that the Harper Government©™ was providing $228 million to the agency that maintains and operates Montreal's two main bridges - Jacques-Cartier and Champlain.


• Senator Housakos was vice-president at an engineering company which received, in 2009, a $1.4M contract to study the repair and restoration requirements of Champlain Bridge.


• *Over-zealous* Dimitri Soudas and Housakos' actions came under the scrutiny of the Ethics Commissioner in 2008 for allegations of influence-peddling with regard to contracts allocated by Public Works.


• Giulio Maturi was a top official in the campaign of former Montreal mayoral candidate Benoît Labonté who dropped out of the 2009 race under a cloud of corruption allegations. Labonté claimed Mr. Maturi wanted him to use four campaign organizers paid for by a private company as a donation in kind. He also claimed that he was encouraged to hire Maturi by Accurso and Housakos.

But never fear! The Contempt Party's odorous diversion - the declaration that anglophone and *ethnic* groups will no longer be "oppressed" by French language rights - will surely obnubilate the messy optics of cozy fundraising schemes, for the scaremongered residents of West Island and of other ridings in the province of Quebec.

Also, voters should be edified by the catastrophic revenue loss that Con candidate Smith is willing to suffer should they elect him to be their humble public servant MP.

A question: who is that out-of-focus figure in both pix - Agop Evereklian?

NatPost not impressed by the two candidates either.

Update about Agop Evereklian's *credentials*, here.

A Conservative candidate once punished for financial wrongdoing hosted a rally with Prime Minister Stephen Harper one week after the party dumped another candidate over past financial woes.

Agop Evereklian, the Tory candidate in a Montreal-area riding, was castigated by a Quebec judge for writing bad cheques while his business was going bankrupt and was ordered to pay back $29,632 in 2005.

Evereklian has run for the Tories in two straight campaigns even though the party's vetting procedure asks candidates for any past financial and legal problems.

What was it Contempt leader Harper said about the uprising in Egypt? Oh yes, a quote from H. R. Haldeman: "You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube."

Contempt leader Harper stumbled

and this journalist caught the moment.

Harper, in an unscripted moment and in hasty reaction to the Ignatieff statement, made a mistake.

It was the kind of fumble that can happen in the rough and tumble quick action of an election, away from the controlled setting of the House of Commons, where the prime minister always gets the last word.

Harper, who really did sound a bit rattled, called Ignatieff’s written promise a “little tidbit” in a news release. Then, oddly, maybe even incomprehensively, he accused the liberals of “trying to set it as a hidden agenda” and that Ignatieff declared his position in writing because “he couldn’t deny it in front of the cameras.”

In another few moments, so short and yet pivotal in a campaign, Ignatieff replied at his own news event: “[Harper] wouldn’t recognize the truth if it walked up and shook his hand.”

Freeze frame that, and go back to Harper, at Rideau Hall.

Continuing down the unscripted road, looking and sounding even more unsure of himself, Harper did the one sure thing that had his script masters shuddering, he referred to the possibility his party might win only another minority.

Or lose his *érection* so badly that his Contempt party won't even get the opportunity to re-form another Harper Regime©™.

It was reported that Stevie Spiteful was booed at his appearance in Brampton today. Harper's handlers should make sure he's taking his mood-control meds. If one of his notorious temper tantrums or foul expletive-laden outbursts is caught on camera, it will crack the veneer of his carefully crafted image.

Photo from Alison @ Creekside. CuriosityCat blogged the news item and posted it. Grand merci.

Harper is a Victim. Really.

Poor, sad Stevie Spiteful.

Harper says he didn't want an election and now he has to run for it.

Harper was betrayed, betrayed! by Bruce Carson, he the PMO tells us.

Harper and his Harper Regime©™ were found in contempt of Parliament for these actions - although these are the same old same old tactics the Cons have been exploiting since Stevie became leader of the *new* ReformaTory Conservative (NOT progressive) party in 2004.

And now this damning G20 report, calling for a MASSIVE inquiry.

Oh. Wait. Could Stevie be playing at being a victim, a role-reversal trick that bullies typically like to pull?

In the words of our esteemed blogging colleague Alison @ Creekside:

The Cons' contempt for Parliament was just a part of their contempt for all of us.

The Cons' contempt. It's why we call them Cons.