[Hieronymus]

Very close nomination race for party leader, who is close to a lock to be the next Premier in Ontario. Sounds like Ford won based on the system for weighing votes (by riding, the equivalent of state house districts), with enough minor glitches to make it so that the results are not certain to the last decimal point, but are statistically certain. The second place candidate isn't conceding. Ford is basically the Ontario equivalent of Trump, so in the end this looks to be a good thing--esp. as the glitch will be good grounds for cleaning house within the party executive.

[Hieronymus]

Ping. Surprised there are no threads up on this one.

[Paladin2]

"Progressive Conservatives"

Like Military Intelligence?

[Migraine]

I once had a set of JC Higgins golf clubs with Doug Ford’s name on them...

[Hieronymus]

A link to a National Post Article. Granic, a social conservative outsider, likely ended up causing Ford to win by energizing the conservative base—the voting system is preferential, and her supporters would likely either list Ford as second or list no one as second. That she topped Mulroney (Brian’s daughter, and the race’s top fundraiser) is remarkable, and that she was a “strong third” even more so.

Then again, only just over 60,000 people voted, so energizing is a relative thing.

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ontario-pc-leadership-vote-results-delayed-by-scrutineering-issue

[Robert DeLong]

Progressive Conservatives There is no such animal. They are progressives, period.

[Reverend Wright]

The Elliot supporters (total CINO’s) refused to support a delay in voting to sort out membership validation.

until today when they lost the vote, so now they are delaying the result, trying to “recount” the ballots to get the correct result.

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ontario-pc-leadership-vote-results-delayed-by-scrutineering-issue?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1520716308