Robocop Fantino and The Harpercons Poach Yet Another Prominent Liberal In Vaughan

What is with Julie Poo Fantino and his ability of robbing Liberals of endorsements. First, in the by-election of last Fall, the former MP for Vaughan, Maurizio Bevilacqua, had reportedly endorsed the robocop in exchange for his endorsing Bevilacqua’s mayoralty campaign.  Whether it was true or not, he certainly was of no help to the Liberal candidate, Tony Genco.

Now, Tony Genco is endorsing Robocop Fantino.

“I now encourage every Liberal in Vaughan to seriously reconsider their support for the Liberal Party and support the Conservative Party of Canada and Julian Fantino,” Mr. Genco wrote in an open letter.

About now is where we would juxtapose:

“It is now up to Mr. Genco to reconcile today’s endorsement with the criticisms and attacks he levelled against the Conservative Party and Julian Fantino just four months ago,” Liberal spokesman Marc Roy said.

The Liberals also released a list of attacks that Mr. Genco launched against the Conservative Party during the by-election.

“After running up a record deficit – including a billion dollars wasted on the G8 and G20 – Stephen Harper has chosen tax breaks for large corporations, untendered stealth fighter jets, and new super-prisons. Those don’t sound like Vaughan’s priorities, The choice for Vaughan is clear. Let’s send Stephen Harper a message he can’t ignore: the people of Vaughan do not support his government,” Mr. Genco said.

Yes, Mr. Genco, how do you reconcile that?

Me thinks this is sweet revenge on the part of Mr. Genco. Remember how Genco was tossed out of his position as chair of the regional hospital board which he believed to be because of political pay back?

“This is a real kick in the teeth,” Tony Genco told the Star of his firing from the volunteer position early Monday. “It’s bizarre to me, but they’ve decided I’ve become a political liability. I feel humiliated.”

Uh huh. We get that.  It gets better:

The board of York Central Hospital is working to expand health service in the area with a new hospital in Vaughan. Fantino embraced the issue during the campaign, making the fight for federal infrastructure dollars for the hospital a central plank in his platform.

Genco says he believes the board wants him out to facilitate relations over the new hospital with Fantino and the Conservative government. Genco lost by about 1,000 votes in the Nov. 29 vote, after a rough and often personal campaign.

Ok, that’s plausible. So, is you’re endorsing the Harpercons political payback for getting kicked off that hospital board?  Or did you play a little game of “Let’s Make a Deal” and wormed your way back into that hospital board’s good graces by agreeing to endorse Julie Poo and slam your former party in exchange for getting your position or something similar back?

The board is “doing what the Tories want them to do,” he said, “which is to get rid of me . . . Now I’ve lost twice. This isn’t how things should be done — this is not a Third World country.

No, Mr. Genco, it isn’t a  Third World Country, so why would you endorse a party that is trying to us into one?

I also have to wonder if Genco suffered any other fall outs as a result from his and the Liberal party’s loss in the by-election.

And Mr. Genco, what would’ve happened had you squeaked by to beat Julie Poo in the by-election? Would you be slamming your party and playing buddy buddy with him today?

Me thinks this is simply a case of sour grapes because Genco’s life hasn’t gone quite the way he planned following the by-election.  Me thinks this is indeed pay-back and what better way than to be a turncoat during an election campaign?

Does that mean Justin Trudeau was wrong about you and you, like Fantino also think the Charter of Rights is only for Hell’s Angels and other assorted criminals?

Sadly though, most won’t see it that way and will only think something is terribly wrong with the Liberal Party and won’t look at Mario Ferri, the new Liberal candidate running against Robocop Fantino for himself; not judge him by his record as a municipal councillor.  I think this is could be a serious blow to Ferri.

UPDATE: Up until very recently, it appears that Genco wanted to run again for the Liberals in Vaughan, but didn’t submit his nomination papers on time or for whatever reason, lost to Mario Ferri.  I hadn’t seen any indication anywhere that Genco was throwing his hat in the nomination ring or had intended to run again. In fact, I thought that he would’ve given up on the whole idea, given what happened to him at that hospital board. H/T Volkov