Busted for unsportsmanlike conduct:OTTAWA -- Michael Ignatieff’s Liberal leadership campaign has been penalized $1,000 for making "unsubstantiated, inflammatory" allegations against rival Bob Rae's campaign in British Columbia.
A Liberal party appeal committee ruling said the Ignatieff campaign’s publicity of unproven allegations had hurt a number of individuals, leadership campaigns and the party.
Not unlike his nomination for party leader...
The allegations were contained in an appeal by Ignatieff's operations director, Sachin Aggarwal, to the committee calling on party officials to disqualify up to 78 Rae delegates in B.C., who were elected to attend the party’s Nov. 28 to Dec. 2. leadership convention in Montreal.
The ruling said "no attempt was made in the course of the hearing to prove even one of those allegations."
The committee said the penalty meant the party would retain the $1,000 paid by Ignatieff’s campaign to initiate a hearing.
Ignatieff: all hat, no cattle.
On second thought, he doesn't even have the hat either...
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