The news media expect the MP Eve Adams story to be around for a while. The copy is just too good to pass up. The blonde (or brunette, depending on the day) Ms. Adams is an aging Cleopatra and her boy toy Dimitri Soudas is a besotted Marc Antony. Mind you, we are all waiting for the conservative-leaning Sun Media headline that denigrates her as “that bitch with an itch.”
As expected, few if any real Liberals are welcoming her to their party. It is not that they do not want to win Toronto’s Eglinton-Lawrence electoral district. It is just that they would prefer to win it with some shred of dignity left in the process.
While the attack on Finance Minister Joe Oliver was expected, Adams candidacy is over the top. While the immediate and scathing attack on her by local Liberal MPP Mike Colle was a bit ill-advised, it was honest and spoke eloquently for the mores of the riding. While Adams has possible potential in a newer GTA riding with a younger demographic, Eglinton-Lawrence is wrong, wrong, wrong.
First of all with about 25 per cent of the electoral district being Jewish, the old Jewish-Italian coalition that stood by former Liberal MP Joe Volpe can still be a winning combination. It was only 2011 when Oliver finally beat Volpe but it was well past either candidate’s ‘best before date.’ The riding deserves a more energetic and youthful MP.
Frankly the Liberals need to do a better candidate search for that riding. Surely they can find an up and coming candidate with more to offer the voters than what Adams brings to the table. Her record while a Conservative was pathetic and the party had good reason to toss her. They were sorrier to lose Soudas than her.
While Soudas made few friends as Harper’s communications guy and alienated more as executive director of the Conservative Party, he has no friends in the Liberal Party either. One of the rules this writer always followed over the years in political activity was to know your counterpart in the other parties and buy them a drink occasionally. You might be surprised at how many times you found it beneficial to have quick access to another party in a situation critical to both.
But we are all going to be watching to see how the Adams-Soudas affair unfolds. They might deserve each other but does the Liberal Party?
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