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Homosexual Ontario politician can’t keep his hate off Twitter
October 26, 2010
Minister sorry for Harper bigot tweet
By Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
TORONTO – An Ontario cabinet minister was forced to apologize Tuesday for a tweet accusing the prime minister, Ontario’s Opposition leader and Toronto’s new mayor of being bigots. But provincial Opposition Leader Tim Hudak said the wording of the apology made the situation even worse and called for the premier to fire the minister.
Glen Murray, Ontario’s minister of research and innovation and a former mayor of Winnipeg, posted to his Twitter feed a comment from another user on Saturday about Toronto’s mayoral race.The tweet slams Toronto mayor-elect Rob Ford, Hudak and Stephen Harper. “Ford, Hudak and Harper – the trifecta of Republican-style, right-wing ignorance and bigotry,” the tweet reads.
The Twitter user posted that in response to a tweet from Murray saying a vote for Ford was a vote for bigotry.
Murray issued a statement the same day Hudak raised the issue in the legislature – three days after he originally posted the tweet - saying he doesn’t think any of the three men is a bigot. “I regret tweeting a message that said otherwise, and am sorry that I did,” Murray said.
But the apology statement contained several other paragraphs hinting at hate within Hudak’s ranks. “I do challenge Tim Hudak to condemn strongly the hateful campaigning deployed in Toronto and to root out any of those working in his ranks who would try to exploit hatred with smear tactics,” Murray said.
Hudak didn’t accept the apology. “I am insulted by minister Murray’s refusal to take responsibility for his own statements,” he said. “The right thing to do would be to offer a clear and unconditional apology, not throw more baseless accusations.” If Murray doesn’t do that, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty should fire him, Hudak said.
Toronto Sun – Oct. 27, 2010
Spew of hatred a signal of liberal distress
By Joe Warmington
Turns out the Liberals are not only losers but sore losers. They may also have shown themselves to be perhaps the biggest bunch of crybabies in the history of Canadian politics. The biggest suck of them all is Research and Innovation Minister Glen Murray. In attacking Toronto mayor-elect Rob Ford on Twitter, he not only showed he can’t take the heat but just how classless he is by taking baseless shots at Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak, as well. “Ford, Hudak and Harper -the trifecta of Republicanstyle, right wing ignorance and bigotry” and that they “use fear tactics against Tamils and gay men,” retweeted Murray. He had also tweeted on the weekend: “If u vote Ford u r voting for bigotry.”
Obviously the more than 380,000 Torontonians, who cast their ballot for Ford, didn’t buy it. And suggesting Harper and Hudak are homophobic is just bottom of the barrel. The irony of lightweight Murray’s low blow is it was actually Ford during the campaign who took all of the vicious below-the-belt blows with comments on his weight and intellect. He faced a barrage from a failed, flailing and listing Liberal machine. None of it worked. The voters told the Liberal elite and the leftist, progressive crowd what they think of them. As Mayor David Miller and his left-leaning socialists found out, the oh-so-clever, politically correct, bully season is almost as passe as the phony global warming movement and the Berlin Wall.
COCKTAIL COMMUNISM
Even though he didn’t have the moxy to run again, the result was also Toronto’s way of throwing Miller out of office, too. The message is clear. Cocktail Communism isn’t hip anymore.