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Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of questions The Next Mayor is asking and answering of the current candidates' campaigns. Monday: Lynne Abraham's campaign. Tuesday: Nelson Diaz's campaign. Wednesday: Doug Oliver's campaign. Thursday: Anthony Hardy Williams' campaign.
Question 5: Can Jim Kenney win the support of Philadelphia's liberals?
The candidate and his aides say he can and will. And getting a big slice of the liberal vote would give him a big boost in his numbers, along with his expected strong support among South Philadelphia Democrats.
It's South Philly that has served as his base since he first ran for Council-at-Large.
In this city, the word "liberals" is really shorthand for white voters, most of whom live in Center City and environs you could also include as annexes: University City's 27th Ward and the Ninth Ward in Chestnut Hill.
That's not to say that all of the city's liberals who are white live in these wards, but this is where they are concentrated -- these seven wards have about 67,000 active Democratic voters.
Right now, these wards don't have a favored candidate, and Kenney can make a decent claim that he will emerge as their choice, simply by process of elimination.
The question is: Which Jim Kenney?
Is it Kenney the progressive, who has championed gay rights and the cause of immigrants?
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Kathleen Wynne is warning the opposition to back off in their attacks on her government over an alleged bribery scandal charging that Progressive Conservative and New Democrat MPPs have secretly tried to negotiate government jobs with the Liberals in exchange for resigning their seats.
With the accusation, the Premier has chosen to fight fire with fire and ramped up an already intense battle over government ethics.
Patricia Sorbara, Ms. Wynnes deputy chief of staff, and Liberal fundraiser Gerry Lougheed are accused of offering a former candidate a government appointment to entice him to quit the Sudbury by-election race. Earlier this week, the provinces top elections official ruled the pair broke provincial bribery rules. They are also under criminal investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police.
Ms. Wynne has steadfastly defended Ms. Sorbara, describing her Friday as a seasoned professional and a woman of integrity and saying Ms. Sorbara would only resign if she is charged.
The Premier tried to turn the tables on the Tories and NDP.
Members of both opposition parties have approached members of my team on a number of occasions suggesting they would vacate their seats if we would guarantee an appointment. We refused each time, she told reporters at a Queens Park news conference. Then, she demanded the opposition stop accusing Liberals of being criminals.
Ms. Wynne would not say which PC and NDP MPPs had solicited jobs, only that there were a number who approached the Liberals during the previous parliament, which was dissolved in May. In that legislature, the Liberals held only a minority of seats, and resignations of some opposition MPPs could potentially have changed the balance of power.
Former finance minister Greg Sorbara, Ms. Sorbaras cousin, wrote in his recent memoir that he had talks with then NDP MPP Rosario Marchese in 2012 about offering the latter a government appointment in exchange for giving up his seat. The deal never happened, he wrote, because Mr. Marchese wanted a bigger job than Mr. Sorbara was willing to give. Mr. Marchese, Mr. Sorbara said, mused about becoming chair of the LCBO, Ontario Power Generation or the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.
We regularly talked about the possibility of an appointment, Mr. Sorbara wrote. The problem was that Rosies aspirations were bigger than what was in my bag of toys. Mr. Sorbara said he instead wanted to give Mr. Marchese a job with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal or the Social Assistance Review Board, but Mr. Marchese argued that those appointments would require too much work and too little profile. Mr. Marchese did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
Also in 2012, the Liberals appointed Tory MPP Elizabeth Witmer chair of the Workplace Safety Insurance Board, prompting her to resign her seat. There was no suggestion she solicited the job.
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Call for disciplinary action against liberals and anti-Hadi faction
SERDANG: An open battle has now broken out between religious scholars and pro-Pakatan Rakyat liberals of PAS for control of the Islamist party, with the ulama council calling for disciplinary action to be taken against those in the PasMa wing.
The acting head of the ulama council, Kelantan menteri besar Ahmad Yakob, also called for an investigation and disciplinary action over a purported campaign to overthrow party president Abdul Hadi Awang.
In his opening speech at the Multaqa Ulama Semalaysia this morning, Ahmad said a special committee, independent of the partys central committee, be formed to investigate the claim.
Two weeks ago, members of PAS Kuantan held a demonstration at party headquarters demanding the resignation of election director Hatta Ramli, whom they alleged to be the mastermind of a plot against Hadi.
The demonstration brought into the open simmering tensions between the conservative ulama faction and the so-called Erdogans and the liberal movement Persatuan Ummah Sejahtera Malaysia for control of the party.
PasMa is seen to be in favour of solidarity with the partys secular-minded political partners in the opposition Pakatan Rakyat alliance, while the conservative ulama have been critical of the DAP for opposing Kelantans plans to implement the hudud Islamic penal code in Kelantan.
Some in PAS have urged Kelantan to concentrate on its administration of the state instead of pressing for hudud, which would be a divisive issue at elections.
Ahmad said the critical voices within the party sounded similar to those of Umno and non-Muslims who opposed hudud.
He described the liberal beliefs of PasMa supporters as being destructive to PAS, as shown in the willingness of PasMa supporters to favour leaders of other political parties rather than their own president.
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