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Sheila Copps: nobody's candidate

by Nancy Macdonald on Friday, May 1, 2009 8:51pm - 2 Comments

A repentant Liberal insider, part of the Martin team that forced former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps into a bruising nomination battle with Tony Valeri, says the party recently asked Copps—who held Hamilton East for 20 years—to run again. “They’ve realized she’s the only one who can take out the NDP in Hamilton,” he says, adding that, last year, he apologized to the Liberal icon for the dust-up, when he ran into her at an Ottawa Red Lobster. Copps, he said, has declined the Liberal invite. In 2006, the NDP took all three urban Hamilton ridings.

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  • Wascally Wabbit

    I was a scrutineer for Sheila at that Hamilton East nomination abomination – (actually had to scrutinize the Valeri family credentials – and was told by Sheila personally not to make waves) and honoured to be invited to her suite for the Friday night speeches (Sheila and a retiring Jean Cretien) back in November 2003. Didn’t stay for Paul Martin’s coronation on the Saturday – and deliberately sat on the fence for today’s coronation – which still feels like a sad repeat of 2003.
    Mr. Ignatieff – and the group surrounding him (containing far too many of the old Martin / Earnscliffe operatives IMO to assuage these feelings) still has a long uphill struggle to prove that the page has turned.

  • herringchoker

    Paul Zed at a Red Lobster? I guess not having a paying job is taking its toll.

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