October 27, 2010 – 10:42 am
Carolyn Parrish has an amazing way of wearing out her welcome.
It took 13 years in Ottawa for the one-time backbench MP to get herself ejected from the Liberal Party caucus after bad-mouthing her party leader and making an ass of herself on national television by stomping on a George Bush doll.
“I have absolutely no loyalty to this team, none,” she declared at the time.
Unwelcome in Ottawa, she turned to municipal politics in Mississauga, where Hazel McCallion has ruled supreme since approximately the Paleolithic Age. There’s an argument to be made that McCallion has stayed on too long — she was 89 when re-elected this week — but rather than challenge her by working diligently to establish a solid record of achievement, Parrish went the George Bush doll route again. Read More
Carolyn Parrish has an amazing way of wearing out her welcome.
It took 13 years in Ottawa for the one-time backbench MP to get herself ejected from the Liberal Party caucus after bad-mouthing her party leader and making an ass of herself on national television by stomping on a George Bush doll.
“I have absolutely no loyalty to this team, none,” she declared at the time.
Unwelcome in Ottawa, she turned to municipal politics in Mississauga, where Hazel McCallion has ruled supreme since approximately the Paleolithic Age. There’s an argument to be made that McCallion has stayed on too long — she was 89 when re-elected this week — but rather than challenge her by working diligently to establish a solid record of achievement, Parrish went the George Bush doll route again. Read More
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