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The NDP gets caught
That crunching noise you heard the other morning wasn’t just the sound of your kids chowing down on their cereal. It was the sound of some senior New Democrats eating their words as it came to light that they bend the rules when it comes to raising money for their party.
Manitoba’s New Democratic Party has been accused by the provincial Tories and Liberals of cheating the NDP’s own election finance law that bans union and corporate donations. As NDP officials apparently told Elections Manitoba Monday and admitted to the Winnipeg Free Press later in the week, unions are collecting money from their members on behalf of the NDP and cutting them a single cheque, a process known as bundling.
Although party secretary Wayne Copeland says the practice is rare — he said it amounted to only $9,000 of the $739,531 the party raised in 2004 — it’s still not cricket.
The NDP gets caughtThat crunching noise you heard the other morning wasn’t just the sound of your kids chowing down on their cereal. It was the sound of some senior New Democrats eating their words as it came to light that they bend the rules when it comes to raising money for their party.
Manitoba’s New Democratic Party has been accused by the provincial Tories and Liberals of cheating the NDP’s own election finance law that bans union and corporate donations. As NDP officials apparently told Elections Manitoba Monday and admitted to the Winnipeg Free Press later in the week, unions are collecting money from their members on behalf of the NDP and cutting them a single cheque, a process known as bundling.
Although party secretary Wayne Copeland says the practice is rare — he said it amounted to only $9,000 of the $739,531 the party raised in 2004 — it’s still not cricket.
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