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Jason Kenney Faces a New Bombshell Allegation

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Jeff Callaway campaign may have breached election law with services from Kenney campaign: political scientist
Campaigns can share resources 'but they have to disclose it when they do,' Jared Wesley says
The campaign of former United Conservative Party leadership candidate Jeff Callaway may have violated Alberta election law by not disclosing professional services it received from Jason Kenney's campaign, a political scientist says.

On Saturday, CBC News reported on a leaked cache of documents showing Kenney's campaign provided Callaway's with resources during the 2017 UCP leadership race, including strategic political direction, media and debate talking points, speeches, videos and attack advertisements.

All were aimed at undermining Kenney's main political rival for the leadership, former Wildrose leader Brian Jean.

Kenney, Callaway campaigns collaborated to attack Brian Jean during UCP leadership race, leaked documents show
"The Act is pretty clear that campaigns are allowed to share resources with one another, but they have to disclose it when they do," University of Alberta political scientist Jared Wesley said.

Wesley specifically pointed to a section of Alberta's Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act. It states that parties, constituency associations, candidates, and contestants can transfer goods and services to each other; the goods and services won't be considered contributions but the recipient must record the "source and amount."

He noted Callaway's final campaign return, which is publicly available online, does not disclose any services the campaign received from Kenney's campaign.

"If there were professional services that were transferred from one campaign to another, they need to be disclosed," Wesley said. "And if they weren't [disclosed], they are in contravention of the law."

University of Alberta political scientist Jared Wesley says under Alberta election law, a campaign that receives a professional service from another must disclose it. (Scott Neufeld/CBC)
Wesley said while the speeches and talking points Kenney's campaign provided might not constitute a "professional service" under the law, the videos, political ads and graphics definitely would. It's not clear however if the Callaway campaign used that content.

Callaway has not responded to interview requests over the past several days.

UCP executive director Janice Harrington responded with an emailed statement Sunday.

"Sharing communications, political strategies, or information between leadership campaigns is not an in-kind contribution and is not against the rules," the statement said.

But it did not address the fact, as shown by documents leaked to CBC News, that Kenney's campaign also provided the Callaway campaign with professional videos, attack advertisements and graphics, which Wesley said would constitute a professional service that would have to be disclosed by Callaway.

Political ads provided to Callaway campaign

The leaked documents show Matt Wolf, a senior Kenney campaign staffer and his current deputy chief of staff, communicated regularly with Callaway's communications manager Cameron Davies, and also on occasion with Callaway's campaign manager, Randy Kerr.

One of the documents, a "timeline of events" prepared by Davies for Alberta's election commissioner, alleges the Kenney campaign made a concerted effort to recruit a "stalking horse" candidate for the specific purpose of attacking Jean.

"The Callaway campaign received assistance with videos, graphics, speeches, emails, and other communications advice including communications to the Leadership Election Committee," Davies' timeline states, a fact confirmed by other other documents leaked to CBC News.

Kerr has not responded to interview requests.

In a Saturday interview with CBC News, Davies confirmed the authenticity of the leaked documents and he said the extensive support and direction provided to the Callaway campaign by the Kenney campaign was specifically to undermine Brian Jean.

Davies also confirmed Callaway was recruited for the express purpose of attacking Jean and that it was known from the outset by both campaigns that Callaway would withdraw from the race and endorse Kenney, which is what eventually happened.

In a statement issued late Saturday, UCP executive director Janice Harrington said the communication between the two campaigns was "perfectly normal in a preferential ballot election and was within the rules of the 2017 UCP Leadership Election."

An attack ad graphic provided by Matt Wolf to the Jeff Callaway campaign on Aug. 24, 2017. It is not known if the graphic was used. (Supplied)
The UCP continues to insist the Kenney campaign did not collaborate with the Callaway campaign in a so-called kamikaze campaign. Callaway has also denied those allegations.

But neither of Harrington's statements issued on Saturday and Sunday addressed the contents of an internal email, dated Aug. 13, 2017. In it Davies provides a timeline to Wolf that includes a rough date for when Callaway would drop out of the leadership race.

"The themes I'm pushing for are: Seeds of Doubt (Aug. 14-26); Consistency (Aug. 23 - Sept. 6); Trust (Sept. 1 - Sept. 13)," Davies continued.

"Jeff drops (although depending when debates are, you may have other ideas?)," Davies's email to Wolf continues.

In his interview with CBC News, Davies said Callaway's withdrawal from the leadership race "was something that wasn't necessarily negotiable.

"It was something that had been decided in a meeting in mid-July between Callaway and the Jason Kenney leadership team."

RCMP investigating donations

Alberta's election commissioner began investigating Callaway's campaign late last year after a complainant alleged that 18 donors contributed to Callaway's campaign using money that was provided to them, which is illegal. In February, the commissioner fined Karen Brown $3,500 for donating to the Callaway campaign "with funds given or furnished by another person."

The election commissioner also fined Davies $15,000 for obstructing his investigation into the Callaway donations. Through his lawyer, Davies has said he will appeal the fines. He told CBC News he is cooperating with the commissioner's investigation.

On Friday, CBC News revealed the election commissioner has handed the investigation over to the RCMP's serious crimes branch.

RCMP take over investigation of United Conservative Party 'irregular financial contribution' allegations
At an unrelated news conference that same day, Kenney said the RCMP investigation is "about someone else's leadership campaign from 18 months ago," adding later that "all I can tell you is that the campaign that I ran was in full compliance with all of the financial and legal requirements."

Wesley, the political scientist, said Callaway's campaign clearly had an obligation to disclose the professional services Kenney's campaign provided.

"If you share professional services with another campaign, the campaign that receives it has to disclose it," Wesley said. "And there is no record, at least publicly, that that disclosure has been made by the Callaway campaign."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-ucp-election-law-callaway-jason-kenney-1.5060377

Conservative Collusion Corruption at it's height!!
 

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Nasty scandal. Put up a fake candidate to split the vote for his rival and then script it so the fake throws his support to Kenney when he drops out.....
 

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Former Alberta UCP candidate who helped execute kamikaze campaign asks for judicial inquiry into Kenney's role:

Happy Mann says he was at meeting with UCP Leader Jason Kenney where plan was devised
A former Alberta United Conservative Party nomination race candidate who said he collaborated on a "kamikaze" campaign to tank Brian Jean and ensure Jason Kenney's success in the party's 2017 leadership race is calling for a judicial inquiry into the situation.

Hardyal Singh (Happy) Mann says he attended a meeting at Jeff Callaway's house on July 19, 2017, along with Kenney and other party insiders, where it was decided Callaway would join the UCP leadership race to run a campaign aimed at discrediting Jean, before dropping out of the race to endorse Kenney.

Stop denying it, stop lying to Albertans , come clean and accept the responsibility as I did.
— Happy Mann, to Jason Kenney
He said he was also told not to worry about where the funds for Callaway's campaign would come from.

"Kenney's been pointing the fingers at volunteers on this and that but reality is different," Mann told CBC News on Monday.

"The reality is that yes, this has all been planned when Kenney was present."

Mann said he wants a judicial inquiry, and he's asking for Kenney and his team to detail under oath the scope of their involvement in the plan.

"Until this is assigned as a judicial inquiry nobody will come forward under oath," he said.

"Let's all take a collateral responsibility that, yes, the mistake has been made, the kamikaze campaign was planned and executed. … Stop denying it, stop lying to Albertans, come clean and accept the responsibility as I did."

Mann's comments reaffirm what's shown by a leaked cache of documents obtained by CBC News — that Kenney's campaign provided Callaway's campaign with resources including strategic political direction, media and debate talking points, speeches, videos, and attack advertisements, all with the aim of destroying Jean's shot at the leadership and leaving the path clear for Kenney's win.

Kenney and Callaway have denied they collaborated on a kamikaze campaign.

When asked for a response to Mann's allegation, a UCP spokesperson directed CBC News to comments Kenney made Friday at a media availability, when he said he met with Callaway in July 2017 to seek his endorsement.

"At that meeting, he told me he had this idea about running his own leadership campaign. … I think staff between the two campaigns kept in touch after that. But I had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about how they financed their campaigns," he said.

The RCMP and Alberta's election commissioner are investigating allegations of irregular financial contributions to Callaway's campaign, and Mann said he has supplied the authorities with documents relating to his donations and donations from two of his family members.

Mann won't say if he donated his own money

He said he won't say whether he donated his own money or money supplied by someone else to Callaway's campaign until the investigation is closed.

"My money or not, I already disclosed that to the election commissioner … whatever was the truth, I gave it to the authorities."

The election commissioner has issued three fines relating to Callaway's campaign:

Contributor Karen Brown was fined $3,500 for donating funds that were given to her by another person.
Co-campaign manager Cameron Davies was fined twice, for a total of $15,000, for obstruction of an investigation.
Mann said Davies was one of those in attendance at the July 19, 2017, meeting at Callaway's home. Davies' lawyer, Dale Fedorchuk, said Davies was no longer one of his clients as of Sunday.

Earlier in March, the UCP removed Randy Kerr as the party's candidate for Calgary-Beddington, saying Kerr wasn't "forthcoming" about his donation to Callaway's campaign.

UCP removes Calgary-Beddington candidate
Mann said he doesn't want smaller party operatives to be the only ones taking the fall for the allegations.

"It was Kenney's appetite to run somebody who could be that stalking horse. It ended up with Jeff Callaway … we are just the facilitator in the middle, to execute the plan that was made," Mann said.

"But if Kenney is putting this on the volunteers that, 'No, no, no, I was not aware,' then can he deny on record that he never approached Derek Fildebrandt?"

A document prepared by Davies, obtained by CBC News, outlines Callaway was not the party's first choice — Fildebrandt, then a UCP MLA, was considered but ultimately determined to be not "suitable" for the role.

Charge of directing campaign 'ridiculous:' Kenney

Kenney told media following Monday's throne speech that his conversations with Callaway and Fildebrandt were being mischaracterized by Mann and that he was simply meeting with both politicians to court their endorsements.

He also said he isn't aware of his campaign sharing materials with Callaway's campaign, but if they did, he doesn't see it as a violation of election law.

"The notion that sending press clippings and a couple of memes to a campaign is directing it is ridiculous," Kenney said.

"Our team was producing a lot of graphic and video content, a lot of which we didn't use, maybe some of that was shared."

Jeff Callaway campaign may have breached election law with services from Kenney campaign: political scientist
Kenney said he was aware Callaway was attacking Jean during his campaign, but that he didn't direct Callaway to do so.

As for the investigation into allegations of improper financial contributions, Kenney said he'll be disappointed if that's found to be the case.

"It appears ethical and legal lines appear to have been crossed with respect to the financing of another campaign," Kenney said.

Not just 'sour grapes,' says Mann

Mann, who previously ran twice for the Wildrose Party, said his allegations and those brought forward by fellow whistleblower Prab Gill, a former UCP MLA, can't be dismissed as simply "sour grapes."

Mann was disqualified from running for the UCP after it was alleged his team was involved in the assault of a local reporter, and Gill quit the party after allegations of ballot stuffing.

He said it's hypocrisy for conservatives to laud Jody Wilson-Raybould, a Liberal MP who spoke out against her own party recently after stepping down from the federal cabinet, but not him.

"If Jody Wilson[-Raybould] is a hero for conservatives, then why is Happy Mann and Prab Gill sour grapes for Albertans? If you want Canadians or Albertans to know the truth, then let us also speak as you want Jody Wilson[-Raybould] to speak."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/happy-mann-kamikaze-campaign-1.5061407

Wow, couple that with the Doug Ford scandals and connect the Jason Kenny dots with the former Harper Federal Conservatives............... we see the full corruption within the Conservatives, whether Federal or Provincial!!
 

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No collusion, no collusion. Sounds familiar. Where have I heard it before??
 

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This far more serious than Trudeau's mishandling of SNC. Kenney is toast. Imagine that... a crooked Con
 

bver_hunter

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This far more serious than Trudeau's mishandling of SNC. Kenney is toast. Imagine that... a crooked Con
Definitely, he should step down as this is a blatant violation of any campaign rules and definitely sounds very Putinesque. Now why does he not even want an enquiry or even allow the ones bringing these allegations to testify before a committee!!
 

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Rachel Notley calls Alberta election for April 16:

The NDP leader ended weeks of speculation on Tuesday.

Notley focused her attention on those controversies as she called the election before a cheering crowd at the National Music Centre in Calgary, saying she hopes to earn the support of disaffected conservatives.

"A growing number of conservatives here in Calgary and across Alberta are coming to have serious doubts about Jason Kenney as premier," she said.

Kenney has been fending off allegations that his campaign cooperated with rival Jeff Callaway in the party's leadership race.

On Monday night, one of his star candidates dropped out of the running in the Calgary-Mountain View riding following the release of private messages from two years ago when she talked about a double standard for white supremacist terrorists.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-rachel-notley-announcement-election-1.5062451
 
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