A politician who cheated his former employees

I wrote the premier of the province of Ontario a letter on October 21, 2003 in which I suggested that he get rid of one of the members of his party as that member was cheating former employees.

Dear Sir:

I was shocked when I learned that Conservative spokeperson Paul Rhodes announced that there were no plans to ask Conservative candidate Daniel Cullen to withdraw from the race, notwithstanding the fact that some of his former employees claimed that he owed them $50,000 in past wages and he still refuses to repay them what he owes them. I should add that this scoundrel is also a business partner of disbarred lawyer, Mario Giangioppo who was forced to withdraw his Conservative candidacy when it was discovered that he had previously ripped off elderly clients for great sums of money.

Integrity is an extremely important element that is expected in politicians and when it is lacking, then the public loses faith in those who choose to associate with such scoundrels. The fact that as the leader of the Conservatives, you, through your spokesperson have chosen to let Cullen remain as one of your candidates is a clear statement to the public that you really don’t care that much as to who sits in the Legislature, just so long as he is a Conservative member of the Legislature.

I think Henry Kissinger was right when he said, “Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”

Governments are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same obvious reason. I am going to vote for another party in hopes that the government’s diapers can be changed so that we won’t have Cullen and his ilk in the Legislature.

NOTE: Both the party and Cullen were defeated at the polls.