[Newsbot]

Title: Senators' partisan mail-outs probed
Category: Political
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2010-11-13 19:53:08
Canadian

[Curtman]

$1:

Runciman told the Toronto Star he mailed his on the request of the national party office but Plett said Friday he sent the flyer of his own accord and it had nothing to do with Runciman's.
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However, Liberal MPs and senators say the recent mailings are nothing more than the Conservatives getting around the recent ban on MPs using taxpayer dollars to send partisan flyers into opposition ridings. The House of Commons barred the practice, known as 10 percenters, earlier this year.

In Manitoba last year, the nine Conservative MPs spent an average of over $54,000 each on 10 percenters. The five opposition MPs (four NDP and one Liberal) averaged a little over $21,000.

[kenmore]

I get partisan emails from Mike Duffy all the time. And I email him back with some rude comments of course

[Curtman]

I get them from Sharon Carstairs too, but they aren't bad mouthing the NDP. It's full of boring crap about what the senate (didn't) do today.