Embattled MP Helena Guergis has support of riding association, members say
Posted April 24, 2010 1:16 pm.
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NEW LOWELL, Ont. – Embattled MP Helena Guergis said Saturday many Conservatives in her central Ontario riding still support her.
Guergis made the comments at the riding association’s annual general meeting in New Lowell, Ont.
“It went very well,” she said after the meeting, which was closed to the public and the media.
“I had an opportunity to see my many supporters.”
Few of the 50 attendees were willing to talk about the meeting but did say there was no discussion about whether Guergis should remain their candidate.
Afterward, Guergis gave a brief statement and did not take any questions before getting into the passenger seat of a waiting minivan.
“It’s really not appropriate for me to be answering, I know, the many questions that you do have,” she said.
“I am anxious to answer those questions, but I will not be doing that right now.”
Guergis is sitting as an independent Tory MP after she resigned her junior cabinet post and was turfed from the Conservative caucus amid scandal.
She and her husband Rahim Jaffer, a former Conservative MP, are disputing allegations ranging from illegal lobbying to tax evasion.
