Ignatieff Operations Director Sachin Aggarwal's attack on Iggy's former university roommate, is seen as an especially decency-resistant strain of the disease.
OTTAWA — The Liberal leadership race is getting ugly with Michael Ignatieff's camp urging the party to negate most of chief rival Bob Rae's delegate support in British Columbia.The Rae organisation is dismayed that the virulent nature of the latest attack may simply be an attempt to deflect attention from the recent "Iggy gets jiggy with Islam" brouhaha.
In an appeal filed Friday and obtained by The Canadian Press, Mr. Ignatieff operations director Sachin Aggarwal accuses Mr. Rae's senior B.C. organizer of perpetrating "systematic fraud" during the sign-up of potential delegates in the province.
Mr. Rae's camp reacted to the appeal, and its leak to CP, with barely restrained fury.
"All campaigns should work through the processes set up to examine such claims rather than simply go to the media with appeals filled with hyperbole and allegations not rooted in the rules," said Alex Swann, a Rae campaign spokesman.
He said the timing of the appeal is "odd if not suspicious," coming just as Mr. Ignatieff is mired in controversy after accusing Israel of war crimes.
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