Introducing the new Cecil Clarke – it’s Gerald Sampson!

Here's a bit of inside baseball, of interest only to hard core Cape Breton political junkies and residents of Cape Breton North and Victoria - The Lakes. When the federal election got underway last month, local tongues wagged and eyebrows fluttered at news that twice-defeated one-term Liberal MLA Gerald Sampson was campaigning for Harper Guy Cecil Clarke. Sampson has not exactly been a hot political property since he publicly condemned Victoria County voters as "liars" following his first defeat in 2006. Nevertheless, this was a prominent lifelong Liberal working for a CPC candidate. Aye, but here's the rub: Cecil's campaign workers are...