Rob Anders is an idiot

I was saddened that a judge has overruled the acclamation of neo-Con nutbar Rob Anders in the riding of Calgary West.

Judge overrules MP's acclamation
New nomination meeting ordered in Calgary West riding held by Rob Anders
JAMES STEVENSON (CP)
CALGARY -- The federal Conservative Party appeared unwilling to back down from a legal fight with its own members yesterday after an Alberta judge ordered a new nomination meeting in the Calgary riding held by controversial MP Rob Anders. Just hours after the release of the written ruling that set aside Mr. Anders's acclamation
last August, the party tried unsuccessfully to have it blocked pending an appeal.
A lawyer for an anti-Anders group said yesterday afternoon that he would be "astounded" if another stay application didn't go to Alberta's Court of Appeal early next week. In a terse statement, Conservative Party president Don Plett said the Tories "will be reviewing the decision carefully." The legal manoeuvring came after a victory by 11 disgruntled Conservatives who have fought Mr. Anders's acclamation since last summer, claiming that the party didn't follow its own rules regarding nomination races.
Mr. Justice Ged Hawco of the Court of Queen's Bench agreed that the party didn't conduct a "fair and effective candidate selection process" and didn't adhere to the rules about setting nomination meeting dates.
Along with ordering the Tories to hold a new nomination process, Judge Hawco ordered the party to pay all legal costs in the protracted dispute.
Mr. Anders has been at the centre of unwelcome attention for the Conservative Party and its predecessors dating back to 2001, when he was the only MP to vote against making Nelson Mandela an honorary citizen of Canada. He defended his actions by stating that Mr. Mandela was a Communist and a terrorist.
He faced a wrongful dismissal suit from a former staffer who alleged that the Calgary politician borrowed cash from him, which was repaid, in part, by taxpayers through salary increases, false travel expenses and with furniture from the constituency office.
Before entering politics, the University of Calgary graduate worked as a heckler in the 1994 Senate campaign for Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe, which earned him the label of "a foreign political saboteur" from CNN.

The reason I hope that Anders is the candidate is because of my support for big Al at Mascots Galore and that with Anders' removal, mascots will be disenfranchised.
And I for one believe that the rights of mascots are as important as the rights of those who don't want to be represented by an idiot.