Former Liberal fundraiser and Toronto mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi is jumping ship — to the Ontario Progressive Conservatives.
“I believe we have a government that’s tired, that’s run out of ideas,” said Rossi on Tuesday. “Well that’s not gonna get it done when we’re faced with skyrocketing hydro bills, higher taxes and job losses. Ontario needs and wants change.”
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Rossi, 47, is a former national director of the Liberal Party of Canada. He was one of the few members of Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff’s inner circle left standing after a shakeup in the fall of 2009 that was designed to reverse the party’s sharp decline in recent opinion polls.
Rossi is planning to run in Eglinton-Lawrence, where the Liberal candidate won last time by about 2,000 votes. More here.
Some folks, who strongly supported Rossi in the Toronto mayoral race, seem unhappy with his decision (“Benedict Baldy”? Seriously?)
For being willing to make the move to Tim Hudak’s PCs, I have to give Rossi anti-partisan credit. Good luck to him.
