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The Kinsella Brothers?

The Missing Brother?

The Kinsella touch has once again set back the Liberals in the BC election…

Documents from the legislative library list lobbyist payments of almost $300,000 from BC Rail to Patrick Kinsella, a well-known Liberal strategist, were brought up in court yesterday, in the Basi-Virk corruption trial.

“What we don’t know is why would BC Rail have a lobbyist and pay him $297,000,” McCullough told the judge, adding that the defence was seeking third-party records to partly answer that question. And apparently neither does BC Rail.

In an e-mail to Kevin Mahoney, then vice-president of BC Rail, from another executive, asking: “Why are we paying this guy?” and that the response was that Kinsella was a “backroom Liberal.”

The Liberals sold off the government-owned railway’s freight operations to Canadian National Railway for $1 billion in 2003.  During this period , Kinsella chaired two successful B.C. Liberal election campaigns.

Now it looks like the past has risen up to haunt another Kinsella… and it’s going to be doing some serious damage to the BC Liberals.

Now that the documents have been unveiled in  the courts, there is no way the “Kinsella” spin can be used to hide the facts. Watch the Liberals duck for cover.