OTTAWA — Joe Volpe’s trouble-plagued bid to become the next Liberal leader suffered another, possibly fatal, blow with the resignation Friday of his national campaign manager.
In a written statement released late Friday, Volpe said Jim Karygiannis, a controversial Toronto MP, “has left the campaign as a result of the position taken by the candidate on the current crisis in the Middle East.”
In the 2003 contest, when he was working for Martin, Karygiannis was accused of employing bullying tactics that one riding president said was like “something out of the Sopranos.”
Karygiannis is the second MP to bolt from Volpe’s campaign. B.C. MP Sukh Dhaliwal left last spring shortly after it was revealed that Volpe had accepted $108,000 in donations from 20 current and former executives of pharmaceutical giant Apotex, their spouses and their children, including 11-year-old twins; Volpe eventually returned $27,000 received from five donors under the age of 18.
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