Mike Crawley
The Liberal crisis
Only Justin Trudeau, who has seemed to rule out a run, rivals Rae for generating interest
Liberal rebuilding: cautious optimism, but also fear the party hasn’t yet hit bottom
A preview of our cover story this week
Liberal Party to supporters: I love ya, tomorrow
An email from Liberal Party president Mike Crawley, in response to smart-ass heckling about the party’s refusal to respond to Conservative attack ads against their leader:
Bob Rae and the Liberal leadership dance
May 19, 2011. Bob Rae is giving up on his dream of leading the Liberal Party, offering instead to act as interim leader and taking on a rump caucus with diminished resources and a huge rebuilding task ahead. The Toronto Centre MP sent out a letter to the caucus Thursday, saying he would seek the interim leadership and agreeing to forfeit a run for the permanent party leadership.
Avoiding pitfalls, the Liberals give themselves a chance
The clearest danger for the Liberals was that they might have rejected reform
Change?
Delegates have elected Mike Crawley—seemingly the choice of a certain contingent of younger Liberals—over Sheila Copps for the post of party president. If he does his job properly, you’ll never hear of him again.
A peek behind the curtain
Liberal party presidential candidate Mike Crawley’s war room is a hub of action; volunteers are assembling swag kits, making stickers, and entering data, all to ensure their candidate becomes the next president of the Liberal party of Canada.
Ignatieff on Mike Crawley
This morning, Anonymous Liberal Sources sat down again with Michael Ignatieff. We talked about his view from the stage at last night’s tribute and his thoughts on what comes next for the Liberals. We’ll have a longer piece later, but will leave you with this snippet where he mentions presidential candidate Mike Crawley: