BC Conservative party leader John Cummins may be facing trouble from within.
Party director John Crocock denies there was an effort made last weekend at a board meeting to oust Cummins.
“Well no…I mean..we are always always trying to improve ourselves and things like that and there is always different things I mean people can try to say what they want or whatever but we are the Conservatives we are trying to improve ourselves we are trying to..you know…this is one of the things is that we have to make sure we have out leadership review every year.”
Crocock says rather the push was to review his leadership per party bylaws.
“No no not at all we are just having a leadership review in our bylaws we have to have a leadership review, right now, they might change but right now every year we have a leadership review, it builds up moral, people get asked do you support the leader, that scenario and that is another good reason to go to the AGM.”
He was asked if he will support Cummins in a leadership review.
“Well thats..thats silent..uuh is a silent ballot either way I am not..I am not..you know..hey that was a good one…(laughs)…as I said its …its uuhhh..that is a month from now and we will see what we can do.”
The leadership review will be held at the party’s annual general meeting in Langley September 22nd.
For his part the leader of the BC Conservative party says he doesn’t feel threatened by the pending review of his leadership.
“We are looking forward to it and fully support the review it is required by the existing constitution and ,,.you know I think it is a great idea it holds everybody to account and it makes the membership feel they have a say in the way things are run.”
John Cummins says while some within the party might be unhappy most support him.
“Well you know most of the party is quite supportive when I took the party over if you look at the you know last provincial election the party got two percent of the vote we are consistently above twenty percent which was our first target we are set to move even higher this fall I would say that the vast majority of the party feels the same.”
Cummins is also playing down the departure of Hamish Marshall.
“He has got two new start up companies that he is operating and travels quite frequently and he was unable to continue as campaign director.”
When contacted BC Tory mla John van Dongen declined to comment on internal party matters.
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