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Liberals reject Jodie Emery as Vancouver East candidate

Liberals reject Jodie Emery as Vancouver East candidate

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By Peter O’Neil and Tracy Sherlock, Vancouver Sun January 16, 2015 10:05 PM

Jodie Emery, the wife of controversial marijuana legalization activist Marc “Prince of Pot” Emery, will not be a Liberal candidate in the next federal election.

The party’s “green-light” committee sent Emery an email on Friday afternoon that it would not be recommending her as a nomination candidate.

“I am disappointed I won’t be on the ballot, but I do respect their decision,” Emery said, adding that the committee did not give their reasons in the email and she didn’t ask for further details.

Party rules give the committee “unfettered discretion” to determine “whether it is in the best political interests of the party” to approve the candidate.

Emery is an activist for pot legalization and has run for the B.C. Marijuana Party and the B.C. Green party.
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Not sure if I would support a candidate such as Emery, but she would definitely have made herself into a media magnet and an interesting election had she become a Liberal candidate.

Photo borrowed from the link below:
Emery candidacy in Vancouver East riding presents federal Liberals with a dilemma

Im sorry, your only cred is being married to the Prince of Pot? Gee, wonder why that didnt fly?

Liberals have enough dummy's as candidates as it is.

Just because JT is pro-legalization doesn't mean they want a nutbar activist as their public face.

On the other hand... getting her on an election campaign could mean more pics like this:

http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/718/4807946245.jpg

Damn... I'm not sure what happened to my pic, but I originally posted the very same one that Sounds posted.

Fail...

This happened:

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Last edited by SkinnyPupp; Today at 02:56 AM. Reason: no bikini pics in SFW section, sorry.

So I guess we can't post any pics of UFC fighters or any one in the Olympics going any track and field/ water events or beach volleyball.

Was Jodie Emery high when she made the decision to run?

Spoiler!

Googled her name and this came up on the right side.

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Jodie Emery
Jodie Emery is a Canadian cannabis activist, and politician.

Has she ever been elected to political office?

She's cool, that would have been interesting.

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Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 8582349)

This happened:

:okay:

Still... would smash.