The other top NDP Leadership Candidate was Farnworth, who the Conflict Commissioner concluded had been influenced by Glen Clark into giving a Casino Licence to a Motorcycle gang.

The NDP was the best thing the BC Liberals had going for them in 2013, sad to say.

The Forensic Audit of the Nanaimo Commonwealth Criminal Conspiracy yielded a lot of surprises, including the fact that 20 years earlier the criminals had paid Bob Williams 4 years MLA salary (K$80) before Williams resigned in order for Dave Barrett to get back into the legislature in a safe NDP seat. Mike Harcourt insisted that Patrice Pratt and all the other BC NDP Party Officers who had approved a backdated "sham transaction" resign. They had tried to return stolen money to the NHCS to make it "never happened" rather than admitting publicly to receiving stolen money from former MP and MLA Stupich.

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