Conservatives in action. Pissing off the stroller moms

They are trying anything to get the female vote. Anything. From Sue Bailey: (My emphasis)

An Ottawa children's shop owner says she feels duped after she and several other moms expecting a major announcement on child care wound up as props in a Tory campaign photo.

Krista Thompson says she was contacted by an organizer in Conservative MP Royal Galipeau's office who was seeking a place where moms and tots congregate.

Thompson, a 37-year-old mother of three, co-owns Boomerang Kids which sells children's products and offers free exercise and social gatherings each weekday morning.

The Conservatives told her they were looking for a place where Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Rona Ambrose could reveal new daycare details, says Thompson.

That should have immediately raised suspicions for two reasons:

1. It's Rona Ambrose;

2. The Harperites don't do daycare.

The shop owner saw it as a good chance for marketing exposure and offered moms a 20-per-cent discount on store items, along with free T-shirts, to attend.

"But we're not partisan," Thompson said Wednesday.

"The truth of the matter is we agreed to do it because they said they were making a big announcement about child care. And what became evident by the end of the day was there was no announcement.

"I'm feeling incredibly naive in this whole thing. ... I'm a whole lot more eyes-wide-open after this than I was before.

"It's embarrassing."

What Ms. Thompson has now learned, along with all the others who were duped into this scam, is that it doesn't matter what the Conservatives say. They have their own plan and it centres on them - not you.

Galipeau's campaign manager, Wendy Noble Woodcock, could not immediately explain what happened.

"I was told there would be a child funding announcement so that's what I told them because that's what I was told," she said in an interview.

Cool. The Conservative candidates are now lying to their campaign managers.

It doesn't get better than that.