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Premier DOUG FORD’s three-peat campaign whisperer KORY TENEYCKE is heading west.
The longtime Ford strategist is moving to British Columbia to help run CAROLINE ELLIOTT’s bid to lead the B.C. Conservatives and then take on NDP Premier DAVID EBY, effectively confirming Elliott’s candidacy in the process. Teneycke broke the news on the Curse of Politics podcast, saying he’s trekking out to Vancouver to get “back into the campaign management business” for a “period of time.”
Elliott, who previously orbited around the old BC Liberal Party and its successor BC United, suddenly has some serious Ontario muscle behind her.
Teneycke won’t be riding solo: JEFF BALLINGALL — the architect behind Ontario Proud’s viral 2018 meme machine that helped bring down the then-incumbent Grits — says he’s also signed on to Team Elliott. Same goes for PC pollster NICK KOUVALIS, giving the operation a familiar Ford war room v…
