BC Conservatives fire fourth candidate, senior volunteer steps down

The BC Conservatives have fired the third candidate in a week and a senior volunteer has stepped down, John Cummins announced Sunday.

Cummins said Vancouver-West End candidate Ron Herbert has been fired, but the reason he was let go is still unclear.

In light of the first two candidates who were let go, Cummins ordered a full re-vetting of all Conservative candidates.

As a result of the process, the senior volunteer responsible for vetting has stepped down.

Last week, the Conservatives announced that Ian Tootill would no longer represent the party in Vancouver-False Creek, after it was revealed he posted controversial comments on Twitter last fall about Nazi dicator Adolph Hitler.

Tootill asked “Who’s really to blame? Hitler or the people who acted on his words?”

That was just two days after North Vancouver-Lonsdale candidate Jeff Sprague stepped down in the midst of a drunk driving investigation.

Their candidate for Boundary-Similkameen Mischa Popoff was also dismissed because of written comments the party called “insensitive and disrespectful” towards women.

With files from the Canadian Press