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Things go from bad to worse for Conservative MP Eve Adams

You have to believe that Tory MP Eve Adams' career prospects within the Conservative Party of Canada are pretty much dead in the water.

The current MP from Mississauga Brampton is aggressively seeking the Conservative Party nomination in Oakville North-Burlington where she now lives.

Earlier this week, her fiance — Dimitri Soudas — was fired by the party for interfering in her nomination race.

And now, there's a leaked letter from the Conservative Party's Oakville riding president to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, slamming Adams' and her behaviour.

"It is with heavy heart that I fell I must write you directly with regard to recent actions by Eve Adams MP that I believe are both negatively impacting the internal workings of our local association and are beginning to take a toll on the brand of the Party," Mark Fedak wrote in the letter dated April 1.

"I was originally going to write you about a specific matter after our last board meeting...Sadly things have only gotten worse."

Fedak goes on to cite several alleged wrong-doings: He claimed that Adams told a local contractor — a map-maker — not to work with the local riding association; he complained about the MP sending taxpayer funded mailouts to Oakville — a riding that she doesn't represent; and he complained about Adams' behaviour at a recent board meeting.

"Upon her arrival, we explained that we were not aware of her intent to attend, explained our circumstances and offered her an opportunity to be invited to the next regularly scheduled Board Meeting," he wrote.

"Not only did she not leave, I requested nine times for her to leave. Her continuous response was to continue to filibuster the meeting. During the first 20 minutes of her appearance she went from arguing her right to be there due to her MP and member status but then started to verbally abuse at least four members of the Board directly. For myself, she pointedly asked me how much money I donated to the party annually, and said that she would use her access to CIMS data to look that up for herself."

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According to reports, Harper has asked the party's National Council to review to the allegations and report back to him.

Whatever the outcome of that review, Adams' reputation has taken a huge hit and so has the Conservative Party's brand.

While nomination battles — with any party at any level of government — can be nasty affairs, it's not often that a member of Parliament is at the centre of it.

To have a Parliamentary Secretary allegedly strong-arm her way through a nomination race, to use her position at a MP to hijack a board meeting and to use taxpayer money for mail-outs not in her riding are allegations that invariably are going to come back to Stephen Harper and his judgement.

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It's a link that NDP leader Thomas Mulcair made on Wednesday.

"Well, Stephen Harper knows that it's the Conservative database that was used to make the robocalls back in 2011. Is it surprising that his MPs are trying to use that kind of trick," Mulcair told reporters after his party's weekly caucus meeting.

"I'm glad to hear that he's doing an investigation. At least she should no longer be a Parliamentary secretary. But more fundamentally, who is the role model for this kind of behaviour — it's Stephen Harper."

(Photo courtesy of the Canadian Press)

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