Mandryk: Weekes pays price for choosing the right thing over politics
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Mandryk: Weekes pays price for choosing the right thing over politics

Politics tamfitronics Being a Sask. Party legislator has nothing to do with doing the right thing if the right thing produces political embarrassment. Get the latest from Murray Mandryk straight to your inbox Published Jun 17, 2024 • 3 minute readWhen Randy Weekes said "enough is enough" and tore up his membership card, the issue in play was very much one of integrity. regIf you go back more than a quarter century to the early days of the Saskatchewan Party formation, one doubts anyone had Randy Weekes on their bingo card as a potential problem for the party.Bill Boyd? Absolutely. Jeremy Harrison? Probably. But Randall Percival Weekes? Inconceivable.Since he was first elected in 1999, Weekes spent most of his career as either an Opposition (from 1999 to 2007) or government backbencher, except for a...
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