Bernardo admirer tricked Tories

[Linda C]

One ugly and vicious woman I say.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/26/bernardo-admirer-tricked-tories
In one of the more bizarre twists during the run-up to the federal election, a former Paul Bernardo admirer and dangerous offender has been booted from the campaign team of a Toronto Conservative candidate. Michelle Erstikaitis, 31, told the Sun Monday night she dyed her hair and used a fake name to join the campaign team of Kevin Moore (Toronto-Centre) as an envelope stuffer last week.

Just weeks earlier, Erstikaitis had been released from Vanier prison for women in Milton, where she was awaiting sentencing for a plethora of charges, including the stabbing of her boyfriend in 2009. At her April 7 sentencing, Erstikaitis -- who was convicted of assault with a weapon -- was given credit for time served and released to a halfway house, but also declared a dangerous offender.

David Gentili, a spokesman for Moore, confirmed Erstikaitis joined the campaign last week as a volunteer under the name Elle Lisson and was fired early Monday after campaign officials received a "heads up" from a member of the Conservative Party of her true identity.

"We had a volunteer come in to the campaign last week to help with the mailing," said Gentili. "She went under a fake name, so we were unaware of her past ... so that's why we've asked her to (quit)." Gentili would not say who tipped campaign officials off that Erstikaitis was once a self-professed admirer of Paul Bernardo and even stalked the convicted schoolgirl killer.

In 1999, her obsession drove her to call--and threaten to kill -- Debbie Mahaffy, the mother of Leslie Mahaffy, who was brutally murdered byBernardo almost a decade earlier. Erstikaitis was handed two years probation as a result. "Kevin Moore had no idea who I was, he had no idea of my background," Erstikaitis told the Sun Monday night from the Elizabeth Fry halfway house on Wellesley St. E, near Sherbourne St. "Mr. Moore is a wonderful man and he should be absolved of this."

Erstikaitis was declared a dangerous offender earlier in April by Ontario Superior Court justice Todd Archibald after sentencing hearings that included psychiatric reports diagnosing her with personality and conduct disorders. As part of her release, Erstikaitis, who calls herself a "staunch conservative", is under a 10-year supervision order and will be closely scrutinized by parol officers. Erstikaitis also served time after pleading guilty to arson after a fire in a Hamilton apartment building in 1999.

 

[x Fireheart<3 Mackenzie C]

-10000/10

 

[cathima]

Why I never bother voting.

 

[The Dark Knight.]

Well, you can't really fault the politician for this. I highly doubt they have the time or the resources to do background checks on everyone who walks through their door....

This woman though sounds like she's a prime example of someoene who should be locked up until such a time that she demonstrates that she won't be a danger to society. I mean, she's been classified as a dangerous offender so why is she out walking around?

 

[Crissy S]

She got booted but it doesn't make a difference. If Harper's policies appeal to psychopaths and racists then he's the guy to be worried about, not some nobody stuffing envelopes as a volunteer.

 

[Nikolai]

I'm sure that the policies of all parties have some appeal to nutbars. Even socialist nutbars.
Remember that there are people in the former Soviet republics who are looking back on Stalin's years as "The Good Old Days"

 

[preppychick44]

You are one sharp mind. I have read that but cannot remember where or when. Man you are good.