Once again, conservative outreach to minorities goes horribly wrong (UPDATE)

Karl Rove, please pick up the white courtesy phone…

The Ontario PC Party has dissolved its Barrie riding association after two board members were charged with gang sexual assault.

Riding association president Sarfraz Warraich, 42, of Barrie, has been charged with gang sexual assault and attempting to obstruct justice.

A second board member, 43-year-old Barrie resident Arif Mehmood, has also been charged with gang sexual assault.

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Also charged with gang sexual assault are Ashfaq Gondal, 50, of Barrie; Sardar Muhammad, 45, of Barrie; and Zaidy Hussian, 37, of Innisfil. None of them are linked to the riding association, according to sources.

All five men — four of whom have their occupations on court documents listed as taxi drivers — are scheduled to appear in court next Wednesday.

An interpreter in Erdu, an official language in Pakistan, has also been requested for the court proceedings. 

UPDATE:

A reader asks if these are a few of those famous “poor foreign cab drivers with PhDs” we never hear the end of and are bullied into feeling sorry for…