Tory leadership hopeful’s campaign manager quits after controversial actions
OTTAWA — The campaign manager for Conservative leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch has resigned after being the centre of some recent controversies.
Nick Kouvalis posted on Facebook that he is quitting because it has become clear he has become a distraction to Leitch’s campaign.
He says a campaign should be about the candidate and not the conduct of the candidate’s staff.
Kouvalis attracted considerable attention in the media and online after being quoted as referring to a constitutional expert who was critical of Leitch’s policies as a “cuck,” short for cuckhold. The word has been used amongst the American “alt-right” movement to describe Republicans who they perceive to be emasculated or “selling out.”