No buxom porn star has yet emerged from the unsettling and increasingly stormy campaign of PC Leader Doug Ford.

But there are weeks yet until the June 7 election. So who’s to say what surprise might be lurking in his anything-apparently-goes organization?

Call it a swamp. Call it a gravy train. But this week, the Ford campaign is looking messier by the day.

The most worrisome of the mounting missteps is Ontario’s version of the Cambridge Analytica affair in the U.S. that caused such headaches for Facebook and raised questions about abuses of private information in President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory.

Simmer Sandhu, a PC candidate in Brampton East, quit suddenly on Wednesday after his former employer, 407 ETR, said it was investigating the “inside theft” of names, addresses and phone numbers of 60,000 users of the toll highway.

Since then, voters in Ontario have reported receiving messages from the PC party. And media have reported that the pilfered data might have been used by dozens of PC candidates.

Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne properly called on Ford to report the matter to police for investigation.

The Liberals have also called for an Elections Ontario probe into Ford’s attendance at a $250-a-plate fundraiser on April 29 – which they argue violated election finance laws.

It goes on.

The National Post has reported that Parm Gill, a PC candidate in Milton, asked another party member in 2016 not to challenge him for a nomination, suggesting a gravy train of well-paying jobs would be available should the party win the election.

“The opportunities are limitless,” Gill, a former federal MP, is reported to have boasted on a recording of a conversation between the two men.

To be fair, Ford is not the first leader, as a political wave crests behind him, to find himself in charge of an odd collection of flotsam and jetsom.

Former premier Bob Rae had to be introduced to some of his MPPs, and was less than delighted at what he found, after the NDP won an upset victory in 1990.

Similarly, Brian Mulroney in 1984 and the late federal NDP Leader Jack Layton in 2011 found their caucuses to be considerably more exotic than what they had bargained on.

But Ford rode in to succeed disgraced former PC leader Patrick Brown on the twin promises of clean government and watching every penny of spending.

The latest news of corruption and enthusiastic, if premature, trough-snuffling suggested he hasn’t succeeded at that even within his own party.

Ford has already jettisoned former candidate Tanya Granic Allen in Mississauga – whose support helped win him the leadership — after a tape surfaced of her making what the leader called “irresponsible” statements about sex education and gay marriage.

And if Granic Allen was unpalatable to Ford, opponents say there are other PC candidates – most notably radio Andrew Lawton in London – who should be bounced as a result of discriminatory views he has expressed about non-Christians and women.

There is plenty of reason for Ontarians to be alarmed at Ford’s track record, his lack of experience, his personal record of impulsivity, vulgarity and disruption.

There will be those too troubled by a set of seemingly off-the-cuff policy proposals that are only sketchily explained and – with promised budget cuts, spending campaigns, no job cuts and forgone revenue — simply do not add up.

What all Ontarians should be concerned about, however, is the increasing stench and apparent want of integrity surrounding PCs candidates and, by extension, their leader.

Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...

Not long ago, Vic Fedeli, a PC party elder, said the party structure was full of rot and he claimed, after a few weeks, to have rooted it out.

Well, a lot of ethical creepy-crawlies continue to wriggle out from that painted-over blue edifice.

Ontarians will want to look very closely at the quality of what they’re being asked to buy.

Read more about: