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It would seem United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney needs a new digital team.

The guys he has now have put him in a terribly awkward spot.

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They’re the ones, according to Kenney, who pulled the plug on his personal web page shortly before the UCP founding convention 10 days ago.

In politics, timing is everything. And the plug-pulling couldn’t have come at a worse time.

Kenney’s web page talked about how he would listen to party members when it came to drafting party policy.

He called it a grassroots guarantee: “The policies of the United Conservative Party must be developed democratically by its grassroots members, not imposed by its leader.”

Kenney was, by golly, so serious about the “guarantee” he had it printed on a big piece of cardboard.

To emphasize his point, his web page was even addressed www.grassrootsguarantee.ca.

Nobody seemed to notice when the page went dark May 2, just two days before the opening of the UCP’s founding convention. But then came the policy debates May 6 when party delegates passed some contentious resolutions, including one that essentially called for students to be “outed” to their parents for joining a gay-straight alliance (GSA).