BraleyWatch: Not the most auspicious beginning for our new senator

  From today's Globe and Mail:

As the Prime Minister's Office announced Mr. Braley's appointment, opposition Liberal researchers said he personally donated $16,500 to Mr. Harper's 2004 leadership campaign and that his company Orlick Industries, an auto-parts manufacturer, donated another $30,000. Mr. Braley rejected those numbers. 

"You better check your facts because they are not correct," he said from his Florida residence.

According to the list of contributors to Stephen Harper's 2004 leadership campaign, a D.O. Braley did, indeed, make two separate donations -- $8,000 and $8,500 -- with an additional $30,000 coming from Orlick Industries Ltd. 

 Now, it's entirely possible that the details of exactly how much he contributed may have slipped his mind -- it's been more than six years, after all. But you'd think that he would have have had the presence of mind to preemptively heed his own advice to the Globe, and check the facts first.