Heed Says He Feels No Pain After Cabinet Resignation

VICTORIA - We're learning more tonight about what drove Kash Heed to resign as Solicitor General, allegations of political dirty tricks during an especially nasty election campaign last year.
Heed says he's actually enjoying being out of cabinet for now. And he says he had nothing to do with the third major scandal to rock the solicitor general's ministry in just two years.

But Heed's time-out hasn't been voluntary: he's resigned. He says it's out of abundance of caution, critics say he's under a cloud.

It all tracks back to a bunch of sensational campaign flyers that popped up in his constituency during last spring's bitter provincial election fight.

Dwaine martin was the NDP campaign manager in Vancouver-Fraserview in May 2009, Heed was the Liberal candidate there.

The complaint was over Chinese and English brochures that claimed the NDP supported a death tax, and wanted to legalize drugs and prostitution.

The big problem is, under the Elections Act, the flyers were supposed to identify who paid for it. They didn't.

Now questions are swirling about whether Heed's campaign was behind the mail-out.

Elections BC received a complaint in May 2009, and passed the investigation onto the RCMP the following month. Heed says he learned he was a included in that investigation late last month.

If the flyers can be linked to Heed or his campaign, it's not enough to cost him his seat. But if investigators can prove he paid for them and didn't report the expense, that's trouble.

As he has done since he quit Friday, Heed says he's done nothing wrong.

It's not known when police will complete their investigation. No criminal charges have been laid.

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