The campaign has been successful - Clark is set to announce the start of her leadership bid the week after next.

CivicScene has just received word that Christy Clark will announce her candidacy for the BC Liberal leadership the week after next.

Sources say that she will spend next week submitting her letter of resignation to CKNW, working out the terms of her departure, and filing the necessary paperwork with the party.

CivicScene has also learned that Mike McDonald, the former B.C. Liberal caucus communications director in Victoria, is rumoured to have accepted the job as Clark’s campaign manager.

McDonald will be known to some political observers from the allegations of the defense team in the Basi-Virk trial, which claimed that he was supervising political dirty tricks directly out of a government office, including stacking phone calls to talk radio shows on CKNW.  These allegations, made by Kevin McCullough, the former lawyer for Bob Virk, were of course never proven in court.

I will post more details on the Clark campaign structure as (and if) they become available.