Nectarios "Nick" Kouvalis was born on 1975 and is a Canadian political consultant and strategist.
11 Facts About Nick Kouvalis
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Nick Kouvalis is a principal strategist of Campaign Research, a firm which he co-founded in 2008 with Richard Ciano.
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Nick Kouvalis was appointed Ford's chief of staff in October 2010, overseeing the transition and initial months of Ford's mayoralty, but stepped down in February 2011 citing the need to spend more time with his family.
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Ford's brother, Councillor Doug Ford, said that Nick Kouvalis remained "loyal" to the brothers and would continue to be a senior advisor.
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Nick Kouvalis was the chief strategist for John Tory's successful campaign to replace Rob Ford in the 2014 Toronto mayoral election.
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Nick Kouvalis later was a member of Tory's transition team under chief of staff Case Ootes.
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In 2007, Nick Kouvalis was acquitted in the Ontario Court of Justice for allegedly uttering a death threat against Jeff Watson, a Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament.
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Nick Kouvalis was accused of saying if he could kill Watson "with [his] bare hands and get away with it, I would," on July 13,2005 while he was serving as campaign manager to Conservative candidate Rick Fuschi.
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In 2011, Nick Kouvalis' firm received a few complaints through the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association over phone calls in the Montreal electoral riding of Mount Royal.
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Nick Kouvalis resigned as manager of Kellie Leitch's Conservative leadership campaign in February 2017 after he became the focus of media coverage for a series of posts on Twitter calling Emmett Macfarlane, a University of Waterloo political science professor, a "cuck" and a "traitor" after Macfarlane criticized Leitch's proposed policies and compared her to Donald Trump.
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Nick Kouvalis later deleted the posts and issued an apology to Macfarlane.