By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs “Jim Ross [Front Porch’s Canadian liaison and Con MP Rick Dykstra’s […]
A Modest Opinion – Who you gonna Robo-call?
By Nathaniel Moher As I’m sure most of you have heard, the Conservatives are in a bit of a hot spot (and I’m not just talking about the prairies). It seems that Harps and his conservatives are being accused of a placing phone calls during the last election, giving out the wrong address for polling […]
Ohi – uh-oh
By Alison@Creekside Poor old Mr. Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Maestro, out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent “millions of dollars” in the last election hiring a foreign voter telemarketing company with offices in North Dakota — which turned out not to be […]
Robocalls, Vikileaks: One of these things is not like the other
By Montreal Simon When I hear Vic Toews howling that he’s being victimized. WAAAAAAAH !!!! Because he can’t do his job after being “anonymously degraded” by Vikileaks. “I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member of the House,” Toews said, adding that the anonymous account […]
More gravy on my Poutine, please
By Montreal Simon You know it takes a certain kind of mentality to pay cash for a disposable cellphone, like criminals do, and call the phony owner Pierre Poutine. A telephone number used to place automated calls directing voters to the wrong polling station in Guelph, Ont., in the last federal election was registered to […]
Harper’s implausible deniability
By Alison@Creekside In writing about the Cons’ dirty tricks robocall election fraud, John Ibbitson muses whether the Cons might just bear some “measure of responsibility” for creating a political climate in which their “rogue” campaign managers impersonate Election Canada officials on Election Day in order to send voters off to the wrong or non-existing polling […]
