March 10: your morning Robocon
Something tells me that treating Stephen Maher like a leper isn’t a great media-management strategy.
Sort of suggests they have lots to hide, don’t it?
March 9: your daily Robocon
Their strategy: abuse the trust of senior citizens. What a bunch of scumbags:
Elections Canada investigators sifting through a flood of complaints that have emerged about dirty tricks in the spring 2011 campaign have started to notice this pattern as they call back Canadians to verify details of the suspicious phone calls they have reported receiving.
Most of those who received an automated phone call telling them their polling station had been changed say they were previously contacted by the Conservative Party and indicated that they would not be supporting their local Tory candidate.
Now federal elections officials say that the fraudulent phone calls targeted older voters.
“Every single person I’ve contacted has been (born) between 1947 and 1949,” said one unidentified Elections Canada employee who was following up on the complaints Friday morning.
Pierre Poutine: the movie
Harper’s Cons won’t be defeated by Robocon
There’s only one thing that can defeat him: Nathan Cullen – or, perhaps, Nathan Cullen’s idea.
Swear to God: if I was a member of the NDP, I’d be busting my hump for this guy.
Fryer apologizes
March 8: your afternoon Robocon
Her Majesty and the gay-hating, women-hating, equality-hating REAL Women of Canada
Quote:
The Canadian Queen’s Diamond Jubilee program is awarding medals to 60,000 “outstanding” Canadians, according to the Governor General’s website.
Who is REAL Women of Canada?
I wrote about them nearly two decades ago, in Web of Hate. Here are some of the things you should know about them:
- One of their directors was Rita Ann Hartmann, who led the Ottawa-based Northern Foundation. Hartmann’s husband Paul was a Ku Klux Klan and Western Guard leader; two of their sons were active in the neo-Nazi Heritage Front in the Ottawa area.
- Hartmann maintained connections with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups across North America, such as the Confederate Hammerskins, while simultaneously acting as a legal advisor to REAL Women of Canada. At one early REAL Women conference in Ottawa, Hartmann gave an anti-abortion speech.
- Later on, Wolgang Droege, the founder and leader of the Heritage Front, told me: “The Northern Foundation was the start of it all for the Heritage Front. From that point on, things really took off.”
At no point am I aware of REAL Women of Canada having denounced Hartmann or her involvement with neo-Nazi causes. Following the 1994 publication of Web of Hate, instead, REAL Women of Canada continued to promote bigotry and division, albeit less aggressively than their director Hartmann.
In the intervening years, then, REAL Women has consistently shown themselves to be anti-gay, anti-choice and anti-equality. There is plenty of evidence, for those who have the stomach for it. (Those who wish to provide cited examples in comments are encouraged to do so.)
I want to get a letter-writing campaign going, today – fittingly, on International Women’s Day – to Her Majesty and Rideau Hall about this outrage.
You can write to Her Majesty here, with the style and structure you should adopt.
You can write to Rideau Hall here.
This is important, on this day of all days. Please do this.
About John Fryer
Norman Spector has known him for years, so too have many others who have a high regard for him. The suggestion that anyone would call a Member of the Order of Canada a “liar,” as the Campaign Research cabal have done, strikes me as inviting a lawsuit.
Here, from a regular commenter, is some further info about how John came to be invited to the Manning Centre vote-suprression discussion:
Actually, the Manning Centre promoted the campaign training school thing to their mailing list. One of our Green Party colleagues on the GPC Federal Council was a former Conservative-Reformer from Alberta, he received the promotional email, and forwarded it to a number of people (myself included) who were trying to professionalise the Green Party national campaign.
I blogged abouit it, and publicised it to the Green Party in general. John Fryer was Federal Council member for BC, and had just been made campaign Manager of Elizabeth May’s SGI Campaign in the pre-writ period. He was obviously preparing for the task, and enrolled himself in the Campaign School. You see, some of us wanted to transform the GPC voters list and conact database into a winning machine like CIMS, and start building a useful voter intention and issues based DB.
…the Manning Centre did not invite anybody in particular. I guess they figured if John had found out about it, he must be ‘true blue’…If you know John, then that is really funny. His entire life has been about Labour and Politics. While I do not know John Fryer very well, he has struck me as meticuloulsy honest and canny. If he said something happened, then it is true. If he merely suspected then he would have kept his mouth shut.
That is my opinion anyway, but at least it is formed with some pêrsonal knowledge about the person involved.
Unreal women
We shall find out, soon enough.
March 7: your morning Robocon
- The noose tightens: “The mysterious “Pierre Poutine” at the centre of the robocalls scandal used a real street address in Quebec when he set up an account to send out misleading election day messages and left a digital trail that could help investigators discover his true identity.”
- What happened at the Manning Centre?: Again, Preston Manning calls the spreading electoral fraud allegations “bad.” But a still-unrebutted shocker by a B.C. professor states that the Manning Centre taught courses in how to suppress the vote, seen here. So which is it?
- Follow the money: …and the follow the lists. As BCL and others have noted, whomever has the central list – in the Reformatories’ case, CIMS – is ultimately in a position to execute a multi-jurisdictional vote suppression campaign. This fool from Saskatchewan has now perhaps confirmed that the election fraud could not have happened without the knowledge, or involvement, of at least one person in the central CPC campaign. A presentation I did about how they created that fabled database is here: