Robocalls?? Tempest in a Teapot. BIG surprise.
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Tempest in a Teapot. Scandal where there was none.
I read the report (their report) there is nothing to suggest the Conservative Party deliberately misdirected voters.
The Liberal party also gave wrong information and I see no scandal there.
But hey, like I said: Harper=Sharks=Lazer Beams on their heads=equals Election Canada buckling under.
Suck it up Princess. Elections Canada has spoken.
I don't know how to say this more clearly. We agree on the facts, you simply interpret them differently. Repeating the same facts that we agree on over and over again doesn't move this conversation forward.
Where? Please provide an example?
If the calls took place or not is a factual issue, not a semantic one.
The fact that not being able to prove intent is very different than saying that nobody did anything wrong and this was all a stupid waste of time is not an issue of semantics.
How is this conversation still happening? The facts at issue are just that: Facts.
- The Conservative Party placed misleading calls to electors. This is a fact.
- The Commissioner of Canada Elections has found insufficient evidence to prove intent.
Despite Senator Mike Duffy’s testimony that Conservative operatives were behind misleading election eve phone calls in British Columbia in 2008, the Commissioner of Canada Elections has refused to reopen the investigation into the case.
Commissioner Yves Côté said “technological obstacles” and legal constraints prevent his office from reopening the case.
Côté was responding to a request from Saanich-Gulf Islands MP and Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who wanted the case reopened after Duffy's testimony that “black ops group at Conservative headquarters” were behind the calls.
“They used robocalls to misdirect NDP voters, to split the vote and allow Gary Lunn to win,” Duffy testified. He said Lunn didn’t know about the effort.
The office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections investigated complaints about the calls, but failed to discover the source and said investigators couldn’t determine whether the calls had influenced anyone’s vote.
Last December, Duffy — who would be acquitted of 31 charges, many of them involving travel he billed to the Senate — described in court the rationale for a 2009 trip to help Lunn.
“He’d had a close call during the previous election, and it was only through the divine intervention of [late former senator and campaign manager] Doug Finley’s black ops group at Conservative headquarters that he managed to get himself re-elected,” Duffy reportedly told the court.
Lunn wasn’t involved, Duffy testified. “He knew nothing about it, except that they phoned him afterward and said ‘You’re welcome Gary.’ He said ‘What?’ [They said] ‘We got you in.’”
Following Duffy’s testimony, Lunn told the Canadian Press that he never knew who made the misleading calls and never told Duffy that it was Conservative headquarters.
Finley died in 2013 after a long battle with colorectal cancer.
Duffy did not respond to a request for an interview Wednesday.
No Investigation into Duffy’s Allegations of Election Fraud | The Tyee
Commissioner Yves Côté said “technological obstacles” and legal constraints prevent his office from reopening the case.
Côté was responding to a request from Saanich-Gulf Islands MP and Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who wanted the case reopened after Duffy's testimony that “black ops group at Conservative headquarters” were behind the calls.
“They used robocalls to misdirect NDP voters, to split the vote and allow Gary Lunn to win,” Duffy testified. He said Lunn didn’t know about the effort.
The office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections investigated complaints about the calls, but failed to discover the source and said investigators couldn’t determine whether the calls had influenced anyone’s vote.
Last December, Duffy — who would be acquitted of 31 charges, many of them involving travel he billed to the Senate — described in court the rationale for a 2009 trip to help Lunn.
“He’d had a close call during the previous election, and it was only through the divine intervention of [late former senator and campaign manager] Doug Finley’s black ops group at Conservative headquarters that he managed to get himself re-elected,” Duffy reportedly told the court.
Lunn wasn’t involved, Duffy testified. “He knew nothing about it, except that they phoned him afterward and said ‘You’re welcome Gary.’ He said ‘What?’ [They said] ‘We got you in.’”
Following Duffy’s testimony, Lunn told the Canadian Press that he never knew who made the misleading calls and never told Duffy that it was Conservative headquarters.
Finley died in 2013 after a long battle with colorectal cancer.
Duffy did not respond to a request for an interview Wednesday.
No Investigation into Duffy’s Allegations of Election Fraud | The Tyee
Well that sure explains the last federal result. And it REALLY explains the last few Ontario results.
This is how stupid some Liberal voters are. There was a news report that got posted to FB about how Ontario's Grade 6 students were sucking hind *** in math. The ONLY party that owns that problem is the Liberals and I pointed it out.
Some Libtard supporter then tried to berate me by stating I'm "biased and obviously not too bright because the Liberals have been in power for less than a year." :lol::lol: