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“Who Knew What, When?”
Stephen Maher, PostMediaNews
On ‘The House” Feb 25, 2012
Now.
I don’t know for sure.
But I do know that at least a couple our readers knew something in April of 2011.
How do I know this for sure?
Because, after I wrote a series of posts about Mr. Michael Sona’s involvement, together with a very fine online publication called the
‘Landmark Report’ in a conflaguration that took place at an advance student polling station in Guelph Ontario, the following exchange took place
in the comment threads:
G West
said…CBC is now reporting that Elections Canada has ruled they are good votes and a valid process…Haven’t heard anything further from Sona.
Anonymous said…@Anon3, Yeah the calls are being investigated by EC at the request of the Liberals most of them have been traced to North Dakota…seems like the Republicans have their tea partiers working overtime campaining for the cons.
RossK said…Thanks All.Unfortunately, I just don’t see the hard evidence re: the recent calls, robo or otherwise, and where they are actually coming from.It is interesting to note, however, that we out here in Lotusland had some most peculiar phone calling going down late in the 2008 election cycle that targetted a particular left-sided group of voters in the riding of, surprise!, of Mr. Gary Lunn.
Anonymous said…They have been traced to some numbers in North Dakota. This fact has been widely reported. One of the first ridings to recieve these calls was that of Liberal MP Joe Volpe(high percentage of wealthy upper middle class voters and a big con target cuz of the Jewish vote).
RossK said…Thanks Anon.Will follow.
Now, a couple of things.
First, as Kady O’Malley also said this morning on ‘The House’, these stories were out there at the time, but it took Maher and his compatriot from the OCitizen (and BlogCrawl denizen) Glen McGregor to sit down, look at all the stories, and do so more digging over a period of weeks to see the bigger picture of the systematic efforts to affect the vote in, by Maher’s count at the moment, at least 18 ridings.
Second, I did do a little digging at the time, but ran up against this North Dakota area code problem which from what learned is apparently where scammers go to be completely anonymous.
Which, I think, begs another question that is not quite, but almost, buried in Mr. Maher’s question at the top of the post….
Did somebody know this would come out eventually and, given that, did they, perhaps, make sure they had a pre-packaged, pre-planned limited hang-out all set and ready to whip out when needed down the road?
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Again.
I, like many others, including, I think, Ms. Malley (“how come his name was floated by all the usual suspects and consevative sources within five minutes after the story broke?”) believe that Mr. Sona is being scape-goated here because, as Mr. Maher also said on the CBC this morning:
“This was not one kid with a robo-dialer”
OK?
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