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Recapping….
Sun News pre-empts all the other media one day, and at the same time identifies/elevates the profile a staffer who’s name is served up by a Conservative Party ‘investigation’ into its own alleged election irregularities .
And the next day said staffer, who has become a national scape-goat in less than 24 hrs, is either fired and/or resigns after a whole lot of his easiest to see tracks are first covered, including publicly available stuff on his Twitter feed, stuff I’ve screen-shot in the past (scroll down the page if you want to see a couple).*
Anyway, sure would appear to be an excellent example of, as old Tricky Dick himself liked to call it, a ‘limited hang-out’, eh.**
But….
Here’s the real thing….
How could it have all been young Mr. Michael Sona’s fault, if all this stuff was being done systematically from a whole bunch of places all at the same time.
And, according to a story from Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor in the Ottawa Citizen, it was.
Being done systematically, I mean.
Here is Maher and McGregor’s lede, published late last night, about 36 hours after the limited h-o was set in motion by the fine upstanding folks over at Sun TeeVee:
An analysis of reports of mysterious harassing phone calls during the May 2011 election points to the existence of a systematic voter suppression campaign targeting Liberal voters in some tightly contested ridings.
Unlike the pre-recorded “robocalls” under investigation by Elections Canada, these calls came from live callers, likely working from a call centre.
A Postmedia News-Ottawa Citizen investigation based on interviews with dozens of campaign workers has identified 14 ridings – mostly closely fought electoral districts in southern Ontario – where electors reported receiving fake live calls.
Many received calls in the middle of the night from callers claiming they represented the local Liberal candidate…
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*Bizarrely enough, because of a post I wrote 8 months ago about Mr. Sona’s role, together, it would appear, with another young compatriot in causing a conflaguation at an advance poll at the U of Guelph just before the last election, that was, unbeknownst to me, way up on ‘teh’ Google page (not anymore!…which just demonstrates how the hangout has worked), a reporter actually contacted me asking me if I knew how to get in touch with the young (former) staffer…
**Kinda/sorta makes you wonder who is going to ‘write’ the report of that internal ConParty investigation, doesn’t it….I mean, I don’t think little Johnny Dean would do it now, would he?
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