On previous episodes of Dean Del Mastro: Knower of Everything, Dean didn’t trust the survey results in a Peterborough newspaper poll, so he commissioned his own robo-push poll, in an effort to “protect democracy”. Then, last week Dean argued the Liberals used a US call centre and the Tories never
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Montreal Simon: The Robo-Call Cons: When the Stupidity Burns
Holy Bossa Nostra. I didn’t think that Dean Del Mastro could be more of a Con buffoon than he already was. But I guess I should have known better. Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, stood repeatedly in House of Commons Monday to answer questions from
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The RoboCon Scandal: Now Can We Call Them Klowns?
Well I can only imagine the scene in the Con War Room tonight. The hum of shredders, the mumbled prayers, the muffled screams. The sight of Vic Toews dressed in a bloody butcher’s apron. As the hunt continues for those accused of the ultimate Con crime. No, not stealing an
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tory Story Changes Again
Now they’re as confused as anyone about the Guelph robocalls. And in one sense Dean Del Mastro is the perfect advocate for this position; he does indeed seem very confused. PS. It was the Tories that told everyone that Mike Sona was suspect number one. Just to be clear on
Continue reading14 Cons conned voters from US Front Porch Strategies
Looks like Stephen Harper and his puppet, the hapless Dean Del Mastro, have been caught in yet another lie. Fourteen Conservatives have been found to have used an Ohio telemarketer, the amusingly-named Front Porch Strategies (emphasis mine). The prime minister and his parliamentary secretary, Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro, claimed
Continue readingkirbycairo: The Noxious, Odorous, Slime that is Del Mastro…
Have you ever seen such a smarmy, creepy, two-faced, hypocritical, dishonest, schmuck as this guy??? He made a big show in the House of Commons to say that a Liberal MP had used and American firm to make election calls, not saying that there was anything dishonest or misleading in the
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Damage Control
It remains to be seen just how involved the Conservative Party was in Robocon, but it certainly doesn’t help that they can’t keep their story straight. It was all Michael Sona, it was rogue third parties, it was the Liberals, the Tories had “absolutely, definitely” nothing to do with it…yet
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Humbling of Dean Del Mastro
Well there he was in the House of Commons today, claiming that Joe Volpe paid an American company to make robocalls. Voters were upset because they were being contacted and asked to support Mr Volpe or take a lawn sign, and the calls were based in North Dakota. What we’ve
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Attention Dean Del Mastro: Where Are You Getting Your Information?
This accusation: Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, pointed out however that Mr. Volpe’s own riding spent money on voter-support call firms such as Prime Contact. It has offices in North Dakota. OK… This is the firm that Joe Volpe and other Liberal candidates
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Big Boiled Wolf
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
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Dean del Mastro’s PG-Rated Committee Hearing
Mama Mia. I see Dean Del Mastro wants to grill the creator of Vikileaks before a Commons committee. “This is just the latest in a long history of shady Liberal practices that harm our democracy,” Del Maestro said. “These nasty, dirty Internet tricks were deeply personal and fall short of
Continue readingImpolitical: Memo to Dean Del Mastro
Mr. Del Mastro has a flawed conception of who the “political masters” are in this country. Not he and his pals. We are. Telling use of terminology. (h/t friend in Peterborough)
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Welcome to the Con Horror Show
Oh no. I don’t want to frighten you eh? But has anybody noticed that the Con regime is turning into a real horror show? Not only have they started calling anybody who disagrees with them a traitor. But there was the rabid wingnut Rob Anders the other day, claiming that
Continue readingImpolitical: CBC takes the high road
Today the CBC turned over documents to the Commons ethics committee “under protest”: In a speech before the National Press Club Foundation, CBC President Hubert Lacroix confirmed what NDP House Leader Joe Comartin had already revealed to the House of C…
Continue readingImpolitical: The Conservatives’ strained relationship with the rule of law continues
The parliamentary law clerk has written a strong opinion on the legality of the Conservative push at the ethics committee to compel CBC to provide documents to the committee while the CBC is in the midst of a court dispute over those documents with the…
Continue readingImpolitical: They’re not impressed in Peterborough
“No B for behaved” for Dean Del Mastro from the local Peterborough paper in the wake of his attack on Justin Trudeau’s religious bona fides. They’re embarrassed: When we endorsed Dean Del Mastro in an editorial last spring, we did so with the explicit …
Continue readingIrony alert. Contempt party accuses CBC of contempt.
Well if anyone should know contempt, it would be a Conservative. Oh and you can forget that whole legal matter of the appeals process. That’s just for Conservatives.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Since when did the Tories worry about contempt of parliament?
CBC in contempt of Parliament if it doesn’t produce documents Access Committee requests: Del Mastro
Continue readingFive of Five: How to Make Rob Anders Look Sane
In addition to being a part-time pollster, Dean Del Mastro is also an amateur bishop.Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, said on Facebook last month that it was “outrageous” the Catholic school board in Peterboroug…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Dean Del Mastro – A History of a Huffin’ and a Puffin’
If you don’t know who Dean Del Mastro is, you should – he’s the perfect example of why Stephen Harper keeps the iron fist he does on the Conservative caucus.First off, let’s start with the most recent infraction – questioning the faith of Papineau Libe…
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