Robocalls: Mounties on the trail From today’s press report in The National Post about Michael Sona and statements by others in his Tory office: Dockstaeder also said Sona told her and a colleague that he paid in cash for a disposable phone and a VISA gift card, then obtained a
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: RoboCalls Scandal – It’s Still Alive
For those who had lost track of the Robocalls fraud perpetrated by the Harper Conservatives during the 2011 election, it hasn’t gone away. Harper has done an enormous amount of work to bury this case. Not only have they fought the allegations tooth and nail, they have hobbled the ability
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Russell discusses the inevitable collateral damage to our planet from the Cons’ war on science: Over the past 200 years, Canadians built on flood plains because “we thought we had relatively stable climate — the climate we experienced over the past century,”
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Wildrose deftly defuses robo-call crisis while federal Cons suffer Scotch verdict
Members of the Wildrose Party try out their new robo-calling technology, which should avoid future problems with the CRTC. Right-wing Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Wildrose Party Executive Committee President David Yager. You don’t have to agree with Alberta’s right-wing Wildrose Party to admire the skill
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Robocon: Guess who Sona will call as witnesses?
Michael Sona: Whom should I call? Sona, charged with being the man behind the voter suppression robocalls in Guelph in the suspect May 2011 election, has, through his lawyer, repeated that he is not the personwho set up the voter suppression calls. His lawyer has called for a public enquiry
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michael Sona and the RoboCon Scandal
Well, it's been a long time coming.And I have to admit I had almost given up hope that anybody would ever be charged in connection with the RoboCon Scandal.But finally somebody has picked up the ringing phone and answered my prayers. After 21 months of investigation, Elections Canada has charged a former Conservative campaign
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The first charges in the Robocon Scandal have been laid against Michael Sona. Most interesting in this, is that Sona’s lawyer has signalled they intend to shift the blame to the Conservative Party: Neither Mr. Sona or I will be making any public statements beyond the following statement at this
Continue readingValerie Burns: On Michael Sona
Officials from Elections Canada have laid an information in a Guelph court alleging one charge against Michael Sona, a former Conservative Party of Canada staffer and campaign executive. You guys know I don’t blog often. I greet most political issues with a sens of ennui, and most ‘debates’ frustrate
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Political Scapegoat of 2012: Michael Sona
Fraudulent phone calls and misremembered $21,000 cheques Sun News, the media wing of the Conservative Party of Canada, through its Parliament Hill Senior Correspondent Brian Lilley “scooped” everyone when they pinpointed the source of the fraudulent robocalls in the 2011 election: Michael Sona. Small problem with that scoop: it wasn’t
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Rick Salutin offers an important take on the U.S. election by pointing out that the Occupy movement and its focus on inequality laid the groundwork for Barack Obama’s re-election:The aftermath to the bailouts was the…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: RoboCon: Michael Sona – "This entire, massive scheme"
Michael Sona on CBCListen to the Power Panel comments on the Sona interview first – you can find it here.Then listen to his interview – it is here.And here is a press article by Lawernce Martin on his interview.This story is starting to unravel…
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Assorted content to end your week. – Winslow Wheeler compares the NDP’s F-35 hearings to politics on the opposite side of the U.S. border: The differences between Canadian politicians and members of Congress are utterly stunning. Unlike here, oversight in the Canadian Parliament is alive and well. In Canada, I
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your weekend. – Karl Nerenberg reported on Marc Mayrand’s Robocon testimony, featuring some much-needed discussion of what can be done to improve the Canada Elections Act to ensure fair elections rather than creating an incentive for electoral fraud: Mayrand fretted to the Committee that there are
Continue readingMichael Sona speaks out. UPDATED: It appears to be a hoax.
UPDATE: @saskboy advises this video is a fake. @PopeShakey provides the photo evidence: “I have a lot more dirt than this and it’s all going to come out now.” “By the way everybody, there are worse and more disturbing Robocalls to come.” H/T: @PopeShakey
Continue readingHelena Guergis lesson to Michael Sona: you can’t fight ‘em once they’ve thrown you under the bus
"Holy shit Helena, what do I do now?" "Shut up and eat it." You have to feel for Michael Sona. We don’t know if he’s guilty or not, much in the same way we still don’t really know the facts about Helena Guergis’ fall from Conservative grace. Stephen Harper gave
Continue readingHelena Guergis lesson to Michael Sona: you can’t fight ’em once they’ve thrown you under the bus
“Holy shit Helena, what do I do now?” “Shut up and eat it.” You have to feel for Michael Sona. We don’t know if he’s guilty or not, much in the same way we still don’t really know the facts about Helena Guergis’ fall from Conservative grace. Stephen Harper gave
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Conservatives: A Scapegoat For Every Occasion
I just finished reading a thoughtful piece by Michael Ignatief’s former chief speechwriter, Adam Goldenberg, suggesting that those Tory functionaries who are scapegoated for the government’s crimes often good on to their reward – reinstatement within the party hierarchy. A reposting of a reader’s comment following the article speaks volumes:
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: One Young Staffer is Not Enough
Conservative operative Michael Sona, is taking the fall for the voter suppression scandal and has resigned as a staffer. What the conservatives would like us to believe is that he acted alone. Give me a break. Sona, in the background during Ezra Levant’s sponsorship of Ann Coulter, is a product
Continue readingThe Global Express: UPDATE: Special Ballot in Guelph a Mistake Afterall
From my last report, the facts about the Special Ballot vote at the University of Guelph spoke for themselves. Why was all the blame being put on the Conservative Party after one of their members reportedly tried to stop a vote that shouldn’t have happened to begin with. Why isn’t
Continue readingThe Global Express: Special Ballot in Guelph a Mistake Afterall
It’s very easy to criticize someone for a wrong-doing. After all, its human nature to put others down in order to make ourselves look good. Finding the truth has become a secondary act. A Special Ballot was held at the University of Guelph on Wednesday where 241 votes were cast.
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