on creeping canadians & databases

If a constituent writes his or her Member of Parliament, including address and phone number, with their concerns or questions, the information is entered into the Party's database? It produces profiles or ratings of individual constituents?

Garth Turner said that after door-knocking episodes (canvassing), it was back to the database, write everything. Jason Kenney: "They should be apologized."

Hat tip to Saskboy.

LIB: ManageElect08/Liberalist. CON: CIMS (Is sharing with municipalities or provincial parties bad?) "CIMS grew out of the Ontario PC party’s Trackright database." NDP: NDP Vote.

so i say hey hey hey what's going on

Every Thing We Do Promotes Savings.™ --- (luntz 101)
E.g. Kent: Blame media {for new furniture and storage costs}

the blot thickens. audio {fundraising}.

This is shocking. How many calls did this Responsive Marketing Group Inc.'s staffer or ones like him make, before he was 'let go'? Audio is on CBC, As It Happens, FTR: CONSERVATIVE FUNDRAISERS @16:30 Mar 8 2012.

According to a recording obtained by La Presse newspaper, an RMG employee who identified himself as Don Duke used aggressive pitches to solicit donations for the Conservatives. The date of a series of recorded calls is not clear, but Duke says he is calling from “supporter services on behalf of the Harper government in Ottawa.”

When Duke reaches a man who questions who Duke is, and how he has come to identify the man as a party supporter, Duke challenges in return: “How would I have your membership number?” he demands. “Am I going to hack into the computers and get your membership number and your donation schedule for the last 6, 7, back to the year 2000. Where the hell would I get that? . . . I’m telling you where I got that, I got it from the Conservative Party records, right here.”

Duke guffaws and tells the man the party intends to “bury” Ignatieff at the ballot box [treehugging, sandalwearing, birkenstockclad]. When he reaches another man who says he is no longer a Conservative supporter, Duke responds: “We don’t want to talk to socialists or separatists. . . . We had you down as a good Conservative. And if you’re not Harry, no, we don’t want to speak to you then. Thank you, Harry.”

In another call to a woman, Duke says, “Your husband makes decisions on the money coming in? When do you think I could reach him?” There is a pause in the recording during which it’s unclear if it’s the same call or a later one the same night, Duke challenges her: “I heard him, your husband is there! He’s talking in the background. Oh. My. God.”

NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel demanded why RMG was making the calls in the name of the government, and whether it was “because RMG and the Conservative Party — it’s all the same?” The NDP’s Libby Davies noted RMG merged with Xentel, describing it as having “similar dubious tactics.” She said in 2010, Xentel was fined $500,000 by the CRTC “for violating Canada’s do-not-call list.” source

Very bad, very sad. RMG is the Conservative party's telemarketing supplier. It and Campaign Research are sending little legal notices all over, but Front Porch Strategies, the "top U.S. Republican firm," is kinda quiet.

robo.gov - update

The Conservatives blamed robocalls on multiple parties, including:

Liberal Party (Dean Del Mastro, Mar5/12),
Elections Canada (Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott, Mar5/12),
a third party (Mike Duffy, Feb 27/12),
isolated incidents (Peter MacKay, Feb 27/12),
they do not know who was responsible (re Guelph, MP Dean Del Mastro, Mar 4/12).

MP Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) explains that the Conservative Party’s central campaign office in Ottawa is in charge of all Elections Canada voter lists and candidate voter identification lists, including the addition of voter telephone numbers, for all of the 308 Conservative candidate campaigns in federal elections. (Mar 6/12)

Conservatives refuse to make their phone lists public, and demand the Liberals do (they will), which sounds like Stratfor's strategy for scandals: "Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations." (Fred's Rule #2) And PM Harper refuses to explain why Conservative MPs rejected an Elections Canada request to verify campaign financial returns. (Mar 7/12)

In 2008: "Robocalls the night before the election reached thousands of NDP supporters to urge them to get out and vote for the non-existent candidate." (more: shady 3rd party organizations advertising for Lunn, Saanich-Gulf Islands)

hack: i heart ted morton. 9x.
(federal announcement, social
housing units. July 22, 2011)

But, war veterans are so... boring: sleepytime MP, Rob Anders, was asked to resign from the Commons veterans affairs committee. His apology for "hacks" and "Putins" was not accepted. (Why not just resign altogether, or fire the bum.)

In 2007: "the courts overturned Anders’s acclamation and ordered a new nomination meeting after the judge determined the Conservatives had violated their own rules." Who is Vitor Marciano anyway?

open letter to rob anders, mp

hiya! I support the CBC. I think it is a National Treasure! Oh, except for its nauseating, endless coverage of the royals last summer. Oh, and its nauseating, endless coverage of another invasion (Libya), yeah yeah Qaddafi had too much, knew too much. Still.

CBC Record Library Toronto, circa 1960.

I see 185 people responded to your poll. The CBC was funded over $1 billion by the Government of Canada last year alone. Should the CBC remain publicly funded? And 79% (143 people) said it should be de-funded. Alberta Outdoorsmen don't like it either. The LP, CD archives are being sold, so it must be in the air.

Too bad, your vote on Nelson Mandela, 2001. Oh well, what can ya do. You should set up a White History Month, since it matters so much, in Julys. It would (sorta) coincide with London 2012, Dominion Day War1812Stuff 2012, Stampede 2012. Talk it over with the elks, orange order, shriners, we're-#1christian guys and gals, the legion. It may help tone down the white priders, with the boots, like the folks who set the Filipino man on fire.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan
stands in the House of Commons but
Calgary-West MP Rob Anders appears to
be falling asleep during question period
last week. source

I noticed Donna Kennedy-Glans, y'know when the 23 of 30 member executive resigned a while ago, she just won the PC nomination in Calgary-Varsity. Okay, are you a pastor? I saw a video online: you at a Remembrance Day ceremony. I don't think John McCrae ever mentioned the Jesus thing and red poppies signifying the promise of resurrection, but yours is an interesting interpretation.

I think the poem is just about ordinary dead guys and poppies that blow, on fields of crosses.

open letter to tom flanagan

RU A CDN CITIZEN?

I THINK UR JIST A RIEL WANNABE WITH NO GABRIEL


nevermind. ("But once he decided to apply for citizenship, he volunteered to teach a summer class in the subject to force himself into a crash course.")
please disregard.

an bordello & dark rooms

Hi marx for playdough's repubic!
... bacchanalia & calgariallachie, ayatollah cardigan's fatwa (Arabic: فتوى‎).
You say (nothing), I say: fledermaus.

"Ptarmigan egretsWikiLeaks assASSination re-mark," Dec 1, 2010
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Nouriel 'Dr. Doom' Roubini: ‘Karl Marx Was Right’ (August 13, 2011)
Economist Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini, the New York University professor who four years ago accurately predicted the global financial crisis, said one of economist Karl Marx's critiques of capitalism is playing itself out in the current global financial crisis. source: International Business Times

The poets were expelled must be exiled excluded from the ideal republic that will have has no sensorys or emotions. - playdough
See also: Christian Hellenism.

And, the Conservative party's Constituent Information Management System (CIMS) files are not governed by PIPEDA regulations.

What the Tories know about you (Mar. 31, 2009):

“Zoey” is a central city inhabitant who eats organic food and is of no interest to them; ditto with “Marcus and Fiona,” a high-income urban couple with no children and professional jobs. But “Dougie” is a favourite, a tradesman in his 20s from a small town. And so is “Eunice,” 70, a widow, and “Steve [who owns his own business] and Heather” in their 40s with three children living in the suburbs.

The Conservatives have enlisted neighbourhood leaders – sports team coaches, community activists – to report information on voters to the party's data collectors and introduce potential supporters to party campaigners, a technique known by its acronym of FRAN: Friends, Relatives, Acquaintances and Neighbours. source