Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Are they fucking serious? Doug Finley?

Misleading robocalls in an Ontario town are an isolated case, says the man who ran the Conservative Party's 2006 and 2008 election campaignsDoug Finley, who advised the Conservatives on the 2011 election and sits as a Conservative senator, says the case of the strange calls has been blown out of proportion.

Unbelievable. Mind blowing.

The guy who was charged and plead guilty to illegal campaign advertising tactics in the 2006 campaign is not only labeled as "top Tory" in this CBC article, but is taking the front to comment very publicly on this most recent - and very serious instance of election fraud on the part of the CONs.

So we are supposed to accept blatant lies from a convicted election fraudster?  What in Cthulhu's infinite universe would make the CONs think any sane person will take Finley's words as truth?

"There hasn’t [been] so far, as far as I can determine, one single issue of voter suppression — not one" - Finley

Here's what an honest, non-partisan man who understands the scheme has to say:

Former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley said he has never encountered a vote suppression scheme on the scale of the one alleged in Guelph.


And Elections Canada agrees that the robo calls and live calls consist of voter suppression, as does the Sith Estate.

The Conservatives use a company called Responsive Marketing Group, Finley said, not Racknine, the call centre through which the Guelph robocalls were placed. RMG does live calls only, he said.

Blatant in your face bull-shit. (emphasis mine)


Guelph voters with call display reported seeing its number – 450-760-7746 – show up when they received the robo-calls misdirecting them to an exceptionally busy polling station.
In reality, the automated calls originated from RackNine in Alberta. Elections Canada alleges, however, that a tactic known as “spoofing” was used to instead make it seem as if they were coming from this 450-area code cellphone.

 "To me it would appear it’s very isolated. If Guelph is where it is, it’s where it is." - Finley

What can I say, Doug, except that you areeither incredibly stupid and oblivious to the biggest story of the year, or you are a lying sack of shit who is so narcissistic that you think everyone will just deny all evidence to the contrary and believe you because you are Doug Finley.


I guess any CONs like Michael Chong are unwilling to risk their credibility by attempting to defend this crime.  Maybe they are quietly grouping in secret, planning how they will carve out a real CPC party once the worst of the mouthpieces do themselves in and take the party down with them.

But Finley?  Really?

1 comment:

Beijing York said...

Brava 900ft!

I was at a b-day party tonight and discussed this with a old school progressive conservative friend. He is still holding on the we don't know all the fact line but was troubled. I told him that it was bigger than just a few rogue, eager campaign workers. I told him we had a colleague in the US that knows exactly how these campaigns can work and that I was convinced that this was a carefully orchestrated event managed by professionals they contracted. He did pause to think about it. Yay! One convert at a time.