The Saskatchewan election has turned ugly in Meewasin:
We are spending hours and hours replacing signs that are being knocked down or destroyed … it’s an epidemic. Even lawn signs … on private property are being destroying, prompting some people to request they be permenantly removed out of fear … and many SaskParty supporters tell us they won’t put up signs because of past damage to property … like fences.
Good thing they didn’t have NDP signs.
If the tolerant left is destroying property just over a sign I would hate to think of what those knuckle-dragging hatemongering rightwinger might be doing.
Oh right. I am typing, how bout you guys?
Leftist thuggery … what else is new.
It is what defines them.
How could any civilized person vote for such monkeys?
This is nothing new to those of us living in big cities. Walk around downtown Toronto, and look at the newspaper boxes. Pretty much every Toronto sun box is guaranteed to be vandalized, while I’ve yet to see any Toronto Star boxes damaged in any way. I’m sure the explanation goes something like this: the nice, civilized, understanding liberals get so upset at those eeeevil conservatives that they just HAVE to destroy things and make a nuisance of themselves. Meanwhile the conservatives refrain from doing any damage in order to make the liberals look bad. It’s a conspiracy, I tells ya!
Sounds like a job for “Klans-person”. Just the ticket to get the lefties out in force against those eeeeeeeevil cons and their reeeeeeeligious backers. Just have to refine cross burning or sign burning to a more PC method so that their heads won’t truly explode. Can’t have any harm come to anyone or offend them, can we. Double standard, double dip, double cross, double dare ya seems to be the mantra of these thugs (oops, sorry, not PC enuff) called “progresssssssives”. Snakes more like it. Ssssssssssss. SssNDP, Sssssliberals, sbloc-heads.Yeah, I had a couple of whissssssskeys this am, already!
I’m not up on Sask law, but I presume that destroying opposition signs is seriously illegal.
I recommend people replace signs in a repeatedly vandalized area, and then film them. An arrest of would make for interesting publicity.
The Sask Party signs in my area of Regina (Wascana Riding) have been removed as well. I guess what we are seeing is the difference between builders and free loaders. Cornered rats can be vicious so watch out.
Alex, you’ve never seen any TorStar boxes damaged? is it not enough to be stuffed with actual Toronto Star newspapers? I say that’s damaged enough for me, I tells ya!
joke.
I’m still thinking of that day off we’re not going to get to celebrate PET’s birthday.
and back to the post…
I think it’s a good idea to document the damage with a foto, and forward it to the electoral officals and various media outlets, as Kate knows, simply exposing this sort of thing can do wonders for a campaign.
I have been volunteering with my local candidate for the Sask Party and I have heard so many stories from supporters who are scared to put up a lawn sign for fear of vandalism, or worse. Many people say: “We won’t put up a sign again, not after what happened last time, but we do support the Sask Party.”
It is sad that the neo socialists are able to scare people away from exercising their right to freedom of speech, they must be proud.
I saw a bunch of Roger Parent signs destroyed. I think the best thing to do is put a sign back up right away.
Soup, I agree. Don’t let them get the upper hand, not even for a moment.
Just keep putting the signs back up. damn those NDPers and there vandalism.
I saw all those signs knocked over when I was driveing around Saskatoon the other day.
the NDP have lost all hope now that they have turned to vandalism.
Intimidation works in the unions, not surprising that Dipper supporters (union types) should believe it works in democracy.
Weird that they would smash signs of free speech but condemn fighting for freedom (Afghanistan), I guess any time the Dippers can support Marxist-style action they will.
Ditto to Trents comments at 3:59. I too have heard fears of repercussion from SaskParty supporters as I canvass my constituency. What’s most notable is that as the Saskparty signs are being vandalized the NDP signs are left untouched. Local hoods with political bias? I think not! More like local dippers with a hoodlum streak. I have also heard lots about intimidation at the workplace. I’m really shocked at the lengths the NDP and it’s supporters will go to, and frankly I hope those who are victimized by this bullying will join the democratic army and vote them out on Nov 7.
Don’t know about out your way but down east every time we try to have a union meeting we are always being attacked by crowds of suits. Scum I say.
It’s probably just kids running around and knocking down signs…if the braintrust at the Saskparty think it’s being organized by the NDP, then they should prove it.
lberia, in my riding in Ontario, Conservative signs are continually knocked down, too…with all the others left virtually untouched.
Yeah, just kids.
“Psst, hey kid, there’s $50 for you if you knock down all those blue signs tonight, eh?”
Seeing as how I drive Wanuskewin/Warman Road/3rd Avenue/2nd Avenue on my way to work every morning, I’m staying in the right lane until election day.
I, too, noticed the signs were down on Saturday morning as my son and I were out for a morning drive and a trip to Timmies. I also noticed Mr. Parent’s campaign supporters out hammering those same signs back into the ground this afternoon as we came home from Pet Expo.
And if Iberia thinks its kids who do this, yeah right. Its more along the lines of some radical thinking lefties who can’t stand the thought of having to go out and get a real job after the election.
What commies playing unfairly? They don’t know any other game. I say hang around with some baseball bats and pitbulls and bring me some commie ass!
Knocking down signs is illegal…get the cops to set up a sting and catch the vandals. Until you have proof, it could be anybody, including the Saskparty doing it to themselves as a form of negative campaigning against the NDP.
Okay Laverti, cause sign vandalism was such a front-line issue that the SP’s have to setup the Dippers. C’mon already.
Iberia, when I was a kid in the 1967 election I was paid $1 for every Liberal sign I brought back to the NDP campaign head quarters. My buds and I made about $200 that year. Makes me wonder what the budget for sign repatriation is now.
In calgary the Reform/Alliance had many signs defaced with swastika grafitti and/or destroyed.
Couldn’t have been the skinheads ya think?
Oh, of course, personal anecdotes from Andrew (aka Old sign wrecker) are indisputable proof…
My parents have there sign knocked down almost every day. Real, it is nice to see how extremely desperate the NDP have become.
Because after all, everyone knows lawn signs are what determine election campaigns.
What a dumb post…
we were driving cross country from Wakaw to St.Brieux today when we spotted a SaskParty sign smashed where the candidate’s face was supposed to be…..my wife said it was not vandalism for fun, it was the NDP targetting the signs…there is a difference….she advised me that the right does not vandalise like that and that was a socialist way of doing things…how sad this province will be portrayed if Sask votes in another communist govt,,,I truly hope we do not or people will be moving outward again…I hope we have all had enough of this communist govt
If you have proof that the NDP was responsible for taking down the signs then show it. Maybe it was a Karwacki supporter or somebody unattached to any campaign?
In Meewasin the SaskCons are a third run party. This fight is between Karwacki and the Quennell, Parent will bring up the rear.
Isn’t there some kind of paint or something that would stick to anyone doing this. Need to get out there with vidoe phones and post the damage on u-tube. Someone driving up and down the street, or road should be able to catch them . Get out the word surveilance cameras on in place. In AB it is against the law to destroy signs, and a heavy fine. One guy was so open about it that he left the signs in the back of his pick up while he had coffee. Pics of same appeared in the local paper, with the license plate in plain view. Everyone knew who it was, and he has not lived it down to this day. His party lost a safe riding.
Knight of Iron Man: You don’t get it, do you? Sometimes I have to give my head a shake … a lot … thanks for the moment of levity.
Sean S.: Quite a few Liberal signs were trashed as well … but not nearly as many as SaskParty signs. We are running at 100+ trashed for the Parent campaign alone and many are damaged in places that teens never … and mean never, walk by at 3:00 am. Strangely though, virtually all NDP signs remain undamaged … now if you can, come up with a reasonable explanation for this fact, but please don’t insult us with some lame easy to deconstruct blow-off.
“It’s probably just kids running around and knocking down signs…if the braintrust at the Saskparty think it’s being organized by the NDP, then they should prove it.”
I don’t know that it is organized by the NDP, it just shows me how lefty’s think. I echo the other comment, union people use intimidation and they think it works in politics.
Not really on topic, but anyone else pickup Dominquez’s comment during the Sask/Hamilton game? He stated he is out for the season, especially given Canada’s vaulted medicare system. I just wish I’d had my VCR on.
All that we are ever told is how jealous Americans are of our medicare (I mean just ask Micheal Moore). Jealous until one of them has to use it.
Go Riders.
Ed the Hun
Poor Socialists are so angry that their polling shows them not just losing but losing badly that they’re displacing their anger on the opponent’s election signs.
Ok guys, your anecdotal observations are lovely, but show me some kind of evidence or statistical data that suggests this kind of thing isn’t occurring in a relatively equal fashion both ways. There are douchebags of all types and colours. If you are one of those suggesting that this is behaviour that is exclusive to NDP supporters because there is some sort of psychological predisposition to tearing down election signs within the left, then you are illustrating a severe lack of intelligence and just how much of an ideologue you’ve become.
The NDP’ers project their values on everyone else. They know that they themselves are scumbag rats who embrace thuggery and violence to further their political aims, they assume that everyone else thinks and acts the same way. The only thing that keeps them in check is fear of being punished, they see nothing morally wrong with stamping out free debate, which election signs are a part of.
Their complete lack of anything but a lust for power is also shown when they scare little old ladies with stories about the Sask Party closing old folks homes. How low of a piece of shit do they have to be before they resort to lying to little old ladies to and scaring them so they can’t sleep at night just to keep their grubby snouts in the public trough?
Same with greed, they know that they themselves would steal candy from baby and abuse any power they might have and they assume that everyone is the same way.
There is no one greedier than a socialist, they feel you should work hard so they can tax your ass off and live off your sweat and toil. In their world there is nothing morally wrong with that.
The NDP would steal Jesus off the cross if he wasn’t nailed there, they think you’d do the same.
Animal Farm perfectly describes the NDP in Saskatchewan.
The NDP have become a bunch of moral degenerates, sadly they think that you and I are as well. I feel sorry for them.
steve: ” … show me some kind of evidence or statistical data …”
Your joking, right? Can’t really think of a stat that the world needs less. Perhaps you could join the anecdotal crowd and post pictures of vandalized NDP signs … I’ve never seen one.
Well Steve, the NDP has always championed the irresponsible and provided them with ready made excuses for their behavior. Although you have a point, I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss the possibility that at the very least the NDP ideology is at the root of this sort of behavior.
Mary T, who was that guy in Alberta. Or at least, which party did he vandalize and which did he support?
“Strangely though, virtually all NDP signs remain undamaged … now if you can, come up with a reasonable explanation for this fact,”
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Only the stupid or the angry zealot still believe in NDP ideology. How’s that?
Nothing beats a cheap and easy smear, especially when you’re desperate.
Tampering with the signs is a federal crime last time I checked – publicize that and demonstrate that those parties are those of criminals (as if we did not know)
Last provincial election my brother was still a NDP supporter. He walked over to the local NDP campaign office with his dog to get a sign; his dog pissed everywhere in the office. When he got home and put up his sign, his dog ripped it up two days later. True story.
My brother, a hard core trade union life time supporter of the NDP, is now supporting the Sask Party, as are many of his trade union friends. The NDP are very desperate this election.
don’t rely on the cops until you have proof. put some signs up in a well lit area and park a video camera on a tripod in someones house or apartment window. hell if it is an old camera hide it in some bushes somewhere. have the campaign buy a few cheapies if you can.
Looks like the desperation of a government that is in its death throws. It is obvious that the perps are NDP supporters. I think it is only right that Calvert go public and demand that the sign vandalism stop right now. Ya, I know, two chances of that happening, fat and none.
Trent, at least your brother had the good sense to realize that when it comes to politics his dog was smarter than he was. Most leftards can’t seem to come to that realization.
It wasn’t his dog that made him change, that is just a funny story, it was the treatment he has received from the socialist government.
The people taking down the SP signs are most likely going to be Liberals. Ask yourself who has the most to lose in Saskatoon-Meewasin. It would be a big loss for Frank Quenell to go down in defeat but it could potentially ruin the Liberal party if their own leader is defeated for a third time. The Liberals know that if there is a major push for change people are going to the SP so they have to do something to get people who are running away from the NDP into their camp and part of that plan it seems is to get rid of the idea of voting SP anyway possible.
It’s a good thing Conservatives wouldn’t dare stoop to such tactics, eh?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2005/12/20/elxn-signs-vandalism.html
Of course, all the Conservatives on SDA will find any and every excuse to justify the tactics of the Cons in this story…
“Until you have proof, it could be anybody, including the Saskparty doing it to themselves as a form of negative campaigning against the NDP.”
Bull thats like the folk who think theres as big a chance of a european grandma blowing up a plane as a muslim in his 20’s.
Cyril McFayte Alliance had 10,000 damage done in 1 night they didn’t do it because they came out of a bar and knocked it over when the dollar values get high enough it’s systematic and yes it is the other party. Doing it to yourself is just loony, I’ve never been near a campaign where that would happen.
Never underestimate the pressure that the Dippers put on Union members. In the late seventies B.C. had a provincial election. I worked for the Dept of Hywys as a lowly flag girl at that time. There were signs all over the lunchroom saying ‘If the NDP win the election, we will get a raise; if the Social Credit win the election we will be put on strike’ VOTE NDP! I put up a Vote Social Credit sign and when asked about it I said I supported the Social Credit Party. Next day I got some snubs but I went to work as usual; that day the superintendent of a big local mining company was driving a big truckload of pipes down the highway and I stopped him. I was on the downhill side of his truck when the restraining ties on his load of pipes broke. All the pipes rolled off the truck and would have crushed me if I had not jumped on the first pipe, walked it to the end of the road and dived behind it when it lodged against a tree. (I did this but I cannot take credit for it since I did not have time to think – I thank God and my Guardian Angel); all the rest of the pipes jumped over the lodged pipe and me. The superintendent was more worried about his job than he was about me when I heard him gnashing his teeth at the scene; I confronted him about his attitude and he was really very sorry (he said). I think he was more relieved than anything else but the union bigshots wanted me to sue him! I wasn’t hurt so I saw no grounds or reason for a lawsuit! The superintendent and the mining company had sent me flowers (on my request) and a card.
With two strikes against me I went to work on the following Mon and was told that I was ‘laid off’ (I was a seasonal worker) so I packed up my car and moved to Calgary where I got a job delivering mail for the oil cos. (Canada Post was on strike). I voted Social Credit before I left.
The Social Credit won that election. My dad phoned our MLA and told him that I had been ‘laid off’ because I voted for him. The MLA phoned the dept of hyws and told them something – they tracked me down and offered me a FULL time job and a raise and in the dept of my choosing! Being young and foolish and arrogant I told them I didn’t want their job! I have kicked myself for that rash stupidity.
My point: if you rock the Dipper boat, they throw you out. Some union people have families and mortgages so they cannot afford to blatantly support anyone but forLorne; in case the Dippers win! Fortunately for Union types, Conservatives do not fire all Dippers when they vocally exercise their franchise. As far as I know we still have secret ballots on election day.
Perry, where does it say in the article that the people who destroyed the signs were Conservative workers? Just says two guys were charged. Were they identified at a later date as Conservative campaign workers?