A metaphor for the 2008 campaign.
Photo credit Peter L.T. in Courtney, BC. “It’s not hard to find the signs, they’re all over. They must’ve had 20 people stenciling the night away!”
In the comments: “I wonder if they got a really tiny stencil for the ‘approved by the Official Agent for Geoff’ line at the bottom??”
Go Geoff go !
A slogan to go with the glum metaphor:
“We’re fiscally, morally and intellectually bankrupt and politically irrelevant, Canada’s natural ruling party?”
I would honestly not even bother. That’s just embrassing!
They don’t know anyone with a silk screen and a computer to print a pattern?
Embrassing? So is my typing I guess 😉
LMAO! I wonder if they got a really tiny stencil for the “approved by the Official Agent for Geoff) line at the bottom??
Are these candidates for the Office of Prime Minister? Oh thats right, Canada’s leaders are not elected but appointed by the Queen so these signs must be for the the dog catcher position.
Well, here’s hoping the voters in that riding have their priorities right. John Duncan is one of the good ones, responds quickly to information requests from a voter.
Once when I had a question about Native rights in B.C., instead of the usual form letter, he sent me a copy of the Act, about 300 pages, and said all the information I needed was in there.
I’ve found every Reform/Conservative MP I’ve contacted, very good at responding to my queries.
That looks more like something the greens would have come up with or even the maryjane party.
I can just see it now in “Geoff’s” campaign office (mom/dads basement) he’s got a couple chimpanzees trained to make his signs. He throws them a couple bananas every few hours…….lol
Geoff’s World! Party On! Excellent!
If elected, do you think Geoff will try to change the elections financing Act.
They got Catherine Bell to run for them? That woman is seriously hot, NCIS is a great show. I wonder how she finds the time?
I mean JAG.
dmorris,
I have the same kind of MP here, unfortunately he runs for the dippers! Three times I have emailed Peter Stoffer about one thing or another and three times he phoned me within 48 hours to discuss it. Not explain it but discuss it.
Really too bad, because the CPC has fielded some pretty decent opponents in the last couple of elections, but Stoffer is one of the few MPs that gets elected with a true majority each time. Here’s hoping Duncan gets the same response.
Catherine Bell was in JAG.
Note to Geoff: next time, use a ruler.
How about a guy wearing a sandwich board.
In the last campaign amongst all the signs was one for “Birch Firewood” — seemed like an honest chap; damned near voted for him.
a little off topic:
But go to ctv.ca they are showing a picture of Dion on the CanadaAM set this moring awaiting the interview.
Behind dion on a screen is the 5 day forcast, gloomy.
I thought all these signs were Real Estate Agents.
Is there something going on I don’t know about?
mid island mike
What’s with the “O”‘s ?
Coattails of giants Geoof?
Geoff needs all these reminders to vote?
Ahh, it is the same story in West Vancouver. Blair Wilson had homemade “Vote Blair” signs for the first 2 weeks of the election…alas they were missing that important little blurb at the bottom required of all election signs!
http://tinyurl.com/4dd6ar
At least Catherine Bell gets to put her name on a sign at all. From what I have seen, Taliban Jack Layton appears to be running in every riding in Alberta.
saw some good graffiti on an NDP sigh on the weekend.
New NDP motto:
“We’re not happy, until your’re not happy”
Perfect tag line for socialism.
Different Catherine Bell guys…although I assume you were only joking anyway.
The NDP graffitist stole that from Air Canada!
well now that you mention it, it is the perfect Air Canada slogan.
Strangely, no one is explaining the Libs are out of cash. The political funding reform passed by Harper bans corporate donations to political parties. It did not change much to parties supported largely by individuals, like the CPC or the NPD, but it meant death to the Libs.
In my riding of St. Paul’s I have seen several Jack Layton signs, including a large one on a grassy hill right beside Carolyn Bennett’s constituency office. Anyone who lives in the riding and hasn’t seen it, go check it out! It isn’t a sign for NDP candidate Anita Agrawal, these are Jack Layton signs, the ones that are run in his own riding. As well, there’s a Layton sign along Mount Pleasant Rd., on cemetery property, which I believe is owned and run by the city gov’t… Is it even legal for the NDP to be doing any of these things?
Manny, wasn’t the political funding reform you mention not passed by Jean Crouton to screw his successor Paul Martin’s chances?
As a Comox Valley resident, I have seen these signs reminding Geoff to vote liberal. He must be pretty dense if he needs all those reminders. Or maybe he’s just undecided.
I can agree with dmorris, Duncan is one of the good ones, unfortunately, the NDP and the Greens have a lot of followers here.
Times must be tough now for the Lieberals (aka Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves), no longer being able to tap taxpayers’ money from the Treasury as their very own cash cow.
It’s obviously necessitated Lieberal operating economies. Do you t’ink it’s ezee, establishing spending priorities for a racketeer-influenced-corrupt-organization?
TJ; yes, they were…otherwise I’D be working on her campaign!!! 😉
http://www.catherinebellonline.com/main.html
Geoff who?
Because as we all know, lawn signs, are the true mark of a righteous political party…
“Because as we all know, lawn signs, are the true mark of a righteous political party…”
Well, no. The only way I know how to judge a “righteous political party” is by their actions and message.
The action/message I see here is “I lost a bet”. Don’t worry, he’ll still get his participant ribbon.
In keeping with the LPC Green Shift driven platform, Geoff subliminally reminds us to consume less energy:
GE off.
Hehe.
Anyone whose vote is influenced by a lawn sign doesn’t even deserve the right to vote. Much like the so-called “undecided” voters. If you don’t know and understand the issues by now, you probably never will.
Alienated, you are indeed correct that manny is wrong.
The campaign finance reform that killed the liberals was from ol cruton himself in 2003. His legacy to a party that had the nerve to want Paul Martin as its leader.
‘Vote for Pedro’. He’s got a cool moustache.
A sign by a cemetary for Layton. I thought it was only liberals who had the dead vote for them.
I think they mispelt “Goof”
If it’s the same manny, when has he ever been right?
Alienated, you are indeed correct that manny is wrong.
The campaign finance reform that killed the liberals was from ol cruton himself in 2003. His legacy to a party that had the nerve to want Paul Martin as its leader.
Posted by: AtlanticJim at September 29, 2008 2:39 PM
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You are correct, Chretien passed the first political financing reforms dramatically restricting corporate and individual donations.
But, in the July/2006 Federal Accountability Act (FAA), the Tories took it a step further. Amongst other reforms, the FAA completely banned corporate and union political contributions. Additionally the FAA reduced individual contribution limits from $5000 to $1000 per year.
The FAA took effect January 1, 2007.
Info here: http://www.faa-lfi.gc.ca/index-eng.asp
With their donation base low, and their share of popular vote set to drop based on current polling (thus reducing their portion of government funded contributions), the financial situation of the federal Libs is dire, indeed. Looks good on ’em.
“At least Catherine Bell gets to put her name on a sign at all. From what I have seen, Taliban Jack Layton appears to be running in every riding in Alberta.” by: Schwarze Tulpe
Schwartz; Jacko is NOT running in Edmonton East it seems – The Energizer Dickhead: Ray Martin seems to have removed the ‘Jack Layton Team’ thingee from all of his signs. I wonder if it has something to do with Premature E-Jack wanting to shut down the Oil Sands?
CRB
“At least Catherine Bell gets to put her name on a sign at all. From what I have seen, Taliban Jack Layton appears to be running in every riding in Alberta.” by: Schwarze Tulpe
Schwartz; Jacko is NOT running in Edmonton East it seems – The Energizer Dickhead: Ray Martin seems to have removed the ‘Jack Layton Team’ thingee from all of his signs. I wonder if it has something to do with Premature E-Jack wanting to shut down the Oil Sands?
CRB
And here in Nanaimo, the Green candidate has the chutzpah to nail his little green signs directly on to the wood supports of the signs of the Conservative candidate.
Nice that the Greens want to save trees and all, but….
Vote Geoff Update:
At 6:35 PM today I spotted a nice shiny plastic Liberal sign with Geoff’s name on it. Its quite evident that the Libs read SDA and were shamed into erecting the new signs asking Geoff to vote for them.
Film at eleven.
Back to you Kate.
I read Geoffs profile in the paper. He is a student attending classes in Vancouver, and it’s a 5 hour trip home.
He probably won’t be attending many all candidates meetings!
Qui Bono? The libs get to say they have a candidate, Geoff can put on his resume that he ran in an election.
Last election went NDP by 1% . John Duncan was MP previously.
It’s the swing riding, so close that final count was the last to be settled.
There is also a Green candidate, but the real battle will be between Conservative & NDP.
When Harper was here last week, he had security, but the real threat is that the floor would collapse because the invite – only crowd was overflow.
God Bless good civil engineers.
I’ve seen the signs around town. I thought Geoff was running for student council president.
Free hot dogs at the big dance!
A five hour trip home? As a candidate for a major party, he should be able hop on Pacific Coastal and be home in 35 minutes. Its obvious that he’s not getting any help from his party. Probably has to pay Dion for the priviledge of representing the libs out of own pocket.
Geoff is a decent young man, I don’t agree with his party, but he deserves better from Dion.