Bumped for update: You can listen to the audio here.
From the comments;
I’m in Alberta where an election was called this morning, and I just sat through the most offensive robocall “poll” you can imagine.
As soon as I pressed “2” to indicate that I was planning to vote Wildrose, the questions changed to a personal attack: “Press 1 if you are opposed to proper health care, Press 2 if you think students don’t deserve to go to kindergarten, Press 3 if you think that people should be allowed to drive drunk up to the legal limit without consequence, etc., etc.
If anyone else has received calls like this, let me know.
Oh…the call came from 403 774 1623.
Posted by: syncrodox at March 27, 2012 11:53 AM
Thanks! The answering machine there accepts incoming messages, so I left the message that I’m voting WildRose!! LOL!
Yes, yes it would WalterF. BTW, howz things shaping up down there this year? Gonna be able to seed it all?
…I likely will not vote.
Posted by: Paul at March 27, 2012 11:53 AM
Thanks Paul – that makes my vote count a little more.
No calls here–except from a collecting agency from Scarborough, On. She claims I owe them ten grand, she gives me a bank account from TD–yet I`ve never walked into a BMO bank. Ì phone Sask-Tel, I have the phone number, they say: Hang up!! Thanks guys–crown corps rule!!
Opps–sorry–that should read BMO not TD. I am a TD customer.
ReL Alberta robocalls.
If it came from a Liberal, it`s automatically a “robot” call!!
…I likely will not vote.
~Paul
As if!
I’m pretty sure you’re only here at a conservative political blog to discourage voter participation, while fully intending to vote for some Leftist party.
(likely the Progressive Conservatives)
Leftists like you don’t believe in democracy, per se.
No tactic is too dirty to use, including undemining democracy, to ensure your people retain power.
That’s why Red Ed Stelmach called a snap election last time before Wildrose could get organized and field candidates in all the ridings.
What was the voter turnout which selected Alison Redford for PC leader as the second choice of voters on the second ballot?
Was it 25-30%?
I don’t recall.
Anyhow, I’m sure if Redford were the praying type she’d be praying for that sort of voter turnout.
What she and her ilk don’t seem to realize is that so few people turned out because they knew that the PCs were just selecting a new Captain for the PC Titanic.
sync, collectivists find individual thinkers to be thorns in their sides. You weren’t meant to be part of the herd. 🙂
Oz: I’ve always considered the SDA forum as a round-table for discussion of issues that concern Canadians and open to differing opinions – and not a traditional rectangular table where people sit on opposite sides and giving each other the stink-eye when differences of opinion inevitably occur. The NOTA option I mentioned would be a non-confidence vote by the people for all serving and aspiring politicians – putting them on notice that they need to wake up. If it’s OK in parliament why isn’t it OK for us?
Want to hurt her where it hurts, hold mock police trials on the side of the road, she has no problem giving the police judicial powers sans due process let the public see what’s in their future under Mizz Tyrant socialist twit.
chutz, thanks, I’ve pounded it into my sons heads that being a sheeple is not an option.
“Progressive” Conservatives my eye.
As soon as I hear the word “progressive”, the hair stands up on the back of my neck.
Progressive now equates to unsustainable spending and the scary ideology of big government
intrusion.
Paul, you aren’t at any table.
You’re a cynic and an agnostic, remember?
Now why don’t you go ‘not vote’ somewhere else, m’kay?
Further to what the Wildrose Alliance is up against, here’s a Reuters article on the start of the election campaign.
Notice Mr. Haggett’s use of the term “hard-right” in the first paragraph. Undoubtedly if he were working down in Florida he’d be referring to “White Hispanics”.
The Media Party: So predictable, so lame.
Allison Redford is starting to look more and more like “Dalton McQuinty in drag” every day.
Paul
Normally you would be right. At this time however kates rule applies “I do not care about the high road I just want to win.”
The game is on so pick a side there is no middle for 27 days.
EBD, the whole white hispanic thing got me to thinking…does this make Barry a white black? #confused
Sorry, should have addressed that to Robert W.
I got about 4 of these roughly a month or so ago. Every time, I selected that I was voting for the WRA.
Then I hung up.
I cannot wait until REDford is punted out of the Leg.
Paul, by not voting at all, the only message the politicians can take away is that either you are satisfied with the status quo, or don’t care enough to bother, which gives them a license to do as they please.
Even a “none of the above” option on the ballot can do no more than communicate that you are dissatisfied with the options on offer. But it can’t tell them why you are dissatisfied.
Possibly a write-in option is the answer. But not voting is not a way to make a statement, unless you really don’t care. In which case, please don’t vote.
What I tried to say was that all politics is mostly theatre – With very few exceptions many of the actors have no idea of what their script really means. It’s relevant only to their real goals which are power and influence. Why else would so many politicians cross the floor?
And why do all political parties have a “whip?”
I know what you are saying Paul.
You’re saying they’re all the same, so why bother.
Why do you bother?
Really, why are you missing an opportunity to shut up if you don’t have a dog in the fight?
I think you a progressive troll.
I think you’re here to soften the vote turnout which will turn the Redford regime out of power.
gordinkneehill gives you the benefit of the doubt, but neither you nor any Leftist deserves it because everything y’all do or say is in bad faith.
And why do all political parties have a “whip?”
~Paul
If you don’t know why political parties have a whip you aren’t equipped to participate in these discussions.
Read a book on politics and come back in a year or 5.
Oh! And ignorance does not equal cynicism no matter how cool you think striking a pose is, and buckwheat, you are ignorant.
No, I didn’t get that or any other robocall, as I always hang up the phone before an option of pressing any number is given…
Paul
Taken in that context you do make a point. That being…FIRE THE PRICKS REGULARLY!
Ralph was a friggin liberal but we let it slide because we liked him…it’s been all downhill ever since…
syncrodox at 4:00 PM
Problem is, Paul doesn’t care to replace them, says they’re “all the same”.
Paul may be an Occupy symp who wants chaos because it’s cynical and cool, thinks the only difference between shit and sunshine is the speed at which they travel.
Yes, Ralph was a liberal.
He was a liberal who was a fiscal conservative who made Alberta DEBT FREE.
Now the PCs are social engineers who are spending Alberta into debt like commies.
Oz…agreed.
Synchro:
Peter lougheed was a red Tory. An epically big spender. But the pcp was the most conservative option at the time that had a chance of winning. That has been the case for forty one years.
Until now.
I agree with that also Gord. Lougheed lost my respect when he didn’t stare down Pee-air…
2600 7th ave NE, T2A 2L8. is regal auto auctions it has been there for years and years.
FREE…I knew I knew that address. Very interesting. Seedier and seedier…
And why do all political parties have a “whip?”
Tribalism.
Would you be upset if Danielle Smith had fathered a black baby out of wedlock?
I think our pasty-faced conservative imposter is going to learn a hard lesson – when she gets turfed – the liberals that used her will throw her away too…
Would you be upset if Danielle Smith had fathered a black baby out of wedlock?
Possibly, that would mean she’s actually a man.
dance…dancetotheradio “Would you be upset if Danielle Smith had fathered a black baby out of wedlock?”
How could she have a black baby? She has an English name.
I woud be amazed if Danielle had FATHERED a black baby out of wedlock.
Troll quality is declining.
Tell us more dancy…
Paul:
I’m not going to cast aspersions on your character or beliefs, but I do agree with those above who point out that NOT voting at all does not send the message to politicians that you’re not happy with the choices available; it simply sends the message that you’re one of the people who are too lazy, too disconnected, or too disinterested to participate. And the politicians read that as you’re satisfied with whatever happens. Having read your posts, I don’t think that describes you at all.
So, please, find the least objectionable party, and vote for them. At least that way, you help move the bar slightly in your preferred direction. Not voting is not going to improve your chances of finding a party you wholly support, ever.
fiddle,
The ‘fathered a black baby out of wedlock’ thing is a reference to a push poll that Dubya’s campaign used to squash McCain in the 2000 primary.
It used to bother me that Dubya (Rove) had used it but I’m not so sure anymore.
In 2000, the media gatekeepers were still in charge and McCain’s reputation as a bipartisan who could reach across the aisle was their narrative.
McCain’s sorry performance in the 2008 election and onwards makes me think we were duped.
Thankfully, we have the new media and we had Breitbart to pull back the curtain.
I’ve always been a conservative, but my perception of the way things are has changed a lot since that black baby push poll pissed me off.
For reference,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll
Dancy…you do realize that Kate was Breitbart before Breitbart was Breitbart?
and if you agree that MLA’s accepting cash for unperformed services isn’t an act of fraud…
Press 5 and prove you’re mentally challenged.
How did McCain’s black baby get in this post.
The answer is yes in fact if the person a couple of stories down were running with the same intent as ms smith I would vote for him her also.
The intent being to crush the crush the leftist.
My wife received one of these calls a couple of days ago – she hung up part way through.
syncro,
We could argue who was the better Beatle.
(I have been listening to Righteous Indignation, all eight hours of it, daily for the past four weeks.)
I wasn’t really asking the question.
I was wondering, ironically, if the progressive party of Alberta thinks we can’t see past the ‘do you still beat your wife?’ line of questioning they used in that push poll robocall.
Dancy…I stand corrected.
It’s Justin Trudeau!
I knew the Liberal B@stards had no shame, but to get the shiny pony involved in Alberta politics by making more Robo-Calls is way over the top!
Paul, what KevinB said. Please!