This seems to be the source of it.
@oliviachow kicked out of polling station in #TorDan after abusing scrutineer privileges & telling voters to "not vote Liberal". #shame
— Michelle Johnston (@JohnstonMich) March 19, 2012
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U of T Student, History and Political Science; President, @uoftliberals; Fighting hard for Ontario; Views are my own
Of course it's not true. Olivia is a class act, not to mention waaaay too smart.
Just a lying smear from a junior good ole gal trying to play in the big leagues.
One would think the respective women's caucuses would be salivating at the chance to take on TheoCon dinosaurs like Woodworth, Vellacott, Del Mastro, Trost et al.
And one would be wrong.
Even the women of the Fucking Useless Opposition® are too busy fighting each other to fight for us.
And pundits wonder why Canadians are turned off politics.
So, it's back to Facebook, Twitter, and the blogs. It's up to us regular Canadians to protect our rights.
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Johnston appears to be be enamoured of CON CPC tactics and I told her so.
Don't drop the post for NDP, LPC and BQ women. They have more maturity and political savvy than that eager young idiot. I expect someone from the CONs will make Johnston an offer she won't refuse.
I love the "not vote Liberal" broken English bit. Living in BC, I'm becoming more and more alienated from the Liberals despite voting for Hedy Fry in last election. (BTW, love the Fucking Useless Opposition name. Think I'll adopt it.)
Feel free. The more the . . . more depressed.
Hey, how did you embed that tweet?
I access Twitter only from my computer using no whiz-bang app. So, 'open' the tweet, then 'details', then 'embed'.
Well, I'm confused. If this story actually happened, I would have thought the media would be alllll over this, doubly so when the Conservatives are desperate for any sniff of election tampering by any of the other parties. Anyone being ejected from a polling station, let alone Olivia Chow, would be news. What are the odds media wouldn't cover this? I'm not even seeing coverage on any Liblogs.
So, either Ms Campus completely misunderstood some scrutineering (which is a blood sport for the experts) or she has some 'splainin' to do.
What was the twitter response to her?
Initially, some of her pro-LPC followers re-tweeted her and pro-NDP folks like Dr Dawg told her outright she was a liar.
I replied with my own tweet, pointing out she was using CON tactics.
The immediacy of social media. The pummelling of foolishiness by e-shoes commences posthaste.
I had someone yesterday surprised that CEOs of companies likely aren't the ones actually writing their 'official' tweets, except *maybe* for the boilerplate 'deep' bonmots of wrist-sawing glurge wisdom. I pointed out unless carefully given forethought, 140 characters were more than enough to incite legal and stock exchange excitement. This concept had not heretofore occurred to said person. I suspect it hasn't occurred to a lot of people. Rather like showing off stolen goods on your Facebook page.
Does the campus girl's tweet count as libel? Will there be an apology forthcoming?
Apology was certainly called for. Dunno if one was or will be offered.
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