Back here I mentioned that the Manning Centre (and its money body) should have its not-for-profit status removed.
Here's why.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 05, 2012
OK... we'll wait for a bit on this one
David Akin has extricated a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail from John Fryer, an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria.
It's pretty damning stuff.
I know John Fryer. He's not taken to misrepresenting events such as this. In short, I'm inclined to believe him.
Am I accusing the Manning Centre of anything? No. Nothing yet.
Do I believe they would show people how to engage in voter suppression? Not yet, but since it is little more than a Conservative political boot camp, they wear the same level of trustworthiness as the Harperites they spawned, and the behaviour of the Harperites is the worst we have ever seen in this country.
We'll keep an eye on this one because if Fryer expands on this in any way which suggest that voter suppression was a part of either training or a workshop, well, they have nothing to explain. They will have lived up to all our expectations.
Hat tip to Steve in comments who also writes here.
It's pretty damning stuff.
I know John Fryer. He's not taken to misrepresenting events such as this. In short, I'm inclined to believe him.
Am I accusing the Manning Centre of anything? No. Nothing yet.
Do I believe they would show people how to engage in voter suppression? Not yet, but since it is little more than a Conservative political boot camp, they wear the same level of trustworthiness as the Harperites they spawned, and the behaviour of the Harperites is the worst we have ever seen in this country.
We'll keep an eye on this one because if Fryer expands on this in any way which suggest that voter suppression was a part of either training or a workshop, well, they have nothing to explain. They will have lived up to all our expectations.
Hat tip to Steve in comments who also writes here.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Kady liveblogs the Twitterdome
Kady O'Malley liveblogs an afternoon at the Manning Networking Conference and Exhibition 2009 to amusing effect.
Y'all remember the Manning Centre for Building Democracy for Cons, right?
On this the third day of workshops about the importance of successful social netwonking, the afternoon's event naturally featured Blogging Tory Stephen Taylor struggling with technical difficulties in a failed attempt to set up his PowerPoint presentation on how to Simplify the Message :
The other panelists were two Republicans from the McCain campaign who apparently shared their tips on the extraordinary success they managed to pull off for McCain.
And twittering. Lots and lots of twittering.
There was of course also a shooting gallery. . .
GO.
Cross-posted at Creekside
Y'all remember the Manning Centre for Building Democracy for Cons, right?
On this the third day of workshops about the importance of successful social netwonking, the afternoon's event naturally featured Blogging Tory Stephen Taylor struggling with technical difficulties in a failed attempt to set up his PowerPoint presentation on how to Simplify the Message :
"Ask your readers, 'Are you mad?' Assure them: 'We are too.' "Personally I never doubted it for a moment.
The other panelists were two Republicans from the McCain campaign who apparently shared their tips on the extraordinary success they managed to pull off for McCain.
And twittering. Lots and lots of twittering.
There was of course also a shooting gallery. . .
GO.
Cross-posted at Creekside
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