Liberal Senators Attempt to Buy “Voter” Tracking Software With Taxpayers’ Dollars
A recent letter from Liberal Senate Caucus (LSC) representative Grant Mitchell to the Board of Internal Economy revels that the LSC has been attempting to buy Voter Activation Network (VAN) software at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer to the tune of $60,000. This software – allegedly used by the Liberal Party of Canada, several US Democratic Senators and the Obama Campaign – is meant for explicitly partisan and electoral purposes.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by Senator Mitchell outlines plans for the software to “link to the voter file to maintain data integrity.” The Elections Act clearly prohibits such a use by a Senator and a Senate Caucus. The voter list is only to be used for Members “communicating with his or her electors” and “soliciting contributions for the registered party and recruiting party members” (S. 110 (1) and (2)); neither of which is allowed by a Senator.
So unelected party bagmen need to track the voters who elected them? I’ve heard stranger things coming from both houses of parliament in the last while, but this smells of the mildew under the red carpet.
June 16, 2009
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6 Responses
Wow. Just wow!!!! Why no headlines in the Liberal media on this?????
Can you link this all over- it is just Liberal entitlement at work and Grant Mitchell??? Alberta’s shame.
where oh where is the Liberal MSM on this ? listening to old tapes of private Raitt conversations ?
truly disgusting
Yeah, because 60K is more important than dying cancer patients and a Minister who, in private (and therefore more revealing and truthful) conversations is shown not to take her job seriously.
Give it up. Your “Liberal MSM” bleating wears thin. Where was the Liberal MSM when they did the Dion restarts; when Duffy slaughtered the libs at every chance (for which he was richly paid), or when the policy idea of a carbon tax (love it or hate it – I personally hate it) wasn’t even given a second throught until the Libs lost, and instead was debated in terms of “weak strategy”.
Do a tally. The media is 2/3 conservative in Canada. This isn’t the USA.
entitled to our “entitlements” are we ?
Michael, you are delusional..2/3 conservative?
Let’s try this
CBC Liberal biased
CTV LB
Toronto Star LB (as part of their ‘manifesto’
any newspaper owned by Tor star group, largest newspaper chain in Canada) etc. etc. the list in Canada is endless.
I will see your Duffy with Jane Taber,Craig Oliver, Susan Delacourt (star reporter and wife of Lib insider) Christina Legwand, Krista Erickson (reporter who fed questions to an almost incomprehensible Pablo Rodriguez) etc ad nauseum.
Need I keep listing the oft biased (and overtly biased!) MSM members who are against the Conservatives?
http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/
and
http://www.bourque.com/
picked up the story.
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