Robo or Real Call.....Systematic is NOT Sonamatic

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Recapping....

Sun News pre-empts all the other media one day, and at the same time identifies/elevates the profile a staffer who's name is served up by a Conservative Party 'investigation' into its own alleged election irregularities .

And the next day said staffer, who has become a national scape-goat in less than 24 hrs, is either fired and/or resigns after a whole lot of his easiest to see tracks are first covered, including publicly available stuff on his Twitter feed, stuff I've screen-shot in the past (scroll down the page if you want to see a couple).*

Anyway, that sure would appear to be an excellent example of, as old Tricky Dick himself liked to call it, a 'limited hang-out', eh.**

But....

Here's the real thing....

How could it have all been young Mr. Michael Sona's fault, if all this stuff was being done systematically from a whole bunch of places all at the same time.

And, according to a story from Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor in the Ottawa Citizen, it was.

Being done systematically, I mean.

Here is Maher and McGregor's lede, published late last night, about 36 hours after the limited h-o was set in motion by the fine upstanding folks over at Sun TeeVee:

An analysis of reports of mysterious harassing phone calls during the May 2011 election points to the existence of a systematic voter suppression campaign targeting Liberal voters in some tightly contested ridings.

Unlike the pre-recorded "robocalls" under investigation by Elections Canada, these calls came from live callers, likely working from a call centre.

A Postmedia News-Ottawa Citizen investigation based on interviews with dozens of campaign workers has identified 14 ridings - mostly closely fought electoral districts in southern Ontario - where electors reported receiving fake live calls.

Many received calls in the middle of the night from callers claiming they represented the local Liberal candidate...

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*Bizarrely enough, because of a post I wrote 8 months ago about Mr. Sona's role, together, it would appear, with another young compatriot in causing a conflaguation at an advance poll at the U of Guelph just before the last election, that was, unbeknownst to me, way up on 'teh' Google page (not anymore!...which just demonstrates how well the hangout has worked, at least so far), a national political reporter actually contacted me asking me if I knew how to get in touch with the young (former) staffer...Alas, no....But if someone were to contact, say, oh, I dunno, how about the young compatriot?...

**Kinda/sorta makes you wonder who is going to 'write' the report of that internal ConParty investigation, doesn't it....I mean, I don't think little Johnny Dean would do it now, would he?

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