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CHIMO

(9,223 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:46 PM Oct 2012

Accused of robocalls, Michael Sona wants redemption

The Conservative staffer blamed in a leak to the media for fraudulent robocalls in the last federal election campaign says he didn't make the calls and doesn't know who did.

Michael Sona, who was in charge of communications for Guelph, Ont., Conservative candidate Marty Burke, told CBC News Network's Power & Politics that he is not Pierre Poutine, the pseudonym used to make the calls — and if he knew who was, he would have told Elections Canada.

The exclusive broadcast interview on Wednesday was a result of co-ordination between CBC News and Radio-Canada's Enquête.

"All the anonymous sources in the world can point the finger at me, but I'm not going to take responsibility for something that I'm not responsible for," Sona said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/10/31/pol-michael-sona-exclusive-interview-on-robocalls.html

In other words he didn't have authority to do it. So he is not saying he had authority to do it.


And so on...


How the Conservatives Stole Their Majority

A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada

"For the first time in Canadian political life, attack ads have been launched outside an election cycle. The Conservative "Not a Leader" tag line for Stephane Dion was drummed into voters' heads in January 2007 — mere weeks after Stephane Dion won the Liberal leadership. The increasing prominence of a presidential-style prime minister is steadily denigrating the traditions and institutions of Canadian democracy." - Elizabeth May (1)

http://harperelectionfraud.blogspot.ca/

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