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Defend Louis Riel and send the Tories a message
March 18, 2007 - 9:31am
It works like a sports playoff - each day there are different one-on-on matches, then the winners compete, and so on and so on.
Who care about how it works lets send them a message. All day Monday Eastern time zone, one of the contests pits hero LOUIS RIEL against failed Tory hack KIM CAMPBELL.
Voting is free voting is anonymous voting doesn't make you register. You can vote for Riel from soon after midnite until 11:59 PM or 2359 Monday the 19 March EastERN time.
All you have to do is visit: http://www.timhudak.ca/great-dominion-dust
Voting in this poll is not heavy. It only take a few numbers to win the whole thing ... Let's start tomorrow by voting LOUIS RIEL (1844-1885) and hoist the tories on their own petard.
By 4 votes to 24 votes. This should be easy.
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Since it's the site of a Tory candiditate, the only thing that was surpising was that Douglas won. And then look at the results
3 votes for Douglas
2 votes for Crerar
Dividing the vote between a democratic socialist and an eventual Liberal.
me niether! there is no voting button as far as i can see.
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I *did* but when I go to a page it just tells me what the count is. I can't find an actual ballot.
now the idiot computer acting up [img]frown.gif" border="0[/img]
[ 18 March 2007: Message edited by: clandestiny ]
The Sunday votes went to the far right (Parson Manning + Harris) so maybe they figured how to vote more than 1x.
But Monday is a new contest and we can show them. RIEL is already ahead of Kim Campbell 2-0. We can win this thing if we have the numbers. There were no more than 70 farright voters (generosly assumed no duplicates) We can do far better than that.
http://www.timhudak.ca/great-dominion-dust
[ 18 March 2007: Message edited by: saigon ]
He has people who served in different centuries going up against each other, people in the different levels of political office against each other, people in the same party against each other...there just doesn't seem to be any logic in any of this that I can see.
Was I the only person who first read that as "Two Minutes Hate"?
Just to keep you folks updated, Louis Riel won his first round matchup and will meet Nellie McClung in the second round. Polls on the Riel-McClung pairing will be open for March 27 and 28. Be sure to cast your votes (www.timhudak.ca/great-dominion-dust) and check out the other pairings while you're at it.
Sincerely,
Tim Hudak, MPP
And since this is the aboriginal forum it should be noted that the law was used to sterilize a disproportinate number of aboriginal and metis women.
Ottawa XPress
I will be voting for Louis although I would rather vote for Gabriel.
We are getting closer but need your help. The last three rounds are key.
1. Because he won last night Riel is not active in the voting today and Friday
2. all day Saturday and Sunday ONTARIO time, until 1159 PM or 23h59, vote RIEL to win the Western region
3. then all day Monday and Tuesday, until 23h59 ONTario time, vote RIEL to win the Western/Quebec conference
4. the National final will be all day Wedensdya and Thursday until 23h59 Ontario time: vote LOUIS DAVID RIEL as greatest politician in Canada history
Heres the delicious irony. In the final RIEL is almost certain to be up against John A MacDonald; the DWEM or Dead White European Male who killed had him killed. [img]mad.gif" border="0[/img] [img]mad.gif" border="0[/img] [img]mad.gif" border="0[/img]
Avenge LOUISE RIEL. Avenge our ancestors. Avenge us. Vote him the greatest Canadian politician and send the Torys a message. http://www.timhudak.ca/great-dominion-dust
[ 05 April 2007: Message edited by: saigon ]
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[ 05 April 2007: Message edited by: saigon ]
Voting is open in Round 4. Here's the link to vote for LOUIS RIEL:
http://www.timhudak.ca/west-round-4-louis-riel-vs-allan-blakeney
The only mistake I made above is that voting in Round 4 closes Tuesday at 11:59 EASTERN time zone. Then Round 5 - semi final - lasts 4 days at least not 2.
So spread the word - http://www.timhudak.ca/west-round-4-louis-riel-vs-allan-blakeney
Just 3 rounds from making LOUIS RIEL the greatest Canadian politician EVER. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img] [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img] [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
Viva la revolucion!
It's the Libs who don't like his kind of thinking.
But I sure woulda booted out Sir John A in the first round. Its not appropriate for him to get this far.
Definitely Ed Broadbent deserved to win over John A. Mcdonald.
I'm not sure I would have picked Louis Riel over Tommy Douglas either. What were Louis Riel's politics like other than that he stood up against Canadian Imperialism in the west. Was he substantively on the left on other issues?
The rise of the ADQ...
So that's why you hung him. Trying to give him the push of martyrdom.
[ 09 April 2007: Message edited by: Banjo ]
Because it is a Tory site ... need more non-tories to vote ... especially when it comes to the showdown between Riel and MacDonald!