I just looooove the new Conservative grassroots communication tool for the ConBots. So helpful. I sent letters to the editors of all my local papers (see screenshot above)- right through their website. They did it all for me! And all I have to do is enter my postal code to figure out which radio stations to call and when.
They had talking points for me to use but I didn't really like them so I just substituted my own.
Those cunning Conservatives. How are we ever going to beat them when they keep coming up with all these great ideas?
UPDATE!!!
Other bloggers are posting on this as well. Turns out Marie Eve over at Dawg's Blog did something like this during the election and Paul has reddit'd it to get the word out. Go vote it up!
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I wonder how many senators Harper will appoint this week.
I just sent mine. Thank you, CPC!
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Oh-oh-oh! Me too!
Done.
Don't stop at just one letter to the editor, I sent 7. They make it really easy.
blogueurcitoyen posted about that website with hastily and badly written directives in a French riddled with mistakes.
I was looking it over when I also saw your post at ProgBlogs.
Your suggestion to subvert the Cons' process in support of the Coalition's cause - our cause - is brilliant. Grand merci!!
The success will come when one of the letters using this tool will be published. tee hee.
You've been reddit'd.
Is this going to get me stuck on a Con mailing list though? I made the mistake of filling in one comments section on one of the mailouts from my local Con MP (Richardson) and it took forever to get them to stop mailing me invites to Con meetings and requests for funds.
Erin, thanks, and yap, I sent some letters too! Thanks Conservative, it a very wee way, it's their way if "helping the little people" make democracy work!
Great idea and find Erin.
I was worried about being on a Conservative mailing list too but then I thought, hey, if they want to waste their money mailing me stuff that is never going to change my mind about them or their policies, that's awesome.
And emails, they are easy to ignore or delete or unsubscribe to. But I'm going to be reading them to keep up-to-date on the latest ConBot messaging.
Hi Erin,
LOVED your post. It was such a good idea.
Hope you don't mind, but I linked to you on both my blog and reddit.
I don't know if reddit's going to send too much traffic to you though because for some reason the post's getting downvoted almost as much as it's getting upvoted.
Ah well, I tried.
Give my co-blogger all the credit, please, for the post at our place. Marie-Eve rocks!
I've sent a bunch, thanks Erin.
Brilliant!
I just used the conservative site as well. Copy and paste the clips, edit and submit could not be easier!
You do know that if you employ this black propaganda to support the coalition, then the government will be perfectly lawful in using the same tactics to "persuade" the population?
This has made my evening. Good thinking! All the newspapers in Halifax are now aware of my opinions.
Oh, I did notice that they could use a bit of updating too. They have the Halifax Daily News listed, yet that paper's been out of business for over a year now...
Open your eyes. The NDP put BC, and Saskatchewan's economies in the toilet. And Bob Ray almost ruined Ontario (again as NDP). Smiling Jack Layton knows he will never obtain any real power through a legitimate election so he brokers a deal with the devil in an attempt to gain power through some unholy union. The Liberals and NDP must not be very organized if they have to use the tools of the Conservatives to get their messge out.
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