John Weston’s comapaign<\/a> called me. \u00a0 Weston is running for the Conservatives here in West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast – Sea to Sky Country. \u00a0 So I’ll admit upfront that I’m prejudiced here – I haven’t ever voted Conservative, and that isn’t likely to change in this election. \u00a0 I did however find the experience of communicating with Mr. Weston’s campaign a little funny.<\/p>\nI got called around 4pm to ask if I\\d support Weston in this election. \u00a0 I usually at least ask some questions – and in the last election I had a long conversation with the Conservative candidate on my pet federal issue – Aboriginal rights and titie. \u00a0 This time I felt like just cutting the crap and I told the caller I wouldn’t be supporting Weston at all.<\/p>\n
I figured that was the end of it, but it wasn’t. \u00a0 An hour later I got a call back from a call centre asking if I supported Weston. \u00a0 Intrigued. I took the bait and asked the caller why I should support John Weston. \u00a0 She didn’t really know. \u00a0 SHe pointed me to his website, which I have also done and said I should look there for more information. \u00a0 Then I asked her why she liked Weston. \u00a0 She said that she couldn’t really answer that question, that she just worked at a call centre and that was that.<\/p>\n
So the guy who wants my vote can’t even find people who support him to call me? \u00a0 He has to hire a call centre with people who don’t seem to care one way or another to do his ground work for him? \u00a0 This is a little strange and a little sad. \u00a0 One of the things I enjoy about election campaigns is the rabid support that campaign staff and volunteers exude for their cadidate. \u00a0 It makes for fun sport and often really great conversation. \u00a0 In this case, the whol thing defleated before my eyes. \u00a0 Will John Weston’s campaign call centre continue to call me over and over with dispassionate invitations to visit his website, or am I going to get to talk to someone about the Conservatives change in policy following the residential schools apology?<\/p>\n
To be continued I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So it seems that we are having a federal election here in Canada. I’m a little interested in democracy and as I\\ve had two phone calls today, I thought I might as well keep some notes here about my experience with the local candidates. Today John Weston’s comapaign called me. \u00a0 Weston is running for the Conservatives here in West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast – Sea to Sky Country. \u00a0 So I’ll admit upfront that I’m prejudiced here – I haven’t ever voted Conservative, and that isn’t likely to change in this election. \u00a0 I did however find the experience …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,42],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conservatives","tag-john-weston"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-ps","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}