Comments on: A Taste of the All-Candidates Meeting http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/01/12/a-taste-of-the-all-candidates-meeting/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:19:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/01/12/a-taste-of-the-all-candidates-meeting/#comment-7028 Anonymous Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:54:17 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/01/12/a-taste-of-the-all-candidates-meeting/#comment-7028 The Video should be live in a couple of minutes, you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/?v=egV0LVwelwc If you want to put it straight into your website, use this code (let's hope it isn't getting garbled): ------------- <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/egV0LVwelwc"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/egV0LVwelwc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> -------------- The Video should be live in a couple of minutes, you can find it here:

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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/01/12/a-taste-of-the-all-candidates-meeting/#comment-7027 Anonymous Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:21:43 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/01/12/a-taste-of-the-all-candidates-meeting/#comment-7027 Sam's first two attempts to defend the contributions were lame, "All my donations are transparent". But she caught my attention with the third strategy. [Paraphrasing] "There were only 5 people from the industry who bought tickets.... The tickets were available to anyone". <p> Quite frankly I've given donations to candidates (but not Bulte), and I liked the fact that I didn't have to go through a back ground check to do so. <p> Did these 5 people simply identify themselves using only their names? <p> It's a moot point for me. Bill C-60's broadly protects TPMs and she said she would not be beholden to the interests of the EFF... which last time I checked, represents what people want. <p> PS: I'm the guy in the blue shirt with the red cup. Thanks for taking my pic, and welcome back to the neighbourhood. Sam’s first two attempts to defend the contributions were lame, “All my donations are transparent”. But she caught my attention with the third strategy. [Paraphrasing] “There were only 5 people from the industry who bought tickets…. The tickets were available to anyone”.

Quite frankly I’ve given donations to candidates (but not Bulte), and I liked the fact that I didn’t have to go through a back ground check to do so.

Did these 5 people simply identify themselves using only their names?

It’s a moot point for me. Bill C-60’s broadly protects TPMs and she said she

would not be beholden to the interests of the EFF… which last time I checked, represents what people want.

PS: I’m the guy in the blue shirt with the red cup. Thanks for taking my pic, and welcome back to the neighbourhood.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/01/12/a-taste-of-the-all-candidates-meeting/#comment-7026 Anonymous Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:55:49 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/01/12/a-taste-of-the-all-candidates-meeting/#comment-7026 as found on livejournal. http://www.livejournal.com/community/toronto "The Liberal MP for Parkdale is having a fundraiser at the Drake Hotel for a group of music industry (etc.) leaders on January 19, next Thursday. The Drake is located at 1150 Queen St. W. There's been talk of holding some kind of protest and I'm all for it. Here's the gig: We all dress up as pirates and we mass in front of the Drake, neither obstructing the business of the establishment or the patrons. There are no intelligible responses beyond YAARRRRR, ARRRR, etc. 'cos we're making a visual statement, not great copy. Here's an article with more details. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060103/ELXN_bulte_fundraiser_060105/20060105?s_name=election2006&no_ads= If you're up for it, let me know. We have a week to get it together. You can respond here or e-mail me at malejested@pious.org." and, in unrelated news, kickass this sunday. respectfully, Dorian as found on livejournal. http://www.livejournal.com/community/toronto

“The Liberal MP for Parkdale is having a fundraiser at the Drake Hotel for a group of music industry (etc.) leaders on January 19, next Thursday. The Drake is located at 1150 Queen St. W.

There’s been talk of holding some kind of protest and I’m all for it.

Here’s the gig:

We all dress up as pirates and we mass in front of the Drake, neither obstructing the business of the establishment or the patrons. There are no intelligible responses beyond YAARRRRR, ARRRR, etc. ‘cos we’re making a visual statement, not great copy.

Here’s an article with more details.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060103/ELXN_bulte_fundraiser_060105/20060105?s_name=election2006&no_ads=

If you’re up for it, let me know. We have a week to get it together. You can respond here or e-mail me at malejested@pious.org.”

and, in unrelated news, kickass this sunday.

respectfully,

Dorian

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