Note - The picture on the upper left corner is the same individual.
I would like you to take a good hard look at this material and tell me beyond a shadow of doubt that this is not TOTAL EXPLOITATION OF THIS MAN'S CONDITION and tell me WITH absolute conviction on a MORAL level as we as human beings are to be taught that all life should and will be respected at ALL LEVELS.
This man not only appears on the first brochure of TOP QUALITY as working and living in the Saint John Harbour Riding and looking prim and proud BUT no story of abuse was attached to this Brochure roughly 10 days ago.
Then he is used and ((((I MEAN USED)))) & ((((EXPLOITED)))) on a second pamphlet to advertise a coffee and donut event on November 5th and still NO STORY on his abuses.
Now for the third and FINAL time today November 12th Two days before a by-election of approximately 11,000 citizens of the CITY of Saint John N.B. And according to THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF NEW BRUNSWICK (WHICH THE VERY PARTY NAME NOW SHAMES ME TO THE VERY CORE TO SAY) Has said is worth at least 50 MILLION DOLLARS
And could also make or break their POLITICAL CARREERS has only NOW chosen to put out a pamphlet to tell us of this man’s abuses and his peril life.
These pamphlets were taped to park benches in the uptown King Sq. as well as taped to the garbage can tops, also in the uptown King Sq, to ensure the regular down on their luck persons that are in the park most of the day would see them.
These pamphlets were also put all through the Brunswick Square Mall as well as Market Sq. and from one end of Brunswick square to the other end of Market Sq. these were taped to garbage cans to the seats on all three levels of the first mall Bruns.Sq. To any surface such as escalators from top to bottom in between the up one and the down one they were on every ledge that would hold them throughout the catwalks that connect the malls.
They also appeared in South End variety stores as well as on the ground around most of the south end area Mostly the lower end of South End.
I have yet to see if they were put all around over north end or Westside as of yet.
But the message is VERY CLEAR that the Conservative Party made sure and went MORE than out of their way to see that these pamphlets made it to the poor residents with an unbelievable amount of effort.
To me the evidence presents itself in a ladder effect that led up to TOTAL EXPLOITATION of this individual for personal gain by the New Brunswick Conservative Party.
With less than two years of their term to go.
To come out this close to a by-election and make an announcement with an obvious intent to put this man’s story out to the poor ((which are considered to be a majority of the undecided votes that could make or break this by-election between the Conservatives and the Liberals)) which didn’t seem to be an important enough story to tell in the last two weeks of knowing .
And also to go on and tell the poor that they will change the laws to protect boarders and roomers from abusive landlords of rooming houses which at this time there is NOT ONE PIECE of legislation written in their favor to this very day that would help them in a court of law within the Province of New Brunswick without them paying for a lawyer only to lose their case is an unacceptable statement to make at all.
During a tight by-election as small as this riding is, with no more than 11,000 citizens. And as the rentals man’s office told myself and Charlie in the City of Fredericton when we went with concerns of the rooming house the Charlie himself lived in and I quote "Don’t get mad at me!" This is not within my power to do anything about. If you want to be mad at someone it should be the government of New Brunswick because they don’t seem to want to do anything to help this issue.
I Timothy Smith of Saint John New Brunswick will indeed be going to the City of Fredericton on Tuesday Morning November 15th 2005 to Officially put in a complaint to the Human Rights Commission. I am shocked to the very core that any governing party that represents the values, dignity, Honor, and respect of each and EVERYONE of it’s citizens could feel this by-election was important enough to them to totally exploit this man for personal political gain and most definitely should be held responsible for such a travesty.
I would like you to PLEASE show your feelings toward what this Government has done to this Province’s Dignity toward the respect of it Citizens.
And also this has absolutely nothing to do with what party I am for or against as when this story came together before my eyes I most certainly did not think of anything else but the horror of what I was witness to, then to do with any other party in this by-election.
I have been going around to many many people to get their reaction on the evidence presented before them and I have NOT had one person disagree with my observation of the facts as I see them on this issue.
Which included members of the working poor, to a working family and homeowner that was for the party in question until this travesty, and to a small business owner and home owner within this very riding.
46 comments:
Look at some glaring examples of abuse:
1) Single-mother was demonstrating in front of Centennial Building in tents along with few supporters. She was evicted from public housing and she was told her children were too noisy. Lord got the mother evicted from Centennial Building grounds. Does this man care for abuse?
2) Homeless youth were demonstrating again in tents on Legislature's grounds. Lord got them evicted saying they were just occupying space and were not logical. Is that not abuse? Does this man care for abuse?
3)A very disabled young man was evicted from Southampton House and his father demonstrated in front of the Legislature. Did Lord go there and said hello or inquire whether he could help. Does Lord care abuse? NO and NO. NADA. He is a big liar. He cannot be trusted. He does not care.
I can go on. The examples are simply too many.
Many people around the province feel abused. Seniors, vets, disabled, weak, poor, vulnerable because of Lord government's policies, actions and inactions. Lord does not understand the meaning of the word abuse. Give him the right message on Monday. We do not want him anymore. We cannot take it anymore.
# posted by Anonymous : 7:48 PM
They have had that Perkins guy in the paper just about every day sporting a Vote for Hooten sign!
No mention of the abuse though!
# posted by Anonymous : 8:41 PM
Obviously a last ditch effort! Is this ploy to 'expose' or 'exploit'?? The latter is typical of Hooton & Lord as they know their campaign isn't looking so good. I'm usually a PC supporter but not on this election. It has left a very bad taste in my mouth.
It'll be a sad reflection if Saint Johner's vote for the Lord government.
Is this New Brunswick? Is it happening here? This has gone too far. When Bernard Lord won his leadership of P.C. party by giving free beer to university of Moncton students it was unethical but it did not literally hurt people. What Lord has done since has hurt hundreds and thousands of people of this province. Is that acceptable in a democratic society? Is that acceptable in 21st century? Absolutely not. Lord is so completely blinded by ambition that fellow humans are not humans to him they are just a means to get ahead. If in that process these humans get hurt or die, as through the affliction of VLTs, it does not matter to Lord. Latest exploitation of this man and abuse flyers attest to that. Lord and his operatives have gone too far. Should this man continue to occupy the office of Premier? If we as a society and responsible citizens care then absolutely not. I hope his candidate loses this byelection and I hope this man is out of office for the sake of New Brunswick and for the sake of our society.
Exploitation is what elections are about, they certainly aren't pretty and if you thought that the PC's were just going to roll over on the poverty issue, well, you shouldn't be surprised. Only monday will tell if it's gone 'horribly wrong' though. Politics is ABOUT exploitation, and people should remember that it isn't just Bernard Lord calling the shots, its not a monarchy. These decisions are made by the whole party, by typically by the election advisors. Poverty was simply becoming too big an issue, thanks mostly to a poor riding and perhaps even charles blog.
Initially they thought they could simply have her show up and mention that if you don't vote for her, you don't have a representative in the actual government. They thought it would be a cakewalk with that reasoning, but either their door to door canvassing is opening their eyes or else they've been watching various blogs and call in shows and finding out that they may be in deep doo doo.
However, I don't see how, if this fellow is being used willfully, it is anything other than it seems-a party using every angle to get votes. In fact, while I understand that anything that may support the tories is not good for the election (and if it is a small riding then I'm assuming that most of the people know the reality anyway), it IS good for the tenants rights issue. It will be EXTREMELY hard to ignore this once the election is over, in fact, Saint John is the next place we should hit with the tenants rights posters.
Whether they can be believed or not, most MLA's I've contacted have said that they were unaware that roomers and boarders have no rights under the Residential Tenants Act. We don't know how many actually see Charles Blog, so have no way of knowing whether its true or not. We have one MLA who has said they are interested in bringing in a Private Members Bill if the government does nothing, so now is the time to make sure ALL the MLA's hear from voters to support the bill.
I do agree it's pretty slimy, but of course the liberals had plenty of time while in power to change the Residential Tenants Act as well and it didn't happen-so neither of the parties really can claim to speak for these people.
"Exploitation is what elections are about.."
8:45 AM that is pretty horrendous statement that to exploit people to win elections is ok. That is very sad sad statement.
You can sell programs and policies and what you are going to do for you constituents but exploiting is ok according to you. Incredible.
Now all the more reason to vote down the exploiters. Hooton does not deserve our votes neither does Bernard Lrod.
That's the reality of politics, if it were different, people would have a far higher respect for politicians, as it is they rank lower than lawyers and car salesmen.
As far as exploitation goes, the same can be said about the liberals, they are hardly a party that has existed for the benefit of the poor. McKenna certainly wasn't recognizing tenants rights either. Tenants rights is a non-partisan issue, NEITHER party has any real credibility. Obviously the conservatives have more to answer for NOW, because they are in power-they very easily could have done something long ago.
But if you've got a lousy system where the poor have no representation, there's no point in painting it up to look wonderful, it is what it is.
Charles; November 14th is going to be one sweet day. Bernie Lord is
going to get his butt kicked in a big way. Hooten could very well come in third.
Wouldn't that be icing on the cake!
With Ed running between 53% to 60%
in the poll he is going to kick ass big time.
I almost feel like restarting the
Recall Bernie Lord web site.
Oh the feeling is good.
9:47 AM. That is a very sad commentary on our current day society. Lord has extensively contributed to exploitation by the current and many other past tactics. It does not have to be that way. We do not have to put up with it. Time for change. Good start will be to throw away the yoke that Lord and government has saddled us with. Let us do it.
Chuck you're a retard. This mans name is Russel, HE wanted the handouts made. HE is a lord supporter.
What's the matter Charles, you afraid there might actually be people out there that HAVE troubles??
I can tell you one thing, this guy doesn't blog all day and worry about what Lord is doing, he has direct access.
Keep up the suck Charles.
hmmmmm????? I never wrote anything in this blog but I support Tim Smith views 100%!!!!
It is looks Lord supporters are hurting. Instead of admitting their blunders they always go for an attack and that is going to be their downfall including Lord.
Lord government has been hurting people too long. Time to have their own medicine.
Lord government is no government. Two major government departments are without Ministers. Dale Graham has been baby sitting the Department of Environment and Local Government for quite a while now. Family and Community Services is being baby sat by Joan MacAlpine who can hardly look after her own department of Tourism. But in all of this who is baby sitting Bernard Lord. Man needs lot of growing up to do and must not be left unattended.
It doesn't matter about the Lord government, Michelle Hooton is not Bernard Lord, so she can very well claim to be interested in tenant's rights and want to lobby on their behalf, so there really isn't any problem with her claiming to want to look out for people like Perkins. I think it's actually a good thing, and would rather see that than have them completely ignore the poverty issue completely.
It will be nice for US if those of St. John harbour 'send a message', but remember that these people have real problems that can ONLY be addressed by a person in the Lord government. People know full well that there is only two years to the next election, so may vote accordingly.
This is just in case the vote goes in Lords favour, it certainly doesn't mean that that there's widespread support for him, it just means people cast their vote expeditiously. I think Tim would be far better off using his time in a manner which would have some resultes, however, by making a complaint it keeps the spotlight on tenants rights, so more power to him.
"It will be nice for US if those of St. John harbour 'send a message', but remember that these people have real problems that can ONLY be addressed by a person in the Lord government."
1:37 PM what kind of government is that. In other words if their candidate does not get elected then they will do nothing about problems faced by Saint John Harbour. Does this government only work for those ridings where it has its own MLA. That is a very immoral government to say the least. All the more reason that such a government must be ousted and a strong message must be sent from Saint John Harbour.
Tim please go ahead full force. We must put an end to this kind of immoral and unethical practices and campaigning. We cannot take it anymore.
If Doherty is elected then since he is not in power then he can't enact legislation, simply as that. Lord has shown how petty he can be, so if the PC's lose the riding, then they may suffer the consequences-and the people there are well aware of that. The above poster explains pretty well what kind of system we have, I couldn't have said it much better except that democracy is NOT a spectator sport.
Look next door in Maine where they have citizens initiatives. When they wanted to put an LNG terminal in, every town along the coast had a vote on it. In Maine there are referenda every year which the PEOPLE force onto the government from everything to clear cutting to budget issues. THATS democracy-not voting in somebody else to make all decisions for us.
It didn't get there by accident, it happened because a hundred years ago a small group of people FOUGHT to bring in legislation that would let citizens have citizens initiatives, they weren't content to simply vote in different representatives who they could HOPE would do a better job than the last guy. The brought that power TO THE PEOPLE. By no means is it perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than our 'elected dictators'. Even people I completely disagree with like Spinks I'd rather have voting on issues than having Lord, Mckenna, Martin, or ANYONE dictate.
If Lord government has extremely serious problems then Hooton in no way can be a saviour. Only government can enect legislation is no reason to vote Hooton. We do not need any more legislation we need action and there will be more action if Hooton is not elected.
Exellent Observation.
Even if this man has volenteered to let them do this flyer using his name,it is still moraly and ethicly wrong.
The organizers are the ones who are
altimitly responsible for knowing where the line is drawn on ethics and morals.
Having the advantage of a good education and understanding of taking advantage of a specific situation of an individual within the social area in which they live.
To strategicly lead up to and using a specific issue such as roomers and boarders rights toward an abusive situation knowing full well there is no way of doing anything about it should never have been put forward at this time in a by-election.
Especially after using this gentleman's face in their campaign pamphlets on more than one occasion.
Also knowing this would take a very long time to even implement as a bill not counting rules or laws to inforce the act of protection toward such a statement.
Which could have been brought forth in much better taste immedietly after the by-election whether this government wins or loses.
But instead have chosen to use a blind eye approach to cover the obvious discuss of using this man to their party's advantage for a hopeful lift in the polls which show them down by 21%.
That makes absolutely NO sense. As we've noted on the tenants rights, all that is required is for ONE LINE to be removed from the Residential Tenants Act. One member has mentioned putting in a private members bill, but the simple reality is that you NEED the conservatives behind it since they have the majority of the seats. If only the liberals pick it up and even if Doherty wins, then nothing will happen, the conservatives will block the vote.
You can talk about morality all you want, but it comes down to strategy, people don't like politicians talking about issues, and if the conservatives had ignored the issue then there's more likelihood it will trounced. If Hooton IS serious about including roomers and boarders, then obviously that's one more vote for the legislation. However, she hasn't really said THAT, she just says that she wants to look out for all the Perkins, so people are quite right to be suspicious.
Personally, if I lived in the riding and could pin her down to actually saying she'd vote for the legislation I'd vote for her.
But this is why we maintain that giving people equal rights is NOT a partisan issue. Regardless of who wins, they will be on our list to support the legislation to grant roomers and boarders equal rights. The government will be targeted more so than the opposition, since only THEY have the power to bring it in-if they don't, it simply won't get in.
Bernard Lord has been screwing this province for last 6 years now. Mostly out of incompetence. Now he has managed to fatally shoot himself in the foot. To use a person like that for campaign purposes is both unethical and immoral. Whole last 6 years are riddled by these kinds of practices by Lord government. He thought he was immune to any kind of accountability and that attitude is catching up with him. He is done and finished.
Sorry Hooton only says she cares. We have ask her to revisit the Deal and she says it's a done deal; she also said only the Mayor and Council can revisit the deal..So Michelle stay here and complete this job of revisiting the LNG tax deal and get those tax dollars and that will help everyone. Promises are fine but forget the wealthy friends and help those who can't make ends meet. To get a vote you lowered yourself but allowing disadvantaged people to be used after permitting flyers be posted where the very poor no where to turn to get a vote. You won't worry after you win or don't win. There is no class in how you ran your compaign.
Give Lord an eye opener and give HOOTON THE BOOTON.
Vote Dr. Doherty; don't split votes, this one chance so don't chance it.
After making the commitment for rights of the roomers and boarders the Government has no choice but do something about it. If it does not then it will be final nail in its coffin. If it wins the seat then it will do the same as it did on VLTs. They will be just looking at it. With 27/28 seats in the legislature it has no choice but to do something about it beyond looking at it. Giving another seat to Lord will only add to his arrogance & we will be doomed for at least two more years.
You don't always have to be in power to get things done. Lord will have to prove he has character and if we keep at him and he doesn't do anything then that will be the end his career.
If we give Lord a seat it will back to business as usual and he will go back to Fredericton and say "Saint Johner's love us Mr. Speaker". We know that we are not satisfied; put it this way
" we are F###### mad".
Give Hooton the Booton!
Perhaps someone should ask Hooton the question what happened to the tenants when she bought an apartment building & renovated it? People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!
I have a question I'm surpised no one one seems to have asked through the many comments on this blog,
What was the Doctor's name who gave the Conservative Government of New Brunswick verification of his abuse before this Government went public to speak on this mans behalf to a large group of the public?
It is all a ploy by Mr. Lord and Ms. Hooton to win byelection. Do they really care about roomers and renters is very questionable. Lord's Ministers promised Tim Smith to look at his recommendations on VLTs and they are still looking at it. Just donot believe what Lord and gang says just watch out what they actually do.
7:45 PM you are right. There may be violation of privacy rights of Mr. Perkins.
7:45 & 7:49....You are both retarded; please report to the remedial learning class.
What part of "HE WANTED THE POSTERS MADE" do you idiots not get? This is such liberal thinking. A guy says he wants something, and then a stupid liberal tries to tell him that he knows what’s best for him.
Are you people actually that stupid? Do you eat your own crap? My god, reading this blog scares the hell out of me. I saw on the news that NB has the lowest literacy rate in Canada...well this proves it.
I'm actually amazed at how stupid you all are, and you want to lead this province!? I'd be suprised if anyone of you could pass grade 12 calculus, opps, to far? I'm sorry, I forgot that you’re all imbeciles.
Well, regardless of what happens in Saint John, we conservatives (and I used a small c there) have one thing the liberals will never have....facts. I know it hurts to be told how dumb you are, but from time to time I think people need to hear it.
People are entitled to an opinion, whether you disagree with it or not, calling people names doesn't mark you as somebody with 'more intelligence'. There is plenty of reason to dislike Lord, and arguing in favour of Mr. Perkins rights doesn't make people unintelligent. You don't need calculus to have EMPATHY. We don't know anything about Mr. Perkins, what we do know is that the conservatives have been in power over a decade and people like Mr. Perkins have no rights as roomers and boarders, so it's no surprise that people are cynical about their motives. Mr. Perkins won't be the first 'political casualty' who will be forgotten once his use has been served.
8:21 PM you are using denegrading language. That reveals a lot about you. You must hurting. That is the way Lord and his supporters function - put people down and they will agree with you. How sad? How uncivilized? This has nothing to do being Liberal, Conservative or any other political party. This simply shows how degenerated you are and how degenrated Lord brand of P.C party has become. This sure is not going to help you get votes. This is putting your foot deeper in your mouth.
Anyone reading your comments will be able to tell who needs to be educated. God help us to get rid of these savages.
I have to admit I'm confused by the debate. If this guy WANTS to support the Tories and WANTS the posters made, what's the problem?Is he not allowed to publicly support a party? I would imagine if this same guy was supporting the Liberal or NDP party, this wouldn't even be an issue for most of the folks here. 8:21 has way too much rhetoric in the comments but he is right that this is classic liberal thinking and I have to agree the issue doesn't make sense. I don't see why this guy can't be allowed to support a political party if he wants to. Does he not have right too?
So Spinks you are saying that in case of 8:21 name calling is Ok. Interesting.
The answer to that is simple, nobody is talking about Mr. Perkins rights or actions, he has a PERFECT right to support who he wants.
But did he print off flyers, get newspaper interviews and pictures? How many such people do you read or hear about on a regular basis when there is no election?
The point is that it is exploitation. We know that poor people have been ignored, we know NB has the lowest minimum wage, that roomers and boarders don't even have ANY rights, and yet the party is coming along and using one of the people whose very condition is a result of their inaction as a reason to vote for them.
They are claiming that people like Mr. Perkins NEED the PC's in order to be helped, when we KNOW that they are in their current situation BECAUSE of the party. If this were 1992 and McKenna was doing the same thing, then the same charge would apply. The fact is that the NDP and liberal parties do not make policy-they are the opposition.
They don't get off scott free, as I've said elsewhere, the liberals have almost as many seats and they have money and lawyers and they could easily be making more of a stink about it, however, they can't actually enact legislation.
Hope that clears it up for you.
You are right about comments about Perkins. He is being exploited. It is a shame and disgrace. The very government which is grossly negligent of the rights of the poor and weak suddenly is trying to depict the champion of the same. I hope people see through this hypcrisy of the worst kind.
On legislation with 27/28 seats Lord government will be much more receptive because of the pressure. It will move faster on legislation and also fullfil its promises and committments. With P.C.s winning the seat Lord will go back to his old ways and arrogance will quadruple. The only way Bernard Lord moves when he is under fire. I hope his candidate loses miserably.
C'mon 11:02, don't put words in my mouth, you know better than that. I think the wrtier's comments are full of rhetoric and name calling is never needed but the underlying point is correct. If this man wishes to attach his name, likeness or anything else to anyone's campaign and they're okay with it so be it. It's done all the time during elections. Was the flyer at the heart of the dispute even sanctioned by the Hooton campaign anyway? It doesn't look too official
The bottom line is if this man is okay with it, it's not expolitation because he has willingly become a participant. The writer above has made the clearest argument but even that doesn't quite explain the problem and it's still not clear why others are making the case that this man is not allowed to attach himself to the Tory campaign. By that logic the Liberal Party is exploiting Tim Smith by him wearing a Liberal shirt. Anyone who has a problem with this should go to the man himself and tell him he shouldn't be attachimg his likeness to the Tories. How would you like someone to tell you you can't publicly support a political party? You'd probably be as happy as this guy would if you confronted him with such an ultimatum.
Well I'll save you all the guess work on this one.
I saw Russell out in front of Mrs.Hooton's campaign Headquarters this morning.
I stopped to chat with Mr.Perkins and asked him to please not let the Consevative Party or it's people forget his name tomorrow morning when this is all over.
I reached out to shake his hand at which time he made it VERY CLEAR in a slightly raised voice and I quote((Let's get one thing strait right now!! I DO NOT support this or any other party and that's a fact.
I am just asking these people to help stop abuse of roomers and boarders))
To which I said good for you and I was only asking you to make sure the Conservative Party did not forget your Name as they felt the need to help you on this issue.
I then turned to Charlie Leblanc and a long time friend of his that had stopped to say hello and to chat about the old days when they went to school together.
Charlie asked me if I remembered to bring the digital camera.
I said yes I did so he asked me to take a picture of him and his friend
I got the camera out to take a picture and Mr.Perkins got up and joined them for the shot of which he stood very proudly.
I will get charlie to put the picture in today or in the morning as we will be very busy most of the day.
I hope this clears up some of the questions that have been asked here In the last two days.
Because I know it certainly did for me!!
This tells me I called it right on the money the first time and I will stick by what I've printed.
Spinks, 8:21 PM starts off by calling others retard. You left this site for a while because someone called your ideas retard. You said it was degrading to mental health patients. Now you are ok with it. I was just pointing out your blantant double standards.
As far as Perkins is concerned I agree with Tim Smith that he is being exploited. It is very obvious. Liberals did not make posters of Tim Smith. It becomes a bigger exploitation when you look at Lord government's record which is dismal when it comes to the rights of roomers and boarders, poor and disabled. This is another of Lord and group's unethical behaviour by exploiting an allegedly abuse person.
I fail to see the double standard. I've said the name calling is never needed although unacceptable is probably a better term. I wrote at the beginning that I think the writing in question is full of rhetoric but somewhere in there was a good point in which this guy should be able to support whoever he wants and if he agrees to flyers with his picture, who are we to tell him he can't. That is all. I'm hardly condoning bad manners. I still maintain that calling someone a "retard" is a derogatory term. It still gets used here from time to time and my "protest" didn't seem to carry much weight on the issue. I think the regulars know by now I don't agree with the term. You remembered and I appreciate someone else bringing the issue up. Thank you.
Nobody is telling him he can't. But is HE paying for flyers? It is Hootons official telephone number on the flyers. Is it HIS telephone number? Is HE getting all this publicity? Of course not, nobody would care if it was just him saying he supported Hooton. If it was then we'd have hundreds of flyers all with different people who are supporters. We don't, we have HIM. And we have HIM because of the tory campaign. THATS the exploitation. The question is 'why him', and that tells you everything you need to know about exploitation. If he weren't homeless and poor, he'd certainly never be on a brochure.
Seems irrelevant now anyway given the results. It obviously didn't help. Still I see it as this man's choice if he wants to be part of the campaign or not. If he didn't agree, I'm certain there are lots of anti-Lord groups which would gleefully launch a lawsuit on his behalf. That doesn't appear to be the case though.
You're giving ideas to lawyers. They might just do that.
I'm sure they've already thought of it but thanks for the credit.
Spinks I'm surprised at you comments on this as I've clearly given you the story and my last comment has taken the guess work out of it for you. so you don't have to ask about the items within your list.
A- the phone # was a direct line to the candidate's office (Hooton)
B-Mr.Perkins was put in a chair to receive the callers and tell them of his hard times. Which was only done on the day they put out the leaflet.
also the Conservatives failed to do any such research on,or even confirm in any manner what-so-ever his misgivings.
The following day which was Sunday he had to sit outside the campaigne office on a large flower pot for the day.
and finally on the actual day of the by-election he was also to sit on the flower pot until eventually he was placed down at the Broad St.Polling Station to say hi to voters as they passed by.
I noticed on Tuesday morning after the By-Election he was again sitting on the flower pot in front of the headquarters of the candidate, (Hooton)even though it was now closed and being dismantled.
C-There was NO mention of his hardships during the entire 2 and a half weeks of by-election even though he appeared on many items printed through-out the by-election over that same period of time.
D-The conservative Party has paid for all material containing this man's picture and story which did say::
((Authorized by the Official agent for Michelle Hooton.
Printed by the Michelle Hooton campaign,12 Charlotte Street Saint John.)) along the bottom.
E-This story and the leaflet only appeared after most news pieces confirmed that the largest group of undicided votes were the poor people ie:working poor,Unemployed and social assistance concentrated mostly in the south end of Saint John.
F-I had a talk with Mr.Perkins who by the way has a very unpredictible personality.
He said very clearly to me that he DID NOT support the Conservative Party nor for that matter any other party.
He just happened to ask the party in question to help with the issue of roomers and boarders and the many perils they face by the owners of such properties.
This is just the tip of it!!, there are many many questionable Items of interest in which this party took part in, leading up to the final MINUTES of the By-Election.
Thanks Tim. It just wasn't that clear before. I don't know what to make of it. Sounds like Mr. Perkins may be mentally ill given your story. If that is indeed the case and he doesn't have his faculties, I'll go along with you on the exploitation.
Post a Comment