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2 young people working for the Liberal candidate in my riding came knocking on my door and asked me if they could count on my vote. I answered no.

   

They actually still do door-to-door campaigning?

   

And he answered the door with clothes on?

   

Canvassing never stopped. It's a huge part of the election campaign for most parties.

-J.

   

Surprising, isn't it?

   

Only go out of my way like that for JoHos.
Usually put a sign on my lawn of who I support so others don't waste their time. I'mnot one of these 'my politics is private' sissies. If you don't like my politics, that's your problem not mine.

   

O'Toole, Singh denounce aggressive protesters dogging Trudeau campaign

   

As someone who worked Liberal campaigns up until 2005-2006 and Conservative campaigns from 2007 onwards, I can tell you that there are bad apples in every party. Fucktards can ruin any political party and wreak havoc, as the worst of the lot only seem in it for themselves.

On the McGuinty provincial campaign of 2003, we had one of our 'supporters' become drunk and obnoxious, and get the local candidate into some trouble. There was also a woman kicked out of the campaign office for continuing to harass people during phone canvassing well after they said "No thank you".

When I worked my first couple of Conservative campaigns, we had to kick out a religious nut that was so far right, he scared us. There was also an instance of one of our members smashing Liberal signs with a bat in response to some Liberal supporters either purposely putting their signs smack in front of ours, or ripping them out completely.

Most of the people that work either side in the campaign are passionate, smart people that want to help and enjoy the experience, because it can be a lot of fun and you can make some new friends in the process.

Problem is, a few nutbars end up ruining said fun for everyone.

-J.

   

Ditto but occasionally someone decides to saavvveeee me from that sign. Last time it happened my daughter still lived at home and as we were arguing at the door she came to the door told the guy he wasn’t going to win and closed it in his face. Then she lectured me on how I should have just done that to start with. No one comes to the door anymore and I’m ok with that

   

Jeez... politics can sure bring out the worst in people. I'm always dismayed by the destructive and abusive behaviour that some display when it comes to who they support or don't support politically.

   

It's one of the reasons why I stopped working campaigns three years ago. I got tired from all the psychos and nut jobs that took all the fun out of it. I had an incident with one campaign in which I was putting a sign on someone's lawn (they had requested said sign, and mentioned where exactly they would like).

A neighbour that was sitting in his garage came out and started to verbally abuse for for putting said sign up, because "Signs aren't allowed on this street! You have no right to be here, son!"

I didn't even bother trying to reason with the idiot other than saying that the sign was requested by the homeowner. I finished putting in the sign and left while the fool was still yelling and carrying on.

Add that to some of increasing militant behaviour by campaign staffers over the years, and you know why I decided enough was enough. Even municipal politics got too crazy, and that's pretty sad. When you see candidates for school trustee vandalizing each other's signs, you know shit has gone crazy in a big way.

-J.

   

I guess it makes some people feel all big and powerful when they vandalize a sign. "Take THAT you dumb piece of wood! Hahaha look at you lying there on the ground. Woo hoo!" Idiots.

   

   

Most Canadians don’t pay massive amounts of attention to policy platforms but they do want to know a potential PM can be trusted at the helm. The Conservatives have acquired a crazy fringe and O’Toole’s calm demeanour is reassuring in that regard.

   

O'Toole's condemned yesterday's attack on Trudeau. Which is great. Problem is those protesters and other assorted idiots probably aren't going to vote Tory. They're mostly likely supporters of the PPC, Bernier's assortment of anti-vaxx/anti-mask/QAnon/etc cranks, so O'Toole denouncing them won't make them stop.

EDIT: guess I was wrong - a bunch of Tory volunteers got kicked out of the local candidate's campaign for acting up at the Trudeau appearance:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conser ... -1.6156959

   

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