Tories outsourcing their campaign call centre to Washington
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Phone glitch puts Tory calls on hold
Last Updated Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:09:18 EST
CBC News
The Conservative Party of Canada has stopped phoning Manitoba voters until it can iron out a technical glitch that made it appear calls from the Tories were coming from Washington, D.C.
Judith Dixon received a call early Wednesday evening.
"There was a young man on the line saying he was a representative of the federal Conservative party, representing Stephen Harper, and he was interested in knowing if any voting members of our family were going to support the Conservatives," she said.
When Dixon checked her call display, the number had a strange area code. She called back and heard a message saying she had reached a "non-working number at the U.S. Senate."
The message said if she felt she had reached the number in error, she should call the Capitol operator. She did, and so did about 30 other Manitobans.
Kimball Winn, with the U.S. Senate's information technology department, confirmed the number is a U.S. Senate number that had never been assigned.
U.S. Senate not involved with calls
Dialing the same number with Manitoba's 204 area code reaches a recording that indicates it's the "Conservative party election line." Callers are asked to leave a message.
"We've heard it was a technical glitch from a call centre we were using," said William Stairs, a spokesman for the Conservatives.
"All our call services to do voter ID are all run out of Canada," he said. "There are no calls being made out of the U.S. Senate on behalf of the Conservative party."
Stairs said the glitch would be fixed before any more calls are made to Manitobans.
A glitch?
Riiiiiiight, sure it was
RUEZ @ Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:49 am
Your really reaching, it's sad.
RUEZ RUEZ:
Your really reaching, it's sad.
Have I sunk to the Liberal bashing ridenrain depths of reaching yet?
Because until I do, then anything concerned with the political party whose views I most staunchly disagree with is fair game.
Tit for tat and all that.
RUEZ @ Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:25 am
Ruserious Ruserious:
RUEZ RUEZ:
Your really reaching, it's sad.
Because until I do, then anything concerned with the political party whose views I most staunchly disagree with is fair game.
What is it you disagree with? There plan to fund the military? There plan to fix medical wait times? There plan to reduce taxes? There plan to shelve the useless gun registry? There plan for a
free vote on SSM? There plan to get tough on criminals? I like that the Liberals have fixed our economy. But after eight consecutive surpluses it's time to put that money back where they got it.
RUEZ @ Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:39 am
IceOwl IceOwl:
I hope they have a plan to improve education so that our children know the difference between "there" and "their."

Good argument.
Ripcat @ Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:46 am
RUEZ RUEZ:
IceOwl IceOwl:
I hope they have a plan to improve education so that our children know the difference between "there" and "their."

Good argument.

Don't forget "your" and "you're."
RUEZ @ Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:01 am
Ripcat Ripcat:
Don't forget "your" and "you're."

It's a legitimate find alright but it's just not very good.
legitimate find, too bad it's from the CBC. to be correct it should have said liberal party.ca then it would be PC.
Nit picking over there and their is a characteristic indication of the existence of desperation.
So there!
Istanbul Istanbul:
Nit picking over there and their is a characteristic indication of the existence of desperation.
So there!
Hear (here), their (there) and everywear (everywhere) ♪
desperation reigns supreme ♪♪.
Sad
IceOwl IceOwl:
I hope they have a plan to improve education so that our children know the difference between "there" and "their."

and they're
So, considering that the it states that it is a glitch and the CPC phone tree is based in Canada, don't you think you should change the title?
Ruserious?
Unless you have details to prove that they actually do, you are misleading the readers and I really doubt that the Liberals need any more bad press.
ridenrain ridenrain:
So, considering that the it states that it is a glitch and the CPC phone tree is based in Canada, don't you think you should change the title? Ruserious?
Unless you have details to prove that they actually do, you are misleading the readers and I really doubt that the Liberals need any more bad press.
I agree. This thread's title is very misleading, and should be changed.
All you have to do is go into the first post and change the subject line.
Or we can start a thread titled "Liberals caught misleading members of Canada Kicks Ass".