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Conservative astro-turf on a Monday (updated)

Posted by Scott Tribe on July 6, 2009, at 4:06 pm |

What does “astro-turfing” mean, you might ask? Here is the definition given for it at Wikipedia:

Astroturfing is a word in English describing formal political, advertising, or public relations campaigns seeking to create the impression of being spontaneous “grassroots” behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf. The goal of such a campaign is to [...]

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“Team Kovach”

Posted by Scott Tribe on August 18, 2008, at 2:28 pm |

Just as a followup to my last blogpost, look what Jeff Davidson of the blog “Where’d That Bug Go” found at Guelph Conservative candidate Gloria Kovach’s website. Take a look at the picture titled “Team Kovach”, and look who happens to be in that picture and part of Gloria’s team:

Why, it’s “average Guelph citizen” [...]

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Memo to Gerry Nicholls: A Cons. partisan isn’t = to “grassroots opposition”

Posted by Scott Tribe on August 18, 2008, at 12:17 pm |

Gerry Nicholls, former VP of the National Citizens Coalition, and now columnist with the Sun chain of papers, has also got a blog up.  His attention was caught yesterday by an anti-Green Shift blogsite run by a fellow by the name of Barry Osmond in Guelph, which Gerry hails at his blogsite in this manner: [...]

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