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A “SMEAR CAMPAIGN” SAYS SIMARD Amanda Simard, Progressive Conservative candidate for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, sent an email response to a media request for comment on the Pierre Leroux website issue. “It’s unfortunate, but not surprising,” TUBUFE4JNBSE iUIBU.S-FSPVYJTHFU - ting so desperate that he must resort to spinning falsehoods in an attempt to attack our campaign and to smear Mme Simard allègue que le candidat libéral Pierre Leroux et sa campagne ont été engagés dans une campagne de dénigrement contre elle. my name. “These tactics parallel those GPVOEJOUIFQSPWJODJBM-JCFSBMBOE/%1 DBNQBJHOT XIFSF,BUIMFFO8ZOOFBOE Andrea Horwath’s teams’ run fictitious ads, in an attempt to deceive hardworking Ontarians. She continues: “I take pride in running a clean and positive campaign. I’ve made it my mission to knock on as many doors as possible in order to truly understand the issues we’re facing in GPR. If elected, I promise to be a strong, effective, and DPNNJUUFEWPJDFBU2VFFOT1BSL8FSF here for the people.” —Gregg Chamberlain
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GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca PIERRE LEROUX WEB NAME NOT FOR SALE the other Leroux, adding that he refused the offer.
Rachel Thériault provided EAP with screen shots of several emails between herself and Amanda Simard and a member of the IT support department for the Progressive Conservative party, to prove that she was a member of Simard’s campaign team for the GPR riding. —photo provided
Tucker is the name of the campaign mana- ger for Progressive Conservative candidate "NBOEB4JNBSE&"1TFOUBOFNBJM .BZ to the Simard campaign asking for comment. There was no response by the press deadline Leroux, the Liberal candidate for the Glen- garry-Prescott-Russell riding in the Ontario election, expressed disappointment about the whole situation during a phone interview, .BZ “I am surprised in
Why would the Progressive Conservatives want to buy the web- site of a man with the name of Pierre Leroux? He doesn’t know for sure him- self but he’s already declared that his website is not for sale. The other Pierre Leroux sent Pierre Leroux in Russell Township an email, April 7, about
Someone decided to burn one of the campaign signs set up in Alfred for Pierre Leroux, the Liberal candidate for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell in the June 7 provincial election. “It’s a surprise, yes, but I’m not as surprised, given the past events,” said -FSPVY EVSJOHB.BZQIPOFJOUFSWJFX Leroux referred to the theft, earlier in .BZ PGTFWFSBMPGIJTDBNQBJHOTJHOTJO the Russell Township area. That case is still under OPP investigation. The latest physical attack on the Liberal campaign in the GPR occurred sometime CFUXFFO'SJEBZBOE4BUVSEBZ .BZBOE JOUIF7JMMBHFPG"MGSFE0OFPGUIFMBSHF YDBNQBJHOTJHOTXBTQBSUMZCVSOFE and a number of other smaller lawn signs CAMPAIGN SIGN ARSON
a curious email request he received from a man who identified himself as Jason Tucker, campaign manager for a candidate in the Ontario provincial election. The other Leroux stated that he was asked if he would
Pourquoi les progressistes- conservateurs voudraient- ils acheter le site Web d’un homme du Québec avec le nom de Pierre Leroux se demande son homonyme.
the sense that this is my first provincial election campaign,” he said. “At the muni- cipal level, I never experienced anything like this. I am happy
Au cours de la fin de semaine du 25 mai, quelqu’un a décidé de brûler certaines des enseignes du candidat libéral Pierre Leroux. L’affaire a été signalée à la PPO. —photo Samantha Latreille were piled up, ready for burning, when the unknown vandals fled as local firefighters arrived. — Gregg Chamberlain
either sell or rent the use of his website domain name, pierreleroux.com, for two months, up until the June 7 Ontario election date. He pasted the French text of that email, XJUIBO&OHMJTIUSBOTMBUJPO JOUIFFNBJMIF sent to Leroux in Russell Township. “I don’t approve of this method which aims to confuse (political) messages through ‘pirating’ your name on the Internet,” stated
to see that the person (the other Pierre Leroux) wasn’t the type of person to allow that sort of thing to happen.” Leroux noted that at the time he received the email from his counterpart, he was not yet confirmed as the Liberal candidate for the GPR. That didn’t happen until the GPR Liberal Association held its April 14 confirmation meeting.
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