Friday, July 31, 2015

I'm Writing Three Cheques

It's pretty obvious that Harper intends to use his party's fundraising advantage to skew the election in his favour.  I don't like it but, fair enough. He's not breaking any rules. Plenty of Canadian governments before his have done similar things.

That said, I don't like it. I've been thinking about it and realized I could sit and fume - and sit and fume a little more - or maybe I could do something about it, just a little bit.


So I've written three cheques for $200 in total.  There's a $50 cheque for the New Democrats and a $50-cheque for the Liberals. Then I'm sending a cheque for $100 to the Green Party, my party of choice.


What if we all did that?  Every non-Conservative. Every supporter of any opposition party. If you're a Liberal send a hundo to the LPC, and a Mackenzie King to the NDP and the Greens.  And, so you Dippers don't get confused, that would be a Borden to the NDP, and a Mackenzie King to each of the Libs and Greens.

Anyone else up for this or has our partisanship become so toxic that even opposition supporters can't help other opposition supporters and our country?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not a bad idea - I'm in. And the $200 dollars in political donations will yield a $175 tax credit.

zoombats said...

must be nice to give any kind of money to any of those fucks. I think I'll buy food

Lorne said...

I awoke this morning thinking along similar lines, Mound. All we want to see in the upcoming election is a fair fight. Your plan would help even the playing field.

Anonymous said...

Lorne's comment reminds me about a cartoon:

A knight comes in tatters from a battle to a king and reports: all those who fought fair are dead.
A..non

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGAiW5dOnKo

Anonymous said...

Anyong said....did that during the last provincial election in AB. Mentioned that exact same thing to people here and stopped doing it as I was thought to be a bit loo-loo. What can be said...moving out as soon as getting through a couple of hurdles.

Anonymous said...

Anyong said....Joined the Green Party out of Calgary. There aren't any representatives where I am located. All you who contribute to this blog by way of comment ought to do as MOS suggests. Better still, have a fund raising event.