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Topic: Ontario NDP leadership race? You wouldn't know it from provincial office
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aka Mycroft
rabble-rouser
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posted 08 November 2008 07:18 PM
The first "official" NDP leadership occurred today in Toronto but you'd never know it looking at the party website which has virtually no information on the contest. The leadership race update page has an announcement from the summer informing prospective candidates that they can call provincial office for a registration form but there's no information on who has registered as a candidate and no information about campaign events such as the nine official leadership debates, their dates and locations. There's also no information encouraging people to join the party in order to vote, no information on cut off dates, not even any information on how the leadership election is going to work. We have just seen an American election demonstrate the importance of the internet in spreading information and building capacity but these lessons appear to have been lost on the ONDP. If the NDP were on the ball we would have seen live streaming of today's leadership debate on the site and the event uploaded onto YouTube in the coming days but there's not even any announcement that the debate was scheduled. [ 08 November 2008: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]
From: Toronto | Registered: Aug 2004
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