{"id":2794,"date":"2010-11-08T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2010-11-08T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T23:04:00","slug":"julian-fantinos-greatest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"Julian Fantino’s Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over on his blog, Stephen Taylor takes a few shots<\/a> at the grits by election<\/a> candidate in Vaughan, Tony Genco<\/a>. Here’s a summary of Taylor’s damning criticism:<\/p>\n

1. Genco doesn’t mention Ignatieff in his brochure. “Is Genco relying more on the Liberal brand which is likely polling higher than the Ignatieff brand in Vaughan?<\/em>?” asks Taylor.<\/p>\n

2. Genco tagged a twitter post on Ken Dryden with a #MapleLeafs hash tag.<\/p>\n

3. Genco tweeted that 1200 people were at his kick-off rally on Thursday, whereas a local paper pegged the number at 250.<\/p>\n

Ouch. I tell ya, we’re getting into busty hookers and cocaine territory on the scandal-meter. Incorrect Twitter tags<\/em>! Exaggerated figures from a rally<\/em>! Next thing you know, we’ll find out Genco booked too small a room for an event so that the crowd would look bigger than it was! Scandal<\/em>!<\/p>\n

But…here’s the thing. Even Taylor’s trivial accusations are plain wrong.<\/p>\n

First off, point 1 – Genco isn’t mentioning Iggy<\/strong>. Well, take a look at Fantino’s brochure. No matter how hard you look, there are two people you won’t find in it – Waldo, and Stephen Harper.
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Point 2, hashtaggate – Genco hash tagged #MapleLeafs on a tweet about Ken Dryden<\/strong>. As I’m sure Stephen Harper’s hockey book will mention, Dryden was Leafs president for 7 years.<\/p>\n

Finally, point 3 – that Genco over estimated a crowd at his rally<\/strong>. Well, the Vaughan Citizen reported 1000 people at the rally. And Glenn Beck reported 45,000 were there to cheer on Genco. So, all in all, an estimate of 1200 isn’t preposterous.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: Taylor responds<\/a>. Harper does appear on some Tory campaign literature…though he’s not really any more prominent than Gilles Duceppe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on his blog, Stephen Taylor takes a few shots at the grits by election candidate in Vaughan, Tony Genco. Here’s a summary of Taylor’s damning criticism: 1. Genco doesn’t mention Ignatieff in his brochure. “Is Genco relying more on the Liberal brand which is likely polling higher than the Ignatieff brand in Vaughan??” asks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}