[Biogrand]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/times/Dogfight-in-Winnipeg-North-byelection-106551663.html
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PPCA was mention in this article regarding their participation in Winnipeg North, unfortunately Mikkel was unable to do this for whatever reason.

Notice it was 'requestS', as in more than one request.

You would think that during a by-election, the leader would keep an eye out to these things.

[Jay Frank]

./me *Golf clap*

J

[Mikkel Paulson]

I don't know how they made these requests, but my contact information is readily available and I never received any communication from them, nor did our PR department. I'll look into it.

What's more, their information is out of date, as they report me as the Winnipeg North candidate.

[Mike Bleskie]

I was never contacted by WFP by email or by phone. I think this may just have been a clerical error on the part of the paper. I will be contacting them.

Edit: This article is by Rob Brown, who works with The Times, one of the satellite papers of WFP. He did get the very initial press release done before Jeff stepped in as a candidate. I'm confused as to why we weren't in the loop. I did not receive any emails from him (I would have recognized it) and my phone has been silent. Mikkel reports the same. Therefore, this reporter is fabricating his requests, or he did something completely wrong to try and reach us.

[Jay Frank]

I'm very surprised that main stream media claims they can't get a comment from "Radical Extremists" like you....(sarcasm dripping).
Do your job and spin some social engineering into a positive media response Blewski and I'll give you some karma....
Mik...welcome to "media control" and that "certain kind of influence" by the powers that be.
I suggest you WAKE UP.

J

[Mikkel Paulson]

Not quite sure what you're getting at.

Regardless, their article is clearly based on the initial press release we issued which stated that I would be a candidate. We issued another a day later, still a whole week ago, stating that Jeff had been selected to run in my place. All of the information on our website lists Jeff as candidate.

I've since added contact emails for the entire Federal Council and all of the candidates save for Craig (I'm not sure if he has an @pirateparty.ca email). Once we get full bios online, I'll post more detailed contact info including my telephone extension (*100) and IM accounts ([email protected] on MSN, AIM, and Skype).

[Mike Bleskie]

We already sign all our emails with a plethora of our contact info.

[Biogrand]

What's more, their information is out of date, as they report me as the Winnipeg North candidate.

Well did anyone of us tell them of the change? lol

[Mikkel Paulson]

Yes.

We issued another a day later, still a whole week ago, stating that Jeff had been selected to run in my place. All of the information on our website lists Jeff as candidate.