While the progressive conservative leader Doug Ford seems to be crossing towards his Third consecutive electoral victory, His campaign staff is warned not to abandon their messages on voting day At the risk of facing a flame and candidates’ flame, Global News learned.
Political parties generally pour out a huge quantity of resources and efforts to get the voting campaigns out on election day, ensuring that the identified supporters voted, helping voters go to the ballot box and deploy volunteers in targeted districts, the parties hope to return or hold.
On Wednesday, Kory Tineycke, campaign director of the PC party, sent a “polling day directive” to campaign staff and volunteers urging them to put “part of personal interest” and to remain attached to the constituencies to which they were assigned.
“Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that some of you are planning to leave the campaigns you have been assigned, to go to another driving or to go home early,” said Tenneycke in the email obtained by Global News. “Frankly, it’s unacceptable.”
The email stressed that the directive applies to all those who work for the conservative progressive team and that they would be wrong “to think that any” excuse explaining why you would abandon a local campaign “would be accepted.
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Teneycke warned that the party would carry out “punctual checks” to ensure that “everyone follows this directive” and suggested that those who leave early could face consequences that were not clearly stated.
“For anyone who does not follow this management, your candidate will receive an appeal to inform him that you have chosen to ignore the management of the central campaign team and that your actions could cost their colleagues,” said email.
In a second e-mail sent to local candidates and campaign directors, Teneycke warned that “the breakdown of this directive is a distraction and a total loss of the time of each”.
“(The staff) cannot leave a driving early to join you in your constituency to celebrate your victory, examine your surveys or do any other activity when working to support a target seat,” Tineycke told candidates.
“Please do not put your staff in the uncomfortable position to receive calls from the central campaign applying this directive.”
The email comes after a call from all the candidates this week in which Teneycke congratulated the members for having led a “manual campaign”, which was disciplined and avoided damage of false steps.
Sources have said that Global News, Teneycke, underlined the party’s executive by the party as a major engine support at the level of the “record”, but added that the resources would be redeployed for any candidate who needed help.
Teneycke also thanked the candidates for having avoided the interviews with the media after being invited by the party not to participate and that the progressives had not yet lost a single candidate due to scandals or bad interviews.
On Wednesday, while Ford campaigned in Windsor, the head of the PC removed a question asked a local candidate on the reasons why he avoided participating in the electoral debates.
“Wait, it’s an unfair question,” prohibits Ford. “I am the party leader. I prefer that our candidates go doors.
“I am the one who makes this decision,” said Ford.
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