Shady Tactics From the NDP
February 12, 2025
For shits and giggles, I signed up for emails from the Ontario NDP. They’re good for, if nothing else, a few laughs. Such as their most recent email entitled, “Did you get a text from Dougie!?” Of course not, I thought. How could I? After all, I don’t have a cell phone. Pretty tough to text a landline. Not that people haven’t tried, including our local New Blue candidate. “Just reply to the text I sent you,” he said in a recent voice mail. I couldn’t help but laugh. Though I still voted for him.
The email in question leads off with a headline. How did Doug Ford get my phone number? Ontario residents report getting text messages about the provincial election. Ontario PC Party confirms it sends text messages but won’t confirm how it accesses Ontario residents’ phone numbers.
Yes, you read that right, they say. Ford and his PC insider pals are sending out unsolicited texts to unsuspecting Ontarians, asking for their votes. But here’s the kicker: they won’t reveal how they got your number. Shady? Absolutely. Surprising? Not at all. Let’s be real, a Premier who has to rely on shady tactics just to beg for votes isn’t a leader. It’s just desperation.
I couldn’t agree with them more. Time and again after getting unsolicited calls, I keep asking myself, “How did they get my number?”
In fact, I asked that very question once again last week when I listened to a voice mail someone left for me. A voice mail from someone on Jennie Stevens’ campaign team. Last I heard, however, Stevens wasn’t running for Doug Ford, but rather the same NDP that’s crying foul about using phone numbers obtained from questionable sources to beg for votes. The staffer even offered assistance to get to my polling place and invited a return phone call. For the record, I’ve never contacted Stevens’ office and have never provided her with my phone number. So it’s shady tactics when Ford does it. But for the NDP, it’s just aggressive campaigning.
As loyal readers are well aware, I’m the last guy who’s going to defend Doug Ford, but just maybe, this is one they might have considered sitting out.
Because it shows that it’s the NDP that’s truly desperate.
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