Posted on 10/31/2016 9:49:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – A dozen Canadian women are heading to Florida on a mission unrelated to sun, surf and sand — they intend to help Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump.
They’re bunking in a pair of houses that will serve as temporary campaign dorms for the travelling Canucks, as they knock on doors and make calls in what’s arguably the most important region of the most important swing state in the U.S. election.
”We didn’t come here to have a holiday — we’re here to work,” said Cheryl Conley-Strange.
”It’s a lot of work.”
She knows from experience. The Winnipeg woman has worked every federal Liberal campaign since 1979, when she was a poll captain for future foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy. She’d intended to retire from organizational work after the federal election, satisfied with the state of her party.
But she figured she had one more campaign in her.
Conley-Strange chatted with Manitoba friends about helping political allies in the U.S.: ”I started saying to them, ‘Hey, why don’t we go down to the States and help (the Democrats)?’… To be neighbourly — to help people who feel the same way we do (about issues).”
She suggested staying at her family’s winter home in central Florida. So many people took her up on the idea that they wound up getting a second place in the same Kissimmee neighbourhood. She’d bought in that location a few years ago — she liked the proximity to Disneyworld.
It also happened to be on rich electoral soil.
She only realized recently that Central Florida is considered the swing region of the biggest swing state. it’s sandwiched between Florida’s solidly Republican north and solidly Democratic south. And it has tens of thousands of new available votes.
An influx of Puerto Ricans is having a ripple-effect on the politics in this area, and therefore on the country.
These new residents are eligible to vote immediately, as Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. They tend to be more liberal than the state’s Cuban voters. And their ranks are growing to rival the Cubans.
A group that works to register Latino voters has three offices in the state — and none are in the metropolis of Miami to the south. They’re all here in central Florida, in Kissimmee, Orlando and Tampa.
This is where the electoral action is, says Esteban Garces, the state head of the group, called Mi Familia Vota.
“This region is going to determine who the next president is,” Garces said. “Central Florida is the swing region in Florida… (And) Donald Trump needs Florida to win. If Hillary (Clinton) captures Florida, well, she captures the White House.”
Central Florida’s population has grown almost 10 per cent since the last election, and 60 per cent of that growth is Latino. Mi Familia Vota alone has registered more than 33,000 people in the area this year, and half were Puerto Rican.
Conley-Strange played a role in registration.
She came in September to meet Democratic party organizers; helped set things up for the arrival of her friends; and made calls to register voters. She sat near Spanish-speaking colleagues, and turned over the phone whenever she couldn’t communicate with someone in English.
Her friends arrive over the coming week.
They include a former Manitoba Liberal candidate and provincial party official. Because she arrived earlier, she got to attend a campaign rally last week featuring President Barack Obama: “It was like seeing a rock star,” she said. “A once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
She said she supports the Democrats for their shared views on social issues, like same-sex marriage and women’s rights. As for their opponent, she expressed dismay over things Trump has said about foreigners, like Mexicans.
“It just goes so far beyond anything we’re used to seeing in politics,” she said.
“It can’t become the norm.”
The one thing Canadians can’t contribute to this election is money.
“I asked (the Democrats) if I could buy a T-shirt,” she said.
“They said no.”
A foreign national can volunteer for a U.S. party and, in fact, Canadian and American campaign workers regularly help parties across the border. The federal Liberals even lease the same voter-outreach software used by the Democrats — so Conley-Strange knows the system well.
Foreigners cannot, however, make financial donations.
That includes buying partisan souvenirs.
Like migrating geese, they will crap all over everything.
Will they be voting too?
Please, come knock on my door. I am begging you...
Be on the lookout for a dozen Donald Ducks.
So they told the border agents exactly what, as they entered the US?
That they were traveling for leisure? That they were coming to influence our elections?
Seems the first would be a lie, and the 2nd bar them from entry. Either way, they should be deported and flagged for no future admittance.
We should adopt Mexico’s policy of long prison terms for any foreigners attempting to influence elections.
First, the Russians, now Canadiens...leave us alone! lol
“A dozen Canadian women head south on a mission: Help Dems defeat Donald Trump”
More vagina voters for the Clinton campaign? Wonder if they will be registering?
For those of us in Florida this is just another reason to open up on Canadians....
Probably going to make a Madonna offer to male voters.
Found this one on the Interwebs....Take that, Guess Who!
Canadian woman, stay away from me
Canadian woman, mama let me be
I don’t need your Labbats beer
I don’t need your snow shoe gear
I don’t need your baby seals
I don’t need your perscription deals
Now woman, stay away,
Canadian woman, listen what I say
Canadian woman, get away from me
Canadian woman, mama let me be
Don’t want your cold wind blowing down my door
I don’t wanna see your snow no more
Chorus:
I don’t mean to criticize
All that whale blubber in your thighs
Now woman, get away
Canadian woman, listen what I say-ay
Canadian Woman, said get away
Canadian Woman, listen what I say
We don’t need your walrus pups
We don’t need your Stanley Cup
We won’t come to Niagra Falls
Don’t come shopping in our malls
Chorus
Canadian woman, stay away from me
Canadian woman, mama let me be
I gotta go, I gotta get away
Baby, I gotta go,
I am dying
I’m gonna leave you woman (4x)
Bye-bye (4x)
(Canadian woman)
You’re no good for me
And I’m no good for you
(Canadian woman)
I’ll look you right in the eye
And tell you what I’m gonna do
You know I’m gonna leave, you know I’m gonna go
You know I’m gonna leave,
I’m gonna leave you woman
Goodbye Canadian Woman
I got a $100 that says they vote while they are there.
Lemme guess this is Hillary’s old witch coven inbound to cast hexes on him. A good fire hose might be handy to have around...
Go look at their pictures at the link.
As a Canadian conservative, I would welcome 20,000 conservatives coming North to help out, like some of Obola’s campaign organizers did during our last federal election.
The problem is, in Alberta, we are stuck with a socialist Provincial gubmint for 3 more years and a Lieberal (read socialist-lite/crony capitalist) gubmint for 3 years, also. Who knows what will be left in 3 years?
As a former canuck, I have given my impression after back and forths twice a year to Vancouver. The US border agents are mean looking but once you answer their questions correctly, they’re OK. I agree that they lied to get into the country. probably said “vacation”.
Canadian border agents are A**HOLES. Always have been. They have that air of arrogance that makes you want to punch them in the face.
Meddling other country’s internal affairs. They should be summarily arrested and deported and never be allowed to enter the US.
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