JCT: There's no chance to field enough candidates to form a
political party in time for the election.

I'm still going to run and I urge those people who said they
wanted to run just for the pleasure of having the chance to
tell people about how a provincial, municipal and federal
LETS Local Employment-Trading System could end their fiscal
dilemmas while at the same time building our own
Abolitionist Party LETS.

That's no problem. Without the quick route to party status,
we'll be falling back on the getting the required 10,000
signatures to found an Ontario Party, which should be
especially easier now that email signatures are now valid in
Ontario! Unfortunately, I won't get the chance to fight for
the right to participate in the Leaders Debate and I'd bet
the Freedom and Libertarian leaders will be excluded from
the Big Debate without being heard.

One last time, this is how easy it is to get nominated. When
I arrive in a new constituency, I average 20 signatures an
hour. 25 signatures can be had in one good hour and with
nominations closing at 2pm, it's a cinch to be done on the
last day. That's the reason I've registered on the last day
so consistently, especially in far-away ridings.

Here's the pitch at the door:

"Are you registered to vote?
My name is John Turmel and I want to be an independent
candidate in the election but for the right to speak, I need
25 signatures. [show the nomination form]
Now YOU DON'T HAVE TO VOTE FOR ME. [this is important]
This only gives me the right to speak and so I can try to
win your vote. Will you give me the right to speak? "

JCT: That's it. No talk of program, beefs, nothing. Just,
"give me the right to speak, please, pretty please?" It
works as well getting signatures for someone else. Don't
spend more than 5 minutes with anyone. 8 out of 10 people
will sign with a "sure."

If someone asks what you want to say, answer he'll find out
from everyone if he gives you the right to speak. Will he
give you the right to speak?

Do an apartment building so everyone's in the same poll and
it's easy for the Returning officer to check.
Start at the top so you're walking down the stairs.
It's easy as pie.

Finally, I have an auditor for you if you want one. Our
party Chartered Public Accountant is Martin Hache #8117, 48
Colonnade Rd. Ottawa. You can file a "zero money" campaign
and just swear a Candidate Declaration of null contributions
and expenses when it's over though you need an auditor in
case.

Also, you need to designate a bank where you'll be keeping
your contributions if you ever get any.

So, with the bank and auditor info, to run in this first of
3 elections costs a couple of hours getting signatures,
$200, and a few meetings explaining how a provincial LETS
would work and inviting people to call to join our party
LETS until then.

Again, if you were only going to run to help me get our
party registered, that's off the agenda right now. But
meetings are a great place to get signatures because even
the Liberals and Tories will sign to let us field our own
team if they don't have to vote for us.

As I've pointed out, someone at my National Capital Freenet
ISP changed my ID to the outside world so my name would no
longer be recognized and my posts rejected so tens of
thousands of people still don't know what's going on, nor my
failure to get a party registered. Hey, they didn't find out
I tried so they don't know I failed. Maybe I'll just shut up
rather than point out how the saboteur crimped my
operations.

Julie Stanley of the Ontario Elections Finance says that an
independent candidate's excess lumber and goods donations
have to be sold off at auction and the monies remitted to
the Government. So there's no reason to use candidate tax
credits at this time at all as it only incurs accounting
necesities.

Finally, Ms. Stanley tells me that so far, the Province
doesn't accept email party signatures. I explained that the
nomination form contains a squiggled signature that can be
checked with the citizen's printed name, address and phone
number. Why should an emailled signature to the same
declaration as printed on the form that can also be checked
with the citizen's printed name, address and phone number
not be acceptable in this high-tech age too? She told me to
make a submission and I added I could always do a judicial
review if I didn't like the answer.

Another problem I'm going to have to broach is that all the
election forms are online so they can be printed out and
used except for the nomination form. It's not online. I have
to go to the riding office in another town. That's silly.
I'll urge them to put it online too.

So the purpose of the Abolitionist Candidate in this
election is to explain how a Provincial Community Currency
would help fund everything that suffers from lack of funds
and broadcast our web site for those who want to join our
party LETS until then.

And mention that the LETS credits they earn in Ontario are
already spendable in 53 countries where people have adopted
the Time Standard of Money.

Finally, no hard feelings if you'd rather sit this one out.
But for those who want high-adventure, this hat-trick of
possibilities should provide one of wildest rides
imaginable.

So go out and do your own thing. Let me know on Thursday
evening if you signed up.

And keep in mind that you'll be the only person in the race
talking about the LETS solution. Part of a small elite with
the answer amongst a horde of well-wanters with no idea of
how to pay for well they want.

We'll be a small team but the only people pushing the LETS
solution in the whole province. I remember how proud I was
in the 1997 federal election when I was the only candidate
in the country pushing LETS openly. And now it's on the UN
Millennium Declaration.

Though a minority opinion is not necessarily right, a right
opinion on a novel problem always starts with a minority of
one.



--
Abolitionist Slave Leader John C."The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel
for UNILETS interest-free time-based currency in U.N. resolution C6
to Governments in the http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm
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