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>John Turmel Runs In Ontario Bi-Election
>Date: #1057028 - Fri Mar 11 2005
>From: rastaruss

JCT: Thank you. I'd missed it. Actually, I hadn't looked.

Orangeville Banner (includes all candidate profiles)
Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Fringe parties join race
Four new candidates on ballot for byelection

ASHLEY GOODFELLOW,
Banner Staff Writer
Four more names will appear on the ballot for the March 17
byelection in Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey, making it an
eight-person race for a seat at Queen's Park.

The new candidates came forward last week, and secured
nominations to oppose Conservative John Tory, Liberal Bob
Duncanson, NDP Lynda McDougall and Green Frank de Jong --
the four candidates already in the running.

Added to the ballot are Philip Bender, Ontario Libertarian
Party; Bill Cook, Representative Party of Ontario; Paul
Micelli, Family Coalition Party; and John Turmel,
Abolitionist Party.

The four new contestants all say their fringe campaigns give
DPWG constituents an alternative to mainstream politics --
and hope the byelection will act as a springboard to promote
their platforms and mobilize their parties.

With only nine days remaining in the race for MPP,
candidates will have to shift their campaigns into high gear
to make themselves heard.

Here's a look at what the four new hopefuls have to offer:

JOHN TURMEL
John Turmel says his record of political victories will
appeal to voters in DPWG.

JCT: I'm not sure if he means the "Guinness record" of
political "non-victories?"

Founder of the Abolitionist Party of Canada, Turmel is
running to promote freedom of choice and freedom of rights.
With a campaign focused on an interest-free social currency
-- a concept that supports the province funding services
with tax credits and alternative currencies -- Turmel says
his platform is a means to the end of poverty.
"When Argentina went broke they adopted an interest-free
currency, and they staved off a depression," he says, adding
that he presented the idea to the UN in 2000. "I think
Ontario should do the same thing."

JCT: Wow.

Turmel, 54, is a professional poker player at the Brantford
casino, where he recently moved to from Ottawa.

JCT: Too bad either sobrique "The Engineer" or
"TajProfessor" or "Great Canadian Gambler" wasn't included.

He also supports the legalization of marijuana, prostitution
and gambling, and successfully led the fight to have
marijuana possession charges against 4,000 people dropped
last year.

JCT: First time the media ever mentions that it was my
Parker and Turmel-Paquette Applications that got Aug 01 2001
declared Terry Parker Day even if it was spoiled on Oct 07
2003 Hitzig-Myrden Day.

"I support the end of poverty, and to keep prohibition out
of victimless, consensual crimes," he says.
The DPWG byelection is March 17.

JCT: I'd actually said that I wanted to keep prohibition out
of Gambling, Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll.

>rastaruss
>Date: #1057038 - Fri Mar 11 2005

This riding has been abandoned twice by the Conservative
representative for the new party leader to win a seat. Ernie
Eves inherited it from Tilson, who now is our fed MP. Ernie
is handing it over to John Tory, the newly minted Ontario
Tory leader. The Regressive Conservatives are counting on
this being a shoo-in. It probably will be.
The Green Party provincial leader, Frank DeJong, is a friend
of mine. He'd have had my vote (his sign is in front of my
house), but I wonder about casting it for Turmel instead.
The Greens beat the NDP candidate here in the last
provincial election (third place behind Liberal and PC).
Maybe he's got signs too?

JCT: Sorry, no signs. And as for Frank, we go back a long
way. I was in the pro-LETS wing of the Greens and he was in
the anti-LETS wing which explains why the spokesperson of
the Greens never mentions LETS interest-free financing which
is on the party's program, or was.

Just like there are narc moles available to do the talking
about the Hitzig decision so the Medpot Engineer wouln't get
heard on the subject, so too, Frank's crowd expelled the
LETS Engineer in the early years and those spokespersons now
shut out any mention of the LETS solution to underfunding
problems to the members.

Maybe you didn't know 6 people expelled me from the Green
Party in 1985 for advocating LETS with Our Fuhrer Trevor
Hancock's authorization.

So on all counts, this is your judgment day. You'll probably
never get another chance to put an X beside the name of The
Engineer whose LETS currency software will end poverty and
whose invincibility will end prohibitions on harmless
pleasures.

And it's been the same "financial" and "personal" freedoms
plank I've been pushing my whole 25 years without deviation.
Other than adding the Self-Insurance program later on. See
this, my most elegant program, at:
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/abprogs.htm

I finally got an invitation to the Monday night meeting.
Maybe the Chamber of Commerce will start being more
professional about it from now on. In a country where they
arrest uninvited political candidates, it's not fair to make
candidates presume they are invited.

So tomorrow, they get their one and only Guinness Record
show at the meeting in Shelburn.

And other than forgetting to mention I'm in the Guinness
Book of Records, Ashley Goodfellow did one fine report.


--
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
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel 519-753-0645 USENET: can.politics