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It’s 3pm on Hamilton Mountain

Author: Chris Simms (Liberal)

25 Sep

For the past few days, the local election buzz has been a YouTube ad entitled “It’s 3pm”:

Essentially, the ad reveals the fact that incumbent Hamilton Mountain MP Chris Charlton has her constituency office open until 1:00pm, Monday through Friday. Banham calls this an afront to democracy, Charlton states that she is always accessible regardless of her posted office hours. Regardless of who is right, the story has gotten some notice across the city.

The other night, CHCH news played the ad and yesterday the Banham camp introduced a new website to accompany the video, www.its3pm.ca.

The crux of the matter here is that this is a significant step forward in local campaigns. Traditional campaigns are generally fought by sign pounding and door knocking and this has taken it to a whole new level. In fact, its rather impressive.

No matter how you view the ad and the explanations, its good to see some life injected into these local races.

Filed under: Chris Simms (Liberal), Hamilton / Niagara, Liberal, Ontario

4 Responses for "It’s 3pm on Hamilton Mountain"

AJ Sharma (Liberal) September 25th, 2008 at 4:16 pm 1
The test is whether this is going to be effective.
Hopeful September 25th, 2008 at 7:42 pm 2
This is indeed an interesting bit of political theatre with an decent use of the internet to boot.
However, what I find most interesting is that I had to Google his name (or watch the video very carefully a second time) to figure out which party Tyler was running for. Is this a fear of Charlton or Dion??? I suspect I know the answer. Good luck Tyler!
Pierre Lessard-Blais September 26th, 2008 at 5:51 am 3
Chris,

Je suis d’accord avec toi: cette vidÃ©o amÃ¨ne une certaine fraÃ®cheur Ã une campagne locale qui s’annonce trÃ¨s serrÃ©e!

Toutefois, je suis d’avis qu’il faut souligner les bons coÃ»ts d’une campagne locale, comme les mauvais. Ce pourquoi je vous invite Ã regarder cet autre vidÃ©o de Tyler Banham qui reflÃ¨te Ã la fois un mauvais goÃ»t et un culte de la personnalitÃ© franchement Ã©trange!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZuXIkbxcIk

J’ai sÃ©lectionnÃ© les meilleurs moments pour vous! :
0min57s.
1min02s.
1min34s.
2min18s.

Bidonnez-vous bien!
Joe Distler October 27th, 2008 at 12:07 pm 4
“The test is whether this is going to be effective.”

It wasn’t.

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