Patrick Muttart speaks!
By kadyomalley - Friday, August 15, 2008 - 0 Comments
Well, not directly, but still. Sadly for the Sparrow – and more sadly still, I’m sure, for Patrick Muttart and the Conservative Party – as of this morning, not a word of this statement appears to have found its way into the post-hearing coverage, which really isn’t all that surprising, considering how late it went out:
From: “Ryan Sparrow”
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:41:57 -0400
To: undisclosed-recipientsSubject: Statement from the Conservative Party
Media reports today suggest that Patrick Muttart organized and administered regional media buys for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2006 federal election. This is false.
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Oily the Splot: The Conservatives had a contract
By Paul Wells - Monday, June 9, 2008 at 5:44 PM - 0 Comments
I am not making what follows up.
I have just returned from an undisclosed location where I saw, with my inkless eyes, what appeared to be a contract in due form between Fuelcast Inc. and RMI — the acronym stands for Retail Media Inc., the Conservative Party of Canada’s media buyer — for a campaign of 15-second gas-station ads that would run between June 10 and July 7. The order date for the contract, which carries contract number FM-183, is June 3 and the cost of airing (gassing?) the ads is $200 a pop. I did not see the total amount of the contract or any information about geographical distribution of the ads.
Fuelcast hadn’t seen ads as of this morning, when they informed Retail Media that they don’t run political ads. The discussions between Fuelcast and Retail Media remain a black box to me, but if I was a fledgling company taking money for an ad campaign, I’d have asked what the ads were about before I signed a contract.
