Category: Conservative politics
Ontario PCs two-step voting process and leadership debate
Ontario PCs announce details of leadership debate and open, transparent voting processhttps://t.co/yJ95ECPb1b #onpoli #pcpo
— Ontario PC Party (@OntarioPCParty) February 8, 2018
Statement from Ontario PC Party President Jag Badwal and Chair of the Leadership Election Organization Committee Hartley Lefton:
“This election will be the most inclusive and open in the history of the Ontario PC Party. Party members from every region of Ontario will be able to elect our next leader and the future Premier of Ontario.
“Our secure, online, two-stage verification process is a major step forward in selecting a new leader to unite the Ontario PCs and prepare for the 2018 election. Just like you show ID to vote in person, you will show ID to vote online. This process will allow for greater engagement of our members in voting and selecting our new leader.”
Key Dates:
February 15th – Leadership Debate
February 16th – Membership cut-off
February 20th (approximately) – Unique verification number mailed to Ontario PC members
March 2nd – March 8th – Voting period
March 10th – Leadership Convention
Ronald Reagan lessons in becoming a great communicator
The president emphasized that it was not just “my rhetoric or delivery” that carried him into the White House but that his speeches contained basic truths that the average American instinctively recognized, like the necessity of preserving individual freedom. “What I said simply made sense to the [man] on the street,” he said.
In his early career as a radio broadcaster in Iowa, he discovered a basic rule that he followed all his life: “Talk to your audience, not over their heads or through them. Don’t try to talk in a special language of broadcasting or even of politics, just use normal everyday words.”