David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
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Methinks I must admit that even though I am no fan of any of them I believe my fellow taxpayers should be grateful that low-spending MLAs such as Cathy Rogers did not try to buy votes N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/many-mlas-leave-community-funding-on.html
#nbpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mla-leave-funding-on-table-1.5650642
Many MLAs leave community funding on the table
How your MLA spent $50,000 fund for community projects
· CBC News · Posted: Jul 16, 2020 5:00 AM AT
A majority of MLAs didn’t take full advantage of the $50,000-per-riding Community Investment Fund in the first year after it was created by the Higgs government. (Twitter/David Coon)
Members of the New Brunswick legislature looking to dispense a few more taxpayer dollars around their ridings in the coming months may have a hard time making the case for extra money.
A majority of MLAs didn't take full advantage of the $50,000-per-riding Community Investment Fund in the first year after it was created by the Higgs government.
Only two-thirds of the $2.4 million fund, available to MLAs from all parties, was spent in 2019-2020.
Figures obtained by CBC News show only two members spent their full $50,000 and only eight others came close.
"There were many members who were reluctant to use it for a variety of reasons," Regional Development Corporation Minister Andrea Anderson-Mason said during a legislative committee hearing in June.
"For us to go back to government to say, 'We need more money than we had last year,' when we only used 1.6 [million] out of 2.45 is a little bit challenging."
Money for non-profits, local governments
The Community Investment Fund allows all members of the legislature to pick projects in their ridings, subject to approval from the Regional Development Corporation. The projects must be with community non-profit groups or local governments.The lowest-spending MLA was Liberal Cathy Rogers of Moncton South, who used a mere $2,856 for a single project, the purchase of equipment for a wellness centre.
Rogers said that wasn't because of reluctance on her part. "I want to spend it," she said.
But the former finance minister said she was stymied by the criteria for the program, which doesn't allow projects relating to housing and homelessness, the top focus for many non-profit groups in her riding.
The lowest-spending MLA was Liberal Cathy Rogers of Moncton South, who used a mere $2,856 for a single project, the purchase of equipment for a wellness centre. (CBC)
"If anything has anything to do with housing, it does not qualify, and that's what the biggest need is here in Moncton South."
Organizations that already receive government funding also don't qualify, which eliminated several other worthy projects, she said.
Fredericton-York People's Alliance MLA Rick DeSaulniers used $44,503 of his funding on projects like a heat pump for a rural recreation centre, a defibrillator for another rec centre, a wheelchair ramp for a Legion hall and a water softener for a curling club.
He tried to divide his $50,000 into equal grants of $2,500, although some ending up being higher or lower. "I wanted to make it non-political and fair. … It was a really good process."
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Big cities, small spenders
Aside from Rogers, five other MLAs, four Progressive Conservatives and one Liberal, spent less than $10,000 last year: PC cabinet ministers Glen Savoie, Ted Flemming, Trevor Holder and Ernie Steeves and Moncton Centre Liberal MLA Rob McKee.All six represent ridings in the greater Moncton or Saint John areas.
DeSaulniers said there may be more eligible non-profit groups in need of funds in rural ridings like his. "It's easier for me to give it away than someone, say, in the centre of Moncton," he said.
But some MLAs representing urban areas had no trouble finding projects.
Liberal MLA Gerry Lowe spent $38,174 in Saint John Harbour and Riverview PC MLA Bruce Fitch delivered $38,419 to his riding.
Only two MLAs, Liberal Gilles LePage of Restigouche West and Progressive Conservative Bill Oliver of Kings Centre, managed to spend every last dime of the $50,000 they had to work with last year. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
And Fredericton North Liberal MLA Stephen Horsman was among the highest-spending members with $49,381 in projects.
One of the ridings with the lowest totals, Shediac Bay-Dieppe with $6,000, was without an MLA for more than half of the 2019-20 fiscal year. Former premier Brian Gallant resigned the seat last October.
But the lack of an MLA didn't hurt the Saint Croix riding, whose PC MLA Greg Thompson died last September. It received $36,132 in funding despite being without an elected member for almost the same amount of time.
According to the development corporation's website, MLAs are "consulted" about funding applications in their ridings but the agency can make decisions without them if they "refuse to respond in a timely manner to requests for funding."
Only two MLAs, Liberal Gilles LePage of Restigouche West and Progressive Conservative Bill Oliver of Kings Centre, managed to spend every last dime of the $50,000 they had to work with last year.
Eight other members, five PCs and three Liberals, came within $1,000 of maxing out their allocations.
Leaders avoid maxing out
Party leaders were active with their community fund allocations but didn't push them to their limits.Premier Blaine Higgs brought home a modest $28,768 to Quispamsis, Green Leader David Coon funded $37,884 in projects in Fredericton South and People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin had $32,102 of community fund spending in Fredericton-Grand Lake.
Earlier this year the government announced a new Community Investment Fund category for non-profit organizations hurt by COVID-19. In the 2020-21 fiscal year, groups can get up to $10,000 for coronavirus-related assistance but it comes out of the $50,000 total.
Premier Blaine Higgs brought home a modest $28,768 to Quispamsis, Green Leader David Coon funded $37,884 in projects in Fredericton South and People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin had $32,102 of CIF spending in Fredericton-Grand Lake. Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers is not an MLA. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
At June's committee hearing, Liberal MLA Francine Landry asked if the province will increase the total per riding because COVID-19 "has been putting a lot of stress on the amount that we will need to help … the usual events and initiatives that we do encourage in our communities."
Anderson-Mason said Regional Development Corporation was seeking "a little bit of flexibility" on the funding this year, which could include going beyond $50,000 per riding.
"We're absolutely willing to look at that and be flexible," she said. "If your region is suffering more, we need to know that and we need to be able to adjust accordingly."
She said the agency had received 225 applications for funding as of mid-June, a third of which were for COVID-19-related costs.
So far this year, it had approved 88 projects worth a total of $427,000, she said.
Andrea Anderson-Mason, the minister responsible for the Regional Development Corporation, says it was seeking 'a little bit of flexibility' on the funding this year, which could include going beyond $50,000 per riding. (Radio-Canada)
Rogers said this year she put out a more "sweeping" call for applications from eligible groups in Moncton South, and $28,000 in projects have already been approved with her help.
"I tell you, it's going to be different this year."
DeSaulniers says he's been fielding requests from organizations, particularly community halls and organizations that have seen revenues dry up because of events cancelled by the pandemic.
"I'm going to try to spend more than $50,000 if I can," he said. "I'll go as high as they let me."
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Commenting is now closed for this story.David Amos
Methinks this is a rather telling thing N'esy Pas?
Stephen Robertson
Cathy Roger's had a hard time finding a place to spend money.... that's new
David Amos
Reply to @Stephen Robertson: Oh So True
Douglas James
Let's not be naive. Politicians like to hold on to their cards until the last moment...in this case speculating as to when an election might be held so they can have a few 'gifts' to hand out just prior to the vote. No election, hold back the money. The pot will be refilled and the shell game will start all over again.
David Amos
Reply to @Douglas James: BINGO
Deja Vu Anyone???
https://lefteyex.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/cathy-rogers-hosts-1st-pre-budget-session-in-fat-fred-city-and-the-infamous-evil-french-blogger-chucky-leblanc-and-his-friends-attend/#comments
Cathy Rogers hosts 1st pre-budget session in Fat Fred City and the infamous evil French blogger Chucky Leblanc and his friends attend
You covered the matter better the Crown Corp commonly known as the CBC or the mindless wannabe “Journalist” who should have been prosecuted under Sections 300 and 319 years ago?
Below other than my comment posted with the CBC domain are their words not mine (FYI The Crown Corp blocks me about half the time while Chucky always blocks me but thus his blogging buddy Andre Faust has not witin YoutTube. Lets see if he maintains his sense of ethics and allows this email to be published within his blog.
Editors note: for holding Copywrite I have only included the links to the oriental stories referred to in his commentary
https://lefteyex.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/cathy-rogers-public-pre-budget-consultations-schedule/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/budget-consultation-meeting-fredericton-1.3854762
One could thing about the Liebranos holding public consultations is that people who are barred from the legislative buildings such as Chucky Leblanc can meet the sneaky politicians across the street and ask questions. Chucky proved that first thing this morning within his blog the day after CBC finally admitted knowing of his latest arrest by questionable Edmunston cops over a week ago.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/charles-leblanc-fredericton-police-libel-1.3853481
Whereas I am also barred from parliamentary properties (2 years before Chucky was) and none of Premier Gallant’s minions will even speak to me nor answer emails, methinks I will continue with my MO. I will answer the Liebranos questions about money in writing byway of an email. Then I will publish the aforesaid email within blog about a lawsuit against the Crown about the illegal barring of a citizen from the most important public buildings of all while on FIVE ballots seeking a seat within. I will let the political cards fall where they in Canada’s “Have Not Province” as I head back to court to argue the Crown in Federal Court.
Clearly you did not vote for mean old me when I ran against your old pal Andy Baby Scott in 2006 EH Andre?
Trust that Curtis and even Andy Scott’s postman told me lots of interesting stories about the north side when they signed my nomination forms before Xmass 2005. its kinda funny to me that your all knowing buddies such as Davey Coon or Chucky Leblanc or your Liebrano pals such as Andy Scott or DougyTyler or Lenny Hoytwhom I believe is still Leanne Murray’s law firm partner didn’t tell you some things about mean old me before you strange “Occupy” dudes decided to pick fight with me. Anyway I doubt a couple of other dudes of mcInnes in Cooper Richard Bell or Franky Boy McKenna would not have said much though. However you people must have at least read the documents Chucky stole from me in 2004 and gave to your pals Rashid and Barnett instead of giving them to his buddy Brad Green like he promised. Correct?.
And as far as Occupy, I have no knowledge of anyone having picking a fight with you. That isn’t to say that there wasn’t any conflicts between you and some members of occupy. If so I was not aware.
People don’t necessarily tell me everything … 🙂
I knew Charles just before Occupy, The first time I met Charles was on a story he did on a child with aspergers, being confined to the library rather than the class room.
http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2016/11/cathy-rogers-hosts-1st-pre-budget.html
http://jafaust.blogspot.ca/2014/02/epistemology-as-it-relates-to-journalism.html
Furthermore READ paragraph 83 of the lawsuit you people in Fat Fred City make fun of then ask your hero Trudeau “The Younger” about his sunny ways and why he didn’t speak up as soon as Chucky Leblanc’s old blogging buddy Mr Baconfat first published those words in 2009
http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over five years after he began his bragging:
January 13, 2015
This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
December 8, 2014
Why Canada Stood Tall!
Friday, October 3, 2014
Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And Stupid Justin Trudeau
Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute” Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind. The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic, professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway campaign of 2006.
What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent, support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
JAMIE IRVING DID INDEED HAVE THE BLOG SHUT DOWN!!!!
https://oldmaison.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/jamie-irving-did-indeed-have-the-blog-shut-down/
JAMIE IRVING AND LAWYERS WILL SHUT DOWN THIS BLOG IN A FEW DAYS!!!!
https://oldmaison.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/jamie-irving-and-lawyers-will-shut-down-this-blog-in-a-few-days/
WHO THE HELL IS THIS IRVING EMPLOYEE SCOTT AGNEW JERK IS ANYWAY????
https://oldmaison.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/who-the-hell-is-this-irving-employee-scott-agnew-jerk-is-anyway/
JAMIE IRVING AND LAWYERS TO SHUT DOWN THIS BLOG???
https://oldmaison.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/jamie-irving-and-lawyers-to-shut-down-this-blog/
This is very serious stuff!!!! The Irvings are always printing lying stuff about me in their papers and now this???
I hope that Jamie Irving knows that I can continue a battle without a blog???
The Irvings use my ordeal in their paper and I can’t blog it???
Old Germany again???
Here’s the email-
Charles, I’m afraid you have been warned. We have repetitively asked you NOT to violate copyright laws by republishing articles from CanadEast without permission. At each warning you have thumbed your nose at our request and flagrantly continued to violate the law. At each instance we have kept detailed records and screen shots of your violations and your comments about them. There are no more chances.
We are now in contact with Goggle, who take copyright violation very seriously, and I’m afraid you can probably expect them to revoke your Blogger access. Please DO NOT even try to rant that its the Irvings out to bring you down again because you have nobody to blame but yourself. You have violated our copyrights over ten times in the past year and we simply cannot tolerate this unlawful behaviour anymore. You were politely warned and chose not to rectify the situation. Now you will have to suffer the consequences just like everybody else.
Sincerely,
Scott Agnew
Web Services Manager
CanadaEast Interactive
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/01/perhaps-rcmp-fat-fred-city-finest-andre.html
—– Original Message —–
From: Agnew, Scott
To: David Amos
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:38 PM
Subject: RE: regarding your emails and phone calls to Yahoo! Inc
Executive staff (KMM58965988V19364L0KM)
David, David, David. I thought you had learned your lesson about
sending unsolicited email. I DO NOT want to go through this with you
again.
Remove me immediately from your email list. Failure to do so will
result in my contacting your email provider (Google this time) and
will likely result in your account being shut down again, just like
last year at Yahoo. Also, since this is not the first time you have
pulled this stunt and since you have been asked nicely several times
to remove me from your list, another email from you will be regarded
as harassment and I will be contacting the RCMP this time. Considering
your past history and all the previous emails I’ve saved, I don’t
think you want that to happen.
This is the only warning I will send you. Do NOT reply to this email.
Sincerely,
K. Scott Agnew
Publisher, Kings County Record
Phone: (506) 433-1070
Fax: (506) 432-3532
Cell: (506) 850-4939
http://www.kingscorecord.com
http://govinjustice.blogspot.ca/2009/03/my-life-was-destroyed-by-justice-system.html
Group studies its legal options
Early immersion | Reversal of decision wanted ASAP
By JENNIFER DUNVILLE
dunville.jennifer@dailygleaner.com
Published Tuesday April 8th, 2008
Appeared on page A1
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Alison J. Menard menard@nbnet.nb.ca wrote:
Mr. Amos
Please stop communicating with me immediately by telephone, cellular,
and email and/or by any other means of communication. Your contacts with me are unsolicited and unwanted and I am asking you to cease and desist.
Please also take this as your notice that should you continue to harass me, I will make a complaint to the police and pursue thismatter through the criminal courts. I am a criminal lawyer and I am very aware of what constitutes criminal harassment and/or threats.
I also have an understanding of how you operate because of information provided to me by my husband, Scott Agnew. I can tell you that I will not tolerate it.
Yours truly
Alison Ménard
A little Deja Vu for Chucky Cry Baby Leblanc and his Liebrano pals
https://oldmaison.wordpress.com//?s=david+amos&search=Go
Friday
Mar 14 2008
These former high profile Liberals are confuse when I say – The New Brunswick Liberal Party might become the first Fascist Party in Canada???
I never had any problem with party members from any political parties.
Not until the confrontation at Sweetwaters.
This is very serious stuff.
Once you sent people to beat up members of the Party because they have a different point of view from the rest?
Well? I have a problem with that one.
Frank McKenna would have fired anyone who would even think of doing such an act.
One thing is certain? Right after the LIberals tells me that nothing will be done?
I’m going right to the Police and I might find myself a good lawyer and sue the Party.
This is a very serious matter and Fascism must be defeated here in Canada!
Stay tuned!!!
My God?? Did I just pull a David Amos???
—– Original Message —–
From: Agnew, Scott
To: David Amos
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:38 PM
Subject: RE: regarding your emails and phone calls to Yahoo! Inc
Executive staff (KMM58965988V19364L0KM)
David, David, David. I thought you had learned your lesson about
sending unsolicited email. I DO NOT want to go through this with you
again.
Remove me immediately from your email list. Failure to do so will
result in my contacting your email provider (Google this time) and
will likely result in your account being shut down again, just like
last year at Yahoo. Also, since this is not the first time you have
pulled this stunt and since you have been asked nicely several times
to remove me from your list, another email from you will be regarded
as harassment and I will be contacting the RCMP this time. Considering
your past history and all the previous emails I’ve saved, I don’t
think you want that to happen.
This is the only warning I will send you. Do NOT reply to this email.
Sincerely,
K. Scott Agnew
Publisher, Kings County Record
Phone: (506) 433-1070
Fax: (506) 432-3532
Cell: (506) 850-4939
http://www.kingscorecord.com
The following year for shits and giggles i posted the text of the news articla within one Chucky’s Cry Baby Leblanc’s first blogs and there it remains to this very day
Enjoy Mr Faust. if nothing else the Irvings will explain me and my bikes to you N’esy Pas?
http://oldmaison.blogspot.ca/2005/09/sussex-gold-found-and-bernard-lords.html
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield
“If you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it.”
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron’s Liberalswent left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices. Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’ party leaders. Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic relief with quirky answers. “I was raised with a gun,” Amos said in response to the question of thenational gun registry. “Nobody’s getting mine and I’m not paying 10 cents for it.”
Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his party’splatform with regard to gun control. “It was ill advised but well intentioned,” Herron said. “No matter what side of the house I am on, I’m voting against it.” Pat Hanratty agreed there were better places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters shouldn’t have been penalized by this gun registry,” he said.
The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in front of Moore. “Read that,” Herron said to Moore, referring to the voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second readings of the bill in 1995. “He voted against it when it counted, at final count,” Moore said. “We needa government with courage to register sex offenders rather than register the property of law abiding citizens.”
The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and women heckling from the Conservative side. “Shut up John,” one woman yelled. “How can you talk about selling out?” a man yelled whenHerron spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy Armstrong weighed in at one point. “You’re out of touch,” Armstrong yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged Armstrong to a public debate of their own. “Talk is cheap. Any time, anyplace,” Armstrong responded.
As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate, candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making process for the June 28 vote.
Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his favourite possessions—motorcycles.
McKnight/KCR
The Unconventional Candidate
David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
By Gisele McKnight
FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.”
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada.
One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail to meet Elections Canada requirements.
When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his favourite place to do so—Fundy.
Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians.
“I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries,” he said. “The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum.”
The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in 1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he needed to change his life.
“I lost my faith in mankind,” he said. “People go through that sometimes in midlife.”
So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952 Panhead motorcycle.
“Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact) experiencing the milk of human kindness,” he said. “This is how you renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask for anything, but you take what they offer.”
For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs and conversation all over North America.
Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls himself.
He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist rather than a biker, a “fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed individual,” a “pissed-off Maritimer” rather than an activist, a proud Canadian and a “wild colonial boy.”
Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.
“But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name,” he said. “It’s alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?”
Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
“I didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door interrupting my dinner,” he said. “If people are interested, they can call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats.”
And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
“I won’t take any donations,” he said. “Just try to give me some. It’s not about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about.”
What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.
“The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues,” he said. “I’m death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window.
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
“There are no wasted votes,” he said. “I want people like me, especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right. Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote.”
Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have your X by his name.
“I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and say, ‘what the hell.’”
I mean I don’t sit all day in front of my blogs and youTubes, there are times that I can go several months without looking at either. If I haven’t uploaded something chances are I won’t view it until the next upload.