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Originally Posted by octothorp
What exactly is that line that you skirt in terms of free speech? Speaking up when you believe that one of your opponents is advocating actions that are, in your view, in violation of election law? Blind accusations? Hardly. It's an accusation based on video that we all saw, put against the elections act that we all have access to. It's about as far from blind as you could get. Ultimately, you've already decided that there's a line that Nenshi's comments have crossed. But the whole reason that we have defamation laws is to set out what those lines are. If the courts find Nenshi defamed Wenzel, his comments went too far. If the courts find that they were true and fair, then they clearly didn't go too far.
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Ok, I've read the transcript of the secret meeting, and I've seen where Wenzel talks about donating campaign funds to builder friendly candidates, unless I'm missing something there's nothing illegal about that. So would someone be able to point out to me where the advocacy of breaking election laws is. Maybe the transcipt is missing something henous
In terms of free speech you can make opinions, however where it crosses the line is that you can't throw out blind accusations or allegations that can be potentially damaging.
I can't look at a picture of some guys wife and go on youtube and state in my opinion that he's a wife beater because she has a black eye.
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Originally Posted by octothorp
As for the public funds, it's a 'meh' issue for me. The city has an internal process that they use to determine it, and whatever conclusion that internal process comes to is fine. It's the least interesting part of the process. Though I fully expect outrage from the Sun and some commenters on here if the city decides it's covered, because people with no view of the process can claim that something wildly inappropriate was done. I strongly suspect that when it's all over, Wenzel's going to be paying those legal fees anyway.
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Nenshi was a candidate, he was not speaking on behalf of the city, he was campaigning. So sorry but its not a meh issue in terms of who covers.
Please enlightening me on the process?