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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

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

Wenzel said that he used trucks to assemble and place signs for Kevin Taylor, and that doing so allows people to support the campaign in ways over and above the maximum $5000 limit. Election act says that any money, personal property, real property or service provided to the candidate is a campaign contribution. So is this a violation of the election act? I don't know, that's for the courts do decide but I certainly think it's a reasonable argument.

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.

Well you could, and chances are nothing would come of it because nobody cares what anyone else says on youtube. I mean, have you read some of the comments on there? But again, we're not talking about making assumptions. We're looking at one person's comments about his own actions, and determining if those actions are a violation of the law. Again, nothing 'blind' about it.

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?

I've got no idea what the process is. Like I said, it's internal. You can speculate all you want about what methodology is being used to determine coverage. I'm not going to.