ONTARIO! STOP TAKING THE BAIT!
Bike lanes, insults, highway tunnels!
All distractions! Don't take the bait!
Old style protest doesn't cut it in
the post-shame political hellscape.
Let's turn the tables. Brand Ford.
Put HIM in reaction mode. How?
#ChantHimOut
Doug Ford's weakness with voters is CORRUPTION.
Let's make CORRUPTION Doug Ford's BRAND.
A recent Abacus poll conducted for the Toronto Star found that 41% of respondents think Ford is corrupt. Only 25% of respondents called him honest. (Robert Benzie, Toronto Star, August 30 2024)
For a guy they call Mr Teflon, those are pretty sticky stats.
Our strategy is clear! His electoral weakness is his corruption. We need to work that widespread voter concern and make corruption DOUG FORD'S BRAND.
In so doing, we reassure people that his behaviour IS unacceptable, even in 2024. We make corruption bad again.
We use a new grassroots protest tactic. One that's more personal, fun, creative and marketable. We #ChantHimOut
Basically, we're talking about bespoke chants, lovingly handcrafted for Ford. Each one carefully curated to highlight the grift that is seemingly his stock-in-trade.
We start online....record a chant or two and share. We ask our friends, co-workers, dinner guests, our activist groups to do the same.
Then we take it live in towns and cities around Ontario. Dozens, hundreds, maybe more, gather to personally call out Doug for his shit. Do you know how fun that would be? Do you know how that would terrify the Tories?
Soon corruption BECOMES the narrative! And Doug and the Conservatives face a much rougher road to reelection.
Chants to get us started
Doug Ford is a crook
Take a closer look
Doug Ford, corruption lingers
Shake his hand, count your fingers.
Doug Ford thinks you're a sucker
Let's defeat that motherfucker.
Doug Ford, he's your foe
Unless you're at his Stag & Doe
Doug Ford he tells lies
Don't believe his alibis
Doug Ford, he sold hash
Gonna make our province crash.
Doug Ford is a thief
Dirty liar and a cheat.
Doug Ford, always thieving,
we'll be happy when he's leaving.
About & Contact
I am Patricia Chartier. An Ontarian like you, but maybe more pigheaded. Big believer in grassroots democracy. I cannot abide being taken for a fool. Retired, I live in Toronto.
We are only as powerless as we tell ourselves we are. I hope you'll join me in rediscovering our grassroots power and laying the groundwork for the Conservatives' defeat at the polls.