For immediate release: Nov. 7, 2011
“I think she’s seen me” supress the vote: Sask Party senior staffer
REGINA – Today, a team of senior Sask Party staffers were seen removing NDP door-knockers in a seniors’ apartment complex at 1150 Broadway Avenue.
NDP campaigners spotted Terri Harris (deputy chief of staff to Premier Brad Wall), Rebecca Rogochewsky (media relations officer for Kathy Young, executive director of communications) and Steve Rennick (Sask Party caucus communications director) with a team totalling about seven people doing their part for the Sask Party.
The Sask Party operatives were removing NDP literature which helped the senior renters know where and where to vote, and offering rides to voters in the bad weather.
“I think she’s seen me,” said Rogochewsky upon being spotted by NDP team members, who had already noticed that literature seemed to be disappearing from doorknobs minutes after it was placed there.
“This is a disturbing method of vote suppression,” said NDP campaign manager Dale Schmeichel. “The seniors who reside in that complex would benefit from the NDP’s plan to make life more affordable. The Sask Party knows that – and this is a deliberate attack on those seniors’ rights.”
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NDP provincial campaign manager Dale Schmeichel will be available for comment at 1 p.m. in Regina today at 1122 Saskatchewan Drive (Tommy Douglas House).
For more information, contact Erin Morrison: 527-2084 or Kyall Glennie: 778-847-8324
