{"id":11716,"date":"2015-08-26T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2015-08-26T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:48:32","slug":"campaign-signs-are-not-misleading-says-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/campaign-signs-are-not-misleading-says-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign signs are not misleading, says candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Conservative candidate\u2019s signs \u2018misleading\u2019, August 6)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am pleased to respond to Mr. Kean\u2019s concerns regarding the use of \u201cre-elect\u201d versus \u201celect\u201d on my campaign signs.<br \/>\nHaving served as a Member of Parliament for the last four years, I am currently seeking re-election in the new riding of Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill, where I live. In accordance with Elections Canada rules and regulations, all Members elected prior to the current campaign can use \u201cre-elect\u201d on their election materials.<br \/>\nAs a result of riding re-distribution, a process which added three new ridings in York Region and a total of thirty across the country, many of the last Parliament\u2019s MPs are seeking re-election in electoral districts that have been either re-defined or newly created. Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill is one such riding, having been formed from parts of the former Newmarket-Aurora, Oak Ridges-Markham, and Richmond Hill ridings.<br \/>\nUsing re-elect over elect provides voters with important information about their candidate choices. To infer that an individual, who was a sitting MP prior to the election call was not really elected as Mr. Kean would suggest, is misleading.<br \/>\nWhile I have not yet had the privilege of representing the wonderful residents of Aurora, I can assure them that should I be given that honour; I will give 110% of my time and effort, 7 days a week on their behalf &#8211; just as I have done for the constituents I have represented since 2011.<br \/>\nAnyone wishing to speak to me further on this, or any other matter, is welcome to contact me by phone at 905-918-1880 or by email at info@voteforcostas.com. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Costas Menegakis<br \/>\nConservative Candidate<br \/>\nAurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Conservative candidate\u2019s signs \u2018misleading\u2019, August 6) I am pleased to respond to Mr. Kean\u2019s concerns regarding the use of \u201cre-elect\u201d versus \u201celect\u201d on my campaign signs. Having served as a Member of Parliament for the last four years, I am currently seeking re-election in the new riding of Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill, where I live. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}