{"id":12012,"date":"2015-09-23T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2015-09-23T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:04:10","slug":"menekagis-campaign-says-email-was-fraudulent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/menekagis-campaign-says-email-was-fraudulent\/","title":{"rendered":"Menekagis campaign says email was fraudulent"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite York Region bylaws stating election campaign signs should not hit Regional streets before Monday, September 21, candidates in both of Aurora\u2019s ridings had their signs dotting Yonge Street on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

But, did the campaign of Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill Conservative candidate try to jump the gun ahead of the pack? His campaign says no.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, The Auroran was included in a mass email to over 140 campaign supports and volunteers purporting to be from the \u201cTeam Lead\u201d of Mr. Menegakis\u2019 campaign with the subject line \u201cSign Blitz and Bylaw Enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust an update: If you do get stopped by a Regional by-law enforcement officer, just tell them you are unaware of the Regional By-law that states that Signs on Regional road, the ones we are putting up this weekend, are not permitted until 21 Sept. Good luck! Go team!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAre not permitted until 21 Sept\u201d was underlined. <\/p>\n

By Monday, however, Jackie Cousins, the communications person for Mr. Menegakis\u2019 campaign said the email did not come from their side and the \u201cmatter of the fraudulent email\u201d has been forwarded to Elections Canada for their review.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something we have to figure out right away,\u201d she told The Auroran. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you where they would have gotten [the email list] from. I am not sure who is even on that list. We will be checking into it, but the email itself is fraudulent. That is incredible. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe email was not from our campaign. Somebody is impersonating us. Obviously, this is a set up\u2026and we have to track down who this may have come from.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite York Region bylaws stating election campaign signs should not hit Regional streets before Monday, September 21, candidates in both of Aurora\u2019s ridings had their signs dotting Yonge Street on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-37K","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-01 23:47:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012","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=12012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}