{"id":1805,"date":"2017-06-20T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2017-06-20T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T18:28:57","slug":"ronan-the-transvestite-wants-whatcott-prosecuted-for-wrecking-his-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Ronan the transvestite wants Whatcott prosecuted for wrecking his campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronan the transvestite wants Whatcott prosecuted for wreckin<\/a>g his campaign<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Post\"<\/a>by Bill Whatcott<\/a><\/strong> \u00bb Sun May 14, 2017 2:50 am<\/p>\n

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\nRonan Oger (calls himself Morgane) doing photo op on election night. Ronan blames Bill Whatcott for “harming” his election campaign and is seeking to prosecute Bill for saying he is a 100% biological male who is sorely in need of Jesus and is completely completely unfit to serve in the provincial legislature.<\/p>\n

“God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
\nGenesis 1:27<\/p>\n

Morgane Oger says she\u2019s unlikely to defeat Sam Sullivan in final count
\nBut close race in her riding shows trans candidates have a real chance of winning, she says
\nPublished on Thu, May 11, 2017 9:02 pm.
\nJames Goldie
\nDaily Xtra<\/strong><\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/www.dailyxtra.com\/vancouver\/news … unt-220859<\/a><\/p>\n

After a rollercoaster of an election night, when at times she seemed poised to become the first transgender person elected to Canadian public office, Morgane Oger is coming to terms with the fact this is not likely going to be the case.<\/p>\n

The preliminary election results in Vancouver-False Creek show BC Liberal incumbent Sam Sullivan ahead of the NDP\u2019s Oger by 560 votes. Although absentee ballots have yet to be counted, Oger acknowledges it would be a long shot for those votes to sway the election in her favour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndications are that Sam Sullivan won this election. And we will really know on the 22nd [of May] by how much,\u201d she says. \u201cWe need to see what the final count is.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an email to Xtra, Andrew Watson, communications manager for Elections BC, says his office estimates there were roughly 176,000 absentee ballots cast in this year\u2019s election province-wide. It\u2019s not known how many of those ballots were cast in Vancouver-False Creek.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have an electoral district breakdown yet but will publish one before final count starts on May 22,\u201d Watson says.<\/p>\n

In the wake of May 9\u2019s preliminary results, Oger says she\u2019s staying positive. Like their respective parties more broadly, the race between Oger and Sullivan was neck and neck for most of the night. One candidate would take the lead only to later be overtaken by the other.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I had every emotion. There was this elation that [our campaign] had worked, and then this horror as it went from \u2018it worked\u2019 to \u2018it failed,\u2019 and then relief that it worked and then dismay again,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

At 11pm, with just six ballot boxes remaining, Oger was leading by 48 votes. She and her team came to NDP headquarters preparing for what looked like victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one point I was practising my speech \u2014 and then at another point I was looking at the numbers and it said the votes were 100 percent counted,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

But despite the outcome so far in Sullivan\u2019s favour, Oger says her campaign can be proud of how close she came to winning as an NDP candidate in a Liberal stronghold.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis riding was considered almost un-winnable,\u201d she says. \u201cIt means finally in Canada a transgender person can \u2014 if properly supported and properly engaging with the experience required to have credibility as a candidate \u2014 a transgender person can take a fight to [an establishment] candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nRonan Oger heads to NDP headquarters on election night to concede his defeat. Bill Whatcott delivered 1500 flyers denouncing Ronan’s attempt to become Canada’s first transvestite MLA. Bill’s flyers were widely shared on social media and in e-mail mass mailings. Because the race was so close it is possible Bill Whatcott’s flyers played an important role in assuring the gender confused homofascist Ronan did not attain the inluential possition of MLA for Vancouver-False Creek. In fact by keeping Ronan out of office Bill’s flyers might have also kept the hard left pro-abortion\/homofascist NDP from taking power in BC as things are so close one seat could literally make the difference between an NDP or Liberal government.<\/p>\n

Oger attributes the closeness of the race to public fatigue with the BC Liberals. She also suggests that her work on a broad range of issues, such as education, and her background in the tech sector made her relatable to a larger constituency. She believes her advocacy work on trans and human rights issues alone would not have been enough to propel her to office.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to appreciate that being an advocate for a tiny percentage of the population is not enough to get elected. One has to have done things that touch the mainstream,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is what I encourage the transgender community and the LGBT community to do. Touch the mainstream. It\u2019s the mainstream that elects you.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says it\u2019s unclear what impact a series of transphobic flyers plastered throughout her riding may have had on her chances of being elected, but she describes them as \u201chorrifying\u201d and \u201cdestabilizing\u201d to her campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey forced us to focus on that some days. And that was detrimental, that harmed us,\u201d she says, referring to time diverted to speaking with the police, filing a complaint with Elections BC, and crisis-management team meetings. She says the team was forced to cancel some engagements while dealing with the poster issue. \u201cCancelling an engagement within the last 10 days of an election \u2014 that has consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, though neither Oger nor the other three openly trans candidates were elected May 9, Oger says this election has been groundbreaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very encouraged within our community to see the love and the hope,\u201d she says. \u201cI hope that everybody appreciates this was a major win for the transgender and the LGBT community, that we can be satisfied that anybody can run who\u2019s credible.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ronan the transvestite wants Whatcott prosecuted for wrecking his campaign by Bill Whatcott \u00bb Sun May 14, 2017 2:50 am Ronan Oger (calls himself Morgane) doing photo op on election night. Ronan blames Bill Whatcott for “harming” his election campaign … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[983,94,359,982,569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}