Posted: 30 Oct 2009 08:38 AM PDT

October 30, 2009

EDMONTON, Alberta — AutoCanada Income Fund named a new chief operating officer earlier this week, and appointed to the position is Kelly O'Connell, who has served in various senior management roles in the auto and RV industries for more than 25 years.

O'Connell has most recently been offering consulting services — with an emphasis on training and development — to various dealers, managers, sales personnel and OEMs.

In his new position, O'Connell's duties include dealership operations including sales, service, training and process.

Additionally, AutoCanada announced that vice president of finance Joe Medina and Dan Wincentaylo, vice president of fixed operations, are taking positions with Edmonton's Crosstown Chrysler dealership, the fund's largest store.

"We are very pleased that Mr. O'Connell has joined our group, bringing a depth of dealership experience and a record of success that will greatly assist us as we seek to adapt and prosper in these difficult and changed times," said Pat Priestner, chairman and chief executive officer of AutoCanada.

"In addition, we are fortunate in our ability to have Mr. Medina and Mr. Wincentaylo taking on the responsibility of managing our largest dealership in our group, which is a very important source of revenue and profit to AutoCanada and to which we look to leadership for all of our group's operations," he added.

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October 2004 Archives - Feministing

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 09:39 PM PDT

Young women have been particularly active in mobilizing voters this election, from working with women's organizations to creating political panties. But what about organizing for the election using just what women have traditionally been objectified for—our sexuality?

Several groups have cropped up recently that focus on getting out the vote by, well, putting out.

Votergasm.org, tells "young people everywhere to have sex with voters on Election Night, and to withhold sex from non-voters until the next presidential election," and hopes to "send 100,000 first-time 18 to 25 year old voters to polls for the 2004 elections, and to catalyze 250,000 orgasms by the morning of November 3." Way to aim high!

The group's publicist, Michelle Collins, says in a Salon.com article today that young Americans aren't voting enough, and aren't fucking enough. "If there's anything that's really going to speak to America's youth, it's saying that voting is as important as sex, as fun, as American."

Sounds sketchy as hell, but their strategy seems to be working pretty well. Since the site's launch, they have received more than half million unique visitors, and more than 25,000 people have pledged to vote (and have sex) on election day.

Another site that is using sex as a means to political participation is FTheVote.com, a project of the Carbon Defense League (CDL), which Lauryn wrote about back in July. FTheVote's theory is that liberals are simply hotter, and we should be using that to influence the election. Essentially, we should be having sex with conservatives in exchange for their vote:

Believe it or not, even the most seemingly deeply rooted right-wing ideologue can be manipulated by sex. As we all know, the sex drive is a powerful beast that has the potential to change people. People lie for sex, they cheat for sex, they even kill for sex - and you can be sure that they will change the way they think (and therefore vote) for sex. All you need to be armed with are your sexy progressive values, a razor-sharp wit, your genitalia, and a mindset that doesn't mind taking one for the team.

Unlike Votergasm—which actually is planning an election night party and looking for bar where people can easily have sex—FTheVote is just a joke:

The goal of the CDL is to present information and content normally filtered from a general audience's view through satire, humor, and trickery.

Another joke site that I found last month is little more vulgar (if you can imagine that), called Porn for Progress, which put out a Porn for Kerry DVD. I won't even go into the actors' fake names…

I'm at the point where I'll take what I can get in terms of folks organizing against the current administration. And I'm all for fun, funny, types of activism. But I know that these actions also have the potential to piss people off and make a good majority of folks not take our voices seriously.

So do websites like these—jokes or not—reinforce the idea that the only thing women have to offer in politics (or in general) is their sexuality? Or is this just a fun, harmless way to get people involved in a process that they might not otherwise engage in?

Let's hear it…

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Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:53 PM PDT

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