[pp.int.general] Canadian Pirate candidate the first one outside Europe?

[Jerry Weyer]

Thanks for your help. I will put in the information we got here and let the
journalist decide wheter Russia is in Europe or not :)

Best regards,

Jerry

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Justus Römeth <squig at dfpx.de> wrote:

>  Didn't want to take anything away from the Canadians, just thought that,
> when speaking to the press, it could be good to note that the students
> indeed have nothing to do with the movement PPI represents.
>
>
> On 08.11.10 12:59, Gregory Engels wrote:
>
>
>   On 08.11.2010, at 12:21, Justus Römeth wrote:
>
> What about the one who got elected in a town in Russia? Was that in the
> European part of the country?
>
>
>  He was not elected, but got "only" 20%. It was in the city of Shumerlya,
> and this is located in the center of the European part of russian
> federation. It is outside of European Union, but still on the European
> continent.
>
> Also, make sure to mention the students in the US, and that they are not
> affiliated with PPI or PPUS (I would, at least).
>
>
>  No point in making the achievement of the Canadian Pirate Party any
> smaller. Those Students don't share anything with the pirate movement but a
> name. But so does also the Pitsburgh Pirates (a US baseball team) Croyden
> Pirates (UK baseball), Portland Pirates (hockey), East Carolina Pirates and
> Hampton Pirates (university sports teams), Cornish Pirates (rugby), East
> Kilbride Pirates (UK football team), Orlando Pirates (South Africa
> football), Essex Pirates (basketball), Pool Pirates (UK racing team), or the
> football club of Bristol "Rovers" who are nicknamed Pirates.
>
>  it would be of no sense pointing to the sports trophies  of those
> "Pirates", even if they happened to be outside of europe.
>
>  What come to my mind, is that the Pirate Party in Peru got two people
> elected to the Commission for the Development of the Information Society
> (CODESI) http://www.codesi.gob.pe/
>
>
> Gregory Engels
> International Coordinator
> Pirate Party of Germany
>
>  mobile: +49 172 853 44 91
> skype:gregory.engels
> jabber:dichter at jabber.piratenpartei.de
>
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