Trailer Park Boys’ Jim Lahey Go Vote Video: Tells students to vote in the 2011 Election – He’ll buy you a shot
Actor John Dunsworth has done a video with Saint Mary’s University to tell students why they’re wasting their opportunity to vote in the 2011 Canadian election.
Nick Logan, Global Maritimes: Saturday, April 16, 2011
HALIFAX, N.S. – Stupid kids aren’t going to vote, so why bother trying.
But, young people could have a lot of power if they actually did go to the polls on Election Day.
That’s the message Saint Mary’s University Students Association (SMUSA) and the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) hope to get out with an online campaign featuring celebrity Canucks.
SMUSA leaders wanted a truly prominent East Coaster to drive home the “Students Need to Vote” message with a whole lot of force.
So, who better than a foul-mouthed raging drunk from the “trailer park” to do the job?
Enter John Dunsworth, formerly known as Jim Lahey on Showcase’s “Trailer Park Boys.”
“Man, you guys could have a little of political weight if you put your little check mark on the day at the ballot box,” Lahey slurs.
“You wouldn’t have to worry about lowering tuition fees. You could say ‘Lower the damn tuition fees!” and they’d do it.”
This, before he goes on to bribe students with a Jägerbomb, a shot of Jägermeister and Red Bull, to vote.
Student association president Matt Anderson says the whole production was put together in a matter of hours.
Anderson only contacted Dunsworth a couple of days after the student association’s vice-president randomly bumped into the actor at a downtown Halifax restaurant.
“Jim went above and beyond the call of duty, got us a cameraman (Mike Swain). All we needed to do was write a script for him… And he went nuts, he went all out.”
Dunsworth, brought his own freestyle performance to the 1 min 30sec video, filmed on the SMU campus late Wednesday evening and posted it to YouTube around midnight.
If the clip goes viral, Anderson says, both Dunsworth and Swain agreed to work with SMUSA again.
“We’re using Facebook as best we can,” Anderson says of their efforts to get the video viewed by students from coast to coast.
Other Canuck celebrities such as Rick Mercer and George Stroumboulopoulos have said their piece online for studentsneedtovote.ca.
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