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  • Kennedy was hired on as a “ten-percenter”, or an on-call employee, and because of his experience and expertise with FedEx, was put to work immediately with a promise of full time employment as “just soon as something opened up”.

    FedEx Stories 2007

  • The Liberal Party moved a motion in the House of Commons today that would, if passed, encourage the Conservatives to show leadership in cutting government waste by rolling back over $1 billion in partisan expenditures, including "ten-percenter" mass mailings.

    Liberal Party of Canada RSS News Feed 2010

  • Opposition MPs successfully passed a motion Tuesday to scrap the so-called ten-percenter practice that allows MPs to send one-page partisan leaflets into other MPs 'ridings in numbers equivalent to 10% of their own constituents.

    Edmonton Sun 2010

  • Conservative MPs accounted for 62% of ten-percenter printing costsin 2008-09, compared to

    Liberal Party of Canada RSS News Feed 2010

  • NDP Leader Jack Layton launched a blistering tirade against "King Stephen Harper" only to waffle when it came down to whether his party would actually support the ten-percenter ban behind the closed doors of the Board of Internal Economy meetings.

    Progressive Bloggers HarperBizarro 2010

  • OTTAWA - The Liberal Party moved a motion in the House of Commons today that would, if passed, encourage the Conservatives to show leadership in cutting government waste by rolling back over $1 billion in partisan expenditures, including "ten-percenter" mass mailings.

    Liberal Party of Canada RSS News Feed 2010

  • "I have received an undertaking from our Conservative resource group that, in the future, they will proofread more carefully and nuance more appropriately any ten-percenter mail pieces that are sent out under my name," he said.

    London Free Press 2009

  • I've just received my weekly ten-percenter attack flyer from the Conservative Party.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • This is OUR inauguration and Warren represents only about ten percent of the population, and after eight years of Bush we don’t need another ten-percenter.

    What the Hell Was Obama Thinking Inviting Rick Warren to Give the Invocation at OUR Inauguration? 2008

  • Kevin Gaudet, the association's federal director, said the Liberal's motion to end the ten-percenter practice "rocks.

    Toronto Sun 2010

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