{"id":9701,"date":"2009-08-06T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9701"},"modified":"2009-08-06T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:57:43","slug":"leanne-pelosi-in-cubed-contest-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9701","title":{"rendered":"Leanne Pelosi In Cubed Contest Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nissan-0806.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nissan-0806.jpg','popup','width=605,height=388,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nissan-0806-tm.jpg\" height=\"128\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Nissan 0806\" \/><\/a>When <strong>Nissan Canada<\/strong> decided to give away 50 new Nissan Cubes their advertising agency <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalc.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Capital C<\/a><\/strong> thought it would be cool to have a &#8220;social media&#8221; contest and use snowboarder<strong> Leanne Pelosi<\/strong> as one of their three English language judges.<\/p>\n<p>Contestents were to use social media to show of their &#8220;creative skills&#8221; and then a panel of judges would select 50 winners who would drive away in a brand new car. After the winners of the cars were announced on June 23, 2009 a website <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopediadramatica.com\/Hypercube\" target=\"_blank\">EncyclopediaDramatica<\/a><\/strong> noticed that of all the entries across Canada, three of Leanne&#8217;s friends happened to win new cars, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingmag.ca\/english\/news\/marketer\/article.jsp?content=20090805_174002_6332\" target=\"_blank\">Marketing Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Leanne Pelosi in particular has connections to at least three winners, one of whom, <strong>Jeff Keenan<\/strong>, was alleged by Encyclopedia Dramatica to be her boyfriend. . . While Nissan claims the two do not even reside in the same province, there is a significant, easily verifiable connection between judge and contestant. Pelosi once headed up snowboard video production company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runwayfilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Runway Films<\/a><\/strong>, which listed Keenan as its primary contact. Pelosi also appeared in snowboard videos directed by Keenan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other two winners who Leanne knows were <strong>Robin Van Gyn<\/strong>, and skier <strong>Anthony Bornonowski<\/strong>. Then again, Leanne knows a lot of really talented people. . . <\/p>\n<p>[Link: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingmag.ca\/english\/news\/marketer\/article.jsp?content=20090805_174002_6332\" target=\"_blank\">Marketing Mag<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shredbetties.com\/articles\/story\/leanne_pelosi_snowboarder_and_car_theif\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shredbetties<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nissan Canada decided to give away 50 new Nissan Cubes their advertising agency Capital C thought it would be cool to have a &#8220;social media&#8221; contest and use snowboarder Leanne Pelosi as one of their three English language judges. Contestents were to use social media to show of their &#8220;creative skills&#8221; and then a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9707,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions\/9707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}