This time, it’s personal. In the grand scheme of things, I’m new here. I started following politics in 2015 and I wasn’t overly involved in political party processes. I was an outsider in 2017 and I made a volunteer cry at my second political convention because I didn’t […]
“Sour grapes” usually refers to someone who suddenly finds something undesirable because they cannot have it. This week, Prab Gill, MLA for Calgary-Greenway, was accused of having a case of sour grapes because he lashed out at the “crooked party politics” of the United Conservative Party. A day […]
Another Wildroser bit the dust on the weekend. Rick Strankman, UCP MLA for Drumheller – Stettler lost his bid for a candidate nomination in the riding he’s held since 2012. Strankman is the first sitting MLA to be defeated in a nomination contest and only the fifth legacy […]
We have seen other parties and the media call them “bozo eruptions” but the United Conservative Party isn’t a “new” Party. They aren’t run by political novices with no funding either. And they aren’t having “bozo eruptions”. Fintan O’Toole wrote a fantastic piece for the Irish Times in […]
S. Todd Beasley has been in the news for the past couple of weeks but that isn’t new to him. Mr. Beasley held a Facebook Live event tonight and at one point there were 135 people viewing. There will be many more after his story gets out. I […]
United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney took Monday off after a United Conservative public relations disaster on the weekend. First, Prab Gill, MLA for Calgary-Greenway, announced he would step down as the caucus whip pending the investigation into ballot stuffing on Thursday. Then he resigned from the caucus on […]
Another addition to the seemingly never-ending saga of the UCP nomination races came on Saturday when apparent front-runner S. Todd Beasley in Brooks-Medicine Hat either was asked to withdraw or resigned over “inappropriate posts” he “makes no apologies for“. According to a recent Facebook post by Darryl Kropielnicki, […]
A former PC candidate once said that the most difficult thing to get from the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta was a nomination. Nominations were coveted golden tickets to employment if one was lucky enough to be able to put their name on a blue sign. The shade […]