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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
I will admit to having held a PC membership in the past. Historically in much of Alberta if you wanted your vote to count the only way to do that was to buy a PC membership and vote in their nomination contests.
As for my post that you quoted, I am not suggesting that the majority of the WAP supporters have migrated from the NDP, I am just questioning why it is an issue. I can't imagine any new party forming that didn't draw its supporters from from existing parties and in Alberta we have had only one party dominate for the last 40 years. I would find it odd if a party gained popularity without attracting members from the PC's and don't see the problem with that.
As for the differences between the WRA and the PC's I think they are quite clear although I am not sure if I can post anything to convince someone to change their vote from Liberal to Wildrose.
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Sure, but when virtually all of the supporters from the new party are from one main old party you have to see why the topic would come up?
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Originally Posted by First Lady
You'd be correct. There are a great deal of people involved who have never been active in politics at all.
I think the important take away from the WRP budget is that it's balanced and doesn't cut our sustainability fund in half.
I don't recall you being a PC supporter, where is your party's budget?
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I'm a UFA. I don't have a candidate to vote for at all this time around actually. I just take a look at whats been presented and go from there. The fact is, the WRA didn't release a budget at all. You might call it that, but who knows? We are lead to believe that your plan is balanced and you have ways to pay for it, but truthfully this wasn't released that I've seen. I read the full 14 page document you linked earlier and thats not a budget. Thats a few high points strung together to go along with a press release. Basically voters are left to wonder whether the budget would actually be balanced, or what it would even look like. We could take the word of a group of former conservatives I suppose, but I'm not particularly inclined to do that.
I just refer to the PC budget because its basically fine; I do have some misgivings about how they intend to fund some of their goals and think that the party that has actually addressed these issues is the Liberal party. The WRA tries to make the deficit an issue, but seriously its a non-issue. The deficit is covered. Do they have to spend the "rainy day fund" to do that, yes. The fact is though, WE JUST HAD A RAINY DAY! Not sure why that is so hard for Wildrose supporters to grasp, but my guess is that they don't want to admit that in a desperate run for power.