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Originally Posted by Delgar
If by legit you mean, a genuine donation meant to stop the scourge of the Wildrose as they were surging at the expense of the PC's, as Katz' staff has suggested, well, unfortunately we live in a world where some people might believe that. But that never happened. This was a massive donation in the weaning hours of the campaign just after the Wildrose screwed themselves due to two awful candidates. At the time the donation was made the Wildrose campaign was already imploding.
If by legit you mean merely distasteful, well, you have a gift for understatment.
The more I look into this the more I think it demonstrates corruption. We are being asked to believe that this single cheque did not raise any eyebrows such that even the PC leadership was not made aware? Not possible, not credible, not true.
If this is "legit" there are no spending cap limits for political donations in Alberta. The legislation itself is a sham.
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Not sure exactly what the timeline was for the donation but if in fact it was at the end of the campaign, the PC's had already spent approx $4 million on the campaign and had only received approx. $1.2 million in contributions. They had gone massively into debt trying to stem the tide of what appeared to be a winning WR campaign, and they were probably desperate for money.
Definitely doesn't pass the sniff test.