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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
You guessed wrong.
EDIT to add that we've really fallen on hard times if a stint as an at-best mediocre editor of a third-rate local newspaper is enough to qualify someone to serve as our elected representative. Either we really lack talented people in Calgary Centre, or Crockatt (in addition to being patently a doofus) is pitifully unqualified.
Calgary voters should stop letting the Tory party treat them like a doormat, and send a message to the party: give us better candidates.
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Because the Herald and the National Post are 'third-rate'.....? Because helping build CanWest into what became, at the time, the world's largest media conglomerate is not a professional accomplishment?
The party should 'give' you better candidates? Ms. Crockatt wasn't 'given' by anyone, she ran in a nomination and won the votes of regular members. No one 'gave' us Crockatt. Last I checked, it was a wide open race with a diverse group of candidates whereby no one was kept from running for the nomination and Ms. Crockatt edged out the 2nd-place finisher on the fourth ballot. So no, she wasn't 'given' to us by anyone other than herself and from rumours I've heard, some CPC officials were hoping for her to not win her nomination.
If her resume is so 'average', why didn't you run yourself? Surely you'd be able to trump these accomplishments otherwise you wouldn't have thrown stones, right?
The most annoying thing in what should be a good political debate baseless bashing simply because of party affiliation. You don't like their policies, cool. That's your prerogative and something that should never be removed from you. But please, get the facts straight. Bash parties for their policies or things that are actually based on fact.