I made a quick foray into supporting a political candidate once (sponsored golf tourneys, did luncheons, etc etc). From what I can tell a lot of the people running around in provincial politics were either a) professional politicians b) people looking to be professional politicians and c) people looking to influence professional politicians. Redford and her camp seems to be fitting my stereotype quite well.
The whole mentality (or at least the feeling I got) was that people were more interested in the Alberta gravy train than they were in actually doing any good for the province. Which is a shame considering how much money there is here (which I guess would be part of the problem).
|