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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
This really has been a case of a death by 1000 cuts, none of what Redford has done has really been a major breach, but the continual optics of her actions are quite poor. Frankly I don't understand why people are so up in arms about the really quite small things like plane trips to similar destinations, these are things that one would hope that the Premier of the province would be unaware of ever occurring. To start putting to boots to someone based upon things like that is downright embarrassing. Then there is the stuff about how she is a bully, I know politicians, they are almost always bullies, at least the successful ones are. Look at Harper, he is a bully, but you never hear him getting called one, he is rather considered a strong willed-leader... Women on the other hand get called bitches and bullies.
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Except that her transgressions really range to the personal side, flying her kids and friends around, sending her assistant to South Africa completely when it wasn't necessary and charging to tax payers for the first place flights, and then spending even more on first class tickets to come back.
A lot of the expenses really have nothing to do with doing provincial business. They also come across as incredibly spoiled.
I've never heard anyone come out and accuse Stephen Harper of yelling and brow beating people, like I've heard Redford doing. Harper might be controlling but he doesn't seem to be the type to do that. When someone in her inner circle states that he was so uncomfortable with what she was doing to her aids that he left the car and walked, that's an unprofessional level of bullying.
However Harper gets called out for being a bully all the time, but I've never seen stories on him doing personal level bullying as oppossed to being controlling and those are two different things.
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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
She is viewed as being too liberal by the more right wing factions of the populace and too conservative by the left wing factions of the province. Really right now there isn't a huge population that the PCs are really attractive towards.
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Right now her politics really have no bearing on this discussion, in fact they've been lost in the static.
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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
Right now Alberta has a revenue problem and any party that doesn't acknowledge that is going to be one that will find themselves in a deficit situation for a long period of time.
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You clearly need to read more and understand what's happening budget wise in this province, especially when you have a finance Minister who's running a very mafia style 2 book budgeting system.
But Alberta doesn't have anything near to a revenue problem.