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Airdrie's Deputy Mayor Allan Hunter to start petition seeking resignation of Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson

A long-time supporter who reluctantly supported Anderson’s move to the fledgling Wildrose in 2010, Hunter said he is starting the petition because he is uncomfortable with the MLA’s decision to return to a Tory government that has consistently mismanaged the province’s finances during four decades in power.

“Rob Anderson is doing what’s good for Rob Anderson, regardless of what’s best for Airdrie,” he said.

“People are ticked off because he’s going back to folks who have been in power for 43 years, have had tens of billions of dollars at their disposal and haven’t put enough in the bank to weather the current storm from low oil prices.”

He said Anderson “had burned a lot of bridges” with the Tory constituency association because of his vocal criticism of the government in recent years and predicted the MLA could face a challenge for the party banner from Airdrie mayor Peter Brown.

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