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Originally Posted by Jade
It's interesting to me that people equate funding with the quality of the candidate rather than the reality of the riding. In the end there's only so much to go around. The liberals had a lot of money in the riding because of who the outgoing MLA is, and the conservatives just have a lot of money. Really all the NDP had available to them was to find the best available individual possible for the riding and hope people were willing to listen at the debates rather than just look at who threw money at the area. Speaking as someone who knows Kathleen, she would make an excellent MLA.
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That may very well be true, but her campaign team certainly didn't make her case to me. I received literally zero contact from her: no mailings, no phone calls, no brochures, no door-knocking, nothing (the same was true for the Wildrose candidate in Buffalo). The relatively few NDP lawn signs I saw in the Beltline didn't even have her name on them; they were just generic party signs encouraging readers to vote for the "Rachel Notley team". As a candidate, the onus was on Ms. Ganley to convince me why she's deserving of my vote, and she failed utterly at that test.