[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Slava

Looks like some interesting times coming in the Wildrose party. Here is a piece from Danielle Smith: http://www.newstalk770.com/2016/06/10/129793/

And in that piece it refers to a longer blog post here: http://albertapoliticalinsiders.kobl...ing-roses.html

Sounds like another new leader on the horizon though, which is not good for the party.

A “poll” went out asking people to identify their support. When they identified as Wildrose they were played a message that went something like this: “Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith and some of her MLAs marched in Pride where men dressed in women’s underwear and danced in front of children. Is this consistent with your values?” The “poll” was targeted and designed to keep Wildrose voters from coming out to vote during the byelections and it worked: we lost all four seats. I thought it was done by one of our opponents. At the AGM I found out it was done by a Wildrose organizer supported by a Wildrose donor. The effort at the AGM to vote down the LGBTQ equality rights policy was apparently part of an effort to teach me a lesson for marching in Pride.

Yeah, these rubes are never going to form a government. It seems like they don't even really want to. They just want a platform to express their displeasure at stuff other people do. Classic grass-roots, populist, howling-in-the-wilderness politics.