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Originally Posted by Slava
What's the end game here then? Like what master plan is there for this to somehow gain her something?
And really, how shocking is it that people wrote insults on her nomination papers? I am not shocked by this at all, as we all know there is some bad blood between these groups.
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Watching from afar it would seem her end game is one or both of two outcomes, of which the political narrative benefits from trumping up what happened to her on the weekend.
Outcome #1 - Her claim all along is that she's a centrist Albertan who espouses to a progressive agenda. The PC party under Kenny will no longer fit the definition of progressive so if she can see that she doesn't stand a chance of winning the leadership then she can rally behind a PC establishment candidate who best can fend off Kenney ala Starke
Outcome #2 - She can leave the PC party completely and join the NDP. She can use her version of what happened on the weekend of further evidence that the PC party has 'abandoned the centre' to benefit her re-alignment.
She doesn't strike me as someone who's ambitions would leave her comfortable being a government backbench MLA (which is all she would be in a Jason Kenny led PC government) or serving very long in opposition (which is probably what moving to the Liberals or Alberta Party would mean for her). So if she doesn't think she can win the PC leadership then her Plan A would be to rally around Starke, and if he wins, he owes her one and she would stand to be a cabinet minister again. If he loses, then she can leave the party and cross to the NDP who could benefit from her defection and make her an obvious choice to be named a cabinet minister there.