Alberta Election Thread - Election Day April 16 2019

[Ozy_Flame]

More RCMP action!

https://twitter.com/user/status/1116840143443378178

[RedHot25]

Ummm, well this isn't exactly good news...

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/calgar...1_4378146.html

Plain-clothed members of the RCMP searched an auto-repair shop owned by United Conservative Party candidate for Calgary-East, Peter Singh, on Thursday night and seized several items from the business.

RCMP officials confirm a search warrant was executed at the Autopro location in the 5700 block of 17 Avenue Southeast on Thursday. RCMP members left the shop carrying a computer hard drive, additional electronic devices and a hard-shell suitcase shortly before 11:00 p.m.

A representative at Singh’s campaign office says the Calgary-East candidate’s whereabouts were unknown as of Friday afternoon.

Shortly after 8:00 p.m. Friday, Peter Singh released the following statement proclaiming his innocence while alleging his opponents played a role in bringing exposure to the search conducted at his business

[RedHot25]

@EmmaLGraney

I tried to ask Kenney about the RCMP raid of an office belonging to once of his Calgary candidates. I was blocked by staffers and they closed the door. He didn’t even look at me.

Not a huge surprise. They told me he wasn’t taking Qs but hey - a girl’s gotta try. #ableg #abvote

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

More RCMP action!

https://twitter.com/user/status/1116840143443378178

He says his stuff has already been returned.

"I stand firm on my innocence. I have fully cooperated with the RCMP. The items seized from my business were returned at 9:00am this morning. It is apparent this story is a scare tactic used to create doubt in the voter’s mind by the competition, to hurt my Campaign and the United Conservative Party during this crucial time as we very near Election Day."

Something about this story isn't right. I assume he is referencing the NDP when he says "competition". but how would they have any influence on the RCMP to serve a warrant on him?

Then again, why would they seize a bunch of stuff and then return it the next morning? Would the forensic team not need more than 12 hours to go through his stuff, and if something incriminating and/or related to the warrant was found, would it not be kept by the police as evidence?

All very weird.

[RedHot25]

Yup, something smells...

[Oling_Roachinen]

Just as a reminder that Singh was accused by multiple UCP losing candidates in that riding of voter fraud and bribery last year. The UCP would 'investigate' and claim sour grapes. That's not to say he's guilty, innocent until proven and all that, just that it's pretty likely in connection to that.

But once again UCP members accusing UCP members of voter fraud will inadvertantly become the NDP's fault somehow.

Here's the article:
https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019...tion-race.html

[Frank MetaMusil]

Glad I voted already.

[Dion]

Ex-MLAs lament "toxic" election campaign

Earlier this month, a Red Deer couple’s vehicle was vandalized by those who targeted their support for the NDP.

It’s a trend that soured McPherson on politics well before the current campaign.

“It’s something that made me not want to stay in the government caucus,” said McPherson, who left the NDP for the Alberta Party in October 2017.

“We weren’t talking about what’s good for Albertans, but how terrible the other person was.”

It’s an approach and mindset that’s particularly counterproductive, she said, at a time of economic difficulty in Alberta.

“There’s not a lot of space about talking about solutions,” she said. “We have a great province facing difficult times and what we really need is a positive message.”

Swann agreed this campaign has been extraordinarily negative.

“It’s bitter and personal and rather toxic,” he said.

Swann said those tactics tend to turn off constituents, particularly women.

“Women bring a different energy and this discourages them,” he said.
But even Swann said sometimes negativity has a credible focus as well as limits.

He pointed to the so-called “kamikaze candidate” issue plaguing Kenney, saying it hasn’t had the impact on the campaign he had expected.

“It doesn’t stick to him, people have decided none of it’s very believable or if it is, all parties do it,” said Swann.

Negative campaigning is generally effective, said Mount Royal University communications professor David Taras.

But those attacks have to be believable, he added.

“They can backfire if they are seen as over-the-top, false or too nasty. The attacker can look desperate and just plain mean.”

He said it was probably a mistake for the New Democrats to focus so much of their message on attacking rather than on the economy, a crucial area Notley seems to have ceded to her UCP counterpart.

“Instead, you make weakness into your strength,” he said of Notley’s perceived vulnerable spot, the economy.

Notley has said repeatedly that going negative is often necessary because it shines a vital light on potential leaders.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...ction-campaign

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil

Glad I voted already.

I voted yesterday afternoon and was in and out of the polling place in under 5 minutes. No lineups either.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Dion

Btw I voted for the AB party this afternoon.

Originally Posted by Dion

I voted yesterday afternoon and was in and out of the polling place in under 5 minutes. No lineups either.

You voted on the 9th AND the 12th?

Dion, I don’t think that’s allowed

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

You voted on the 9th AND the 12th?

Dion, I don’t think that’s allowed

Well ... . Just kidding.

[transplant99]

So the very same US funded groups who have openly been targeting Alberta and to land lock the oil, are in fact working very hard to get the NDP re-elected.

No wonder Notley never talks about this foreign influence on the energy sector....she is their buddy. (This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one)

As always....follow the money. Vivian Krause deserves a medal for all her work on this stuff.

I just dont know how anyone can vote for them with a clear conscience knowing that she has actively worked against the oil and gas industry.

How different the court’s ruling might have been (indeed, the entire proceeding may have been conducted differently) if only Notley had initiated some form of legal action in July 2018 when she was provided a solid footing on which to begin and urged to do so.

At the very least, some form of legal action would have put on court record that the Tar Sands Campaign explicitly funds activist groups — including First Nations — to landlock Canadian oil.

Notley had a choice. She could have taken action against the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Notley could have defended Alberta and, indeed, all of Canada. She didn’t.

Notley has rarely if ever mentioned the Rockefeller name in public even though it is their money, their campaign, that has sabotaged the backbone industry of Alberta’s economy.

https://business.financialpost.com/o...landlocked-oil

[Fuzz]

This is the weirdest election I can remember. Still don't know who to vote for.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Lets vote to build a time machine and reset to allow Prentice to be Premier. Arrogant prick that he was, he'd still be miles better than the current options.

[OMG!WTF!]

This is me voting in Edmonton yesterday...


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...nist-1.5097064

[Ace]

Originally Posted by transplant99

So the very same US funded groups who have openly been targeting Alberta and to land lock the oil, are in fact working very hard to get the NDP re-elected.



No wonder Notley never talks about this foreign influence on the energy sector....she is their buddy. (This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one)



As always....follow the money. Vivian Krause deserves a medal for all her work on this stuff.



I just dont know how anyone can vote for them with a clear conscience knowing that she has actively worked against the oil and gas industry.













https://business.financialpost.com/o...landlocked-oil

Was about to post the same. This is very good investigative journalism and pretty much at a minimum shows the NDP purposely turned a blind eye.

[transplant99]

I cannot believe that Notley had the gall to utter these words in reference to fighting the Rockefellers and standing up for the Alberta energy sector...

“Better things to do,”

Video here.

https://twitter.com/FairQuestions/st...44190061813764


just....what?

[Rando]

The outrage when one side does something compared to the rush to defend and explain when the other does something else is already tiresome. Even on this page alone one user is guilty of it, perhaps not knowingly.

Only been a couple weeks and already sick of this election. Certainly it's brought out the worst in some.

[Major Major]

Originally Posted by transplant99

I cannot believe that Notley had the gall to utter these words in reference to fighting the Rockefellers and standing up for the Alberta energy sector...





Video here.

https://twitter.com/FairQuestions/st...44190061813764


just....what?

As in, there are better ways to allocate resources. Don't know what is so galling about that statement.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by Major Major

As in, there are better ways to allocate resources. Don't know what is so galling about that statement.

Really?

The person charged with running this province says they have "better things to do" than fight the very groups that have cost this province 10's of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue....isn't a problem for you?


OK then.

I have a very very different perspective on that.