Alberta Election Thread - Election Day April 16 2019

[zamler]

Are these pundits high? Losing your mandate to govern is never a victory.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by zamler

CTV is going on about gender I never once considered gender in this election having any impact. I don't know anyone else that did either. Voters want competent people full stop.

So why did they elect in the UCP then?

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Nsd1

Notely wearing a blue blazer? I smell a floor crossing

New AP leader?

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Interesting question: you’ve got someone, a very hard and committed person working in the public service sector, now worried about losing what job security they had. What do you tell them? (This is not entirely a hypothetical, I’m just not sure what to tell them)

He should quit now before the UCP death squads come looking for him.

[zamler]

That is very odd wearing UCP blue.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

Jeremy Nixon been trying to get elected in every federal, provincial, municipal election for the last 12 years or so. Wonder if he will actually pull it off now.

Jeremy is finally getting his seat that he fought so many years for.

[BigNumbers]

God, I hope we see a meaningful cutback of public service wages for administration rolls (ie. not front line staff like teachers, doctors, nurses). A nice 10-20% cutback to help start attacking the insane deficit the NDP has left us with.

[GGG]

So what pieces of Notley’s NDP legislation survive the next 4 years?

My thoughts
In
- minimum wage of $15 for adults
- progressive income tax
- Carbon Tax (Either provincial or federally mandated)
- Worker protections in Bill 6 that are unrelated to farm workers
- revised royalty framework for conventional wells
- Rail Cars
- Curtailment until it was set to expire.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by BigNumbers

God, I hope we see a meaningful cutback of public service wages for administration rolls (ie. not front line staff like teachers, doctors, nurses). A nice 10-20% cutback to help start attacking the insane deficit the NDP has left us with.

No need to. Just hold at 0% for a while and let inflation do its work.

[Weitz]

Gee Notley is still pushing those divisions.

T-minus how long till there is anti pipeline leak?

[4X4]

The AP really pisses me off with the pushing out of Greg Clark for that f-ing dinosaur Mandel. Way to wreck the momentum.

Alberta politics suck worse than American politics.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by CaptainYooh

Mandel and Clark should have joined UCP and got themselves elected. I am sure Kenney would have accepted both of them with open arms. This way, they would have been able to affect policy-making and be more centrist voices in the majority right-of-centre government.

I thought Mandel went to AP because he and Kenney don't want each other.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Weitz

Gee Notley is still pushing those divisions.

Kind of disappointing to see that.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Kind of disappointing to see that.

Not surprising though.

[GGG]

CO2 emmissions don’t affect the quality of the air our kids breathe

[Ozy_Flame]

AP has about 10% of the popular vote, that's a big increase from last time. FPTP sucks and has always sucked.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by zamler

that is very odd wearing ucp blue.

mole!

[Jacks]

People are holding up blue signs saying "fighting for jobs" at the NDP rally?
What the hell is that?

[redforever]

Originally Posted by N-E-B

I voted at the advanced polls and it definitely wasn’t scantron.

Same here. The advanced poll I went to was in my riding and I got the normal paper that was folded and that you marked with an X.

You got the other if you voted outside of your riding, at least that is what I was told.

[DiracSpike]

Isn't it customary to give a shout out to the person that beat you at the beginning of your speech?