The Alison Redford transgressions thread. Update- Redford quits.

[darklord700]

http://calgaryherald.com/news/politi...committee-told

Proof that the Sky Palace was ordered by Redford. Denying it after a year just made her a bad lier.

[CaptainCrunch]

So lets add to the list.

She was worthless as a premier. She was arrogant, and now (and we knew it but it bears updating) dishonest. On top of corrupt (ex hubby's law firm gets tobacco law suit contract).

But I guess she expects because of her massive ego that we should eat up any BS that she puts out there while smiling and saying, "Yes your highness"

[Regular_John]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

So lets add to the list.

She was worthless as a premier. She was arrogant, and now (and we knew it but it bears updating) dishonest. On top of corrupt (ex hubby's law firm gets tobacco law suit contract).

But I guess she expects because of her massive ego that we should eat up any BS that she puts out there while smiling and saying, "Yes your highness"

But she was a working Mom! - Red Herring

[CaptainCrunch]

I feel bad for her daughter. She goes from private planes and butlers and trips for her and her friends to wherever they want to go, to having to get into mom's bentley and drive first class commercial

Back of hand to forehead and sigh. So hard done by.

[Slava]

I'm a political junkie and wish I could quit these threads but its like crack. That being said I can't possibly be the only one who just doesn't care about these "transgressions" anymore, am I? I get it...she spent $45k and people thought she was mean. Let's just move along though.

[CaptainCrunch]

Its more then 45k my friend, and it was more then an incident it was a pattern of incidents.

Its more then she was just mean to.

Its the ultimate story of political arrogance and failure, and it points to more then an individual, it points to an entire party structure because nothing in a political party happens in a vacuum.

[Fire]

That's why politicians get away with this garbage over and over again, because people just move along.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Its more then 45k my friend, and it was more then an incident it was a pattern of incidents.

Its more then she was just mean to.

Its the ultimate story of political arrogance and failure, and it points to more then an individual, it points to an entire party structure because nothing in a political party happens in a vacuum.

Originally Posted by Fire

That's why politicians get away with this garbage over and over again, because people just move along.

You know what, you are guys are right. Let's dwell on this forever and keep on with it. I'll just bow out and let you do your thing.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Its more then 45k my friend, and it was more then an incident it was a pattern of incidents.

Its more then she was just mean to.

Its the ultimate story of political arrogance and failure, and it points to more then an individual, it points to an entire party structure because nothing in a political party happens in a vacuum.

Originally Posted by Fire

That's why politicians get away with this garbage over and over again, because people just move along.

Originally Posted by Slava

You know what, you are guys are right. Let's dwell on this forever and keep on with it. I'll just bow out and let you do your thing.

As is classically the case, it's missing the forest through the trees.

Redford likely never becomes premiere with proper election reform.

[Violator]

Alison Redford’s ‘sky palace’ is open for business — complete with plastic guard owls and her old couch

EDMONTON — A penthouse suite that was dubbed the sky palace as it came to symbolize what was seen as the former Alberta government’s sense of entitlement is open for business. But the space has become a frankensuite with bedrooms turned boardrooms, hand-me-down furniture, bug-eyed plastic guard owls and one-time premier Alison Redford’s old couch.
Construction on the penthouse atop the Federal Building in Edmonton just recently finished and the suite has been available for meetings since Jan. 1.


“I think it’s been used six times,” said Cheryl Oates, spokeswoman for Premier Rachel Notley.
The 11th-floor suite is a design mishmash: half home, half office, equal parts opulent and shabby. A washer and dryer still wrapped in plastic sit just off the main conference room.
It reflects a political trajectory from lavish home-to-be for Redford to toxic symbol of government excess to its latest incarnation as a politically radioactive fallout zone.


Redford’s Tory successors never stepped foot in the sky palace. Oates said Notley and the NDP caucus don’t plan to either.
“It has continued as a physical representation of how the PCs squandered our revenue when times were good,” said Oates.
“Our government doesn’t want to continue that story.”
Documents about the suite were released in March 2014 — just days after Redford quit the top job ahead of a caucus revolt over excessive travel spending on herself, her family and friends.
Spending on the suite was cut off by her Tory successors as public outrage grew over the taxpayer-funded project that had already racked up at least $240,000 in 3D design drawings, colour boards, room dividers, blueprints and construction.


The penthouse was originally intended to be a meeting room, part of a $400-million makeover of the historic Tyndall stone building, which now houses some government officials, opposition legislature members and government backbenchers.
But sometime in 2012, officials in Redford’s office took over and began to remodel the top floor. It was to be done in the style of the luxury Hay Adams hotel in Washington, D.C., with its European linens, marble bathrooms, brass fixtures and views of the White House.
The “premier’s den” was to be for Redford and her daughter. There were bedrooms, bathrooms, a dining room, lounge, fireplace, powder room, butler’s pantry, walk-in closet and room-by-room temperature controls.
The structure itself is elegant: wood flooring, carved wooden posts and floor-to-ceiling exterior windows. Doors open onto a patio with panoramic views of the city.
Plastic owls with slowly rotating heads sit on ledges and rooftops to scare away pigeons.

The “premier’s den” was to be for Redford and her daughter. There were bedrooms, bathrooms, a dining room, lounge, fireplace, powder room, butler’s pantry, walk-in closet and room-by-room temperature controls.
The structure itself is elegant: wood flooring, carved wooden posts and floor-to-ceiling exterior windows. Doors open onto a patio with panoramic views of the city.
Plastic owls with slowly rotating heads sit on ledges and rooftops to scare away pigeons.


But almost all the walls are bare. There’s the odd potted plant.
The main conference room, where the living room would have been, has a table that sits 14.
A phone sits on the floor.
In the adjacent room, there is a sink, a counter and an empty fridge.
A second, smaller bedroom turned conference area, has an oval table, eight chairs on rollers, a plastic wastebasket and a curtain over the clothes closet.
The third room, what would have been the largest bedroom, is the only one with some vibrancy. There are comfortable red, high-back chairs around a coffee table. There’s artwork on the walls.


Along one wall, there is an off-white two-seater couch and two ornate end tables rescued from Redford’s old office.
Two floor lamps are the only purchases for the suite. Everything else, say government officials, was begged and borrowed from government storage or surplus.
Redford, now working for the Conference Board of Canada, has never commented in detail on her failed administration except to say “mistakes were made.”
Oates said one of the reasons the NDP caucus doesn’t use the penthouse is that there are better options, including state-of-the-art meeting rooms just one floor down.
“Those (sky palace) bedrooms are beautiful bedrooms, but not the best meeting spaces.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-her-old-couch

pics are in the link

What do people call her? Big red? more like big spender.

[Ozy_Flame]

Thanks NDP

[CaptainCrunch]

They should publicly take down her picture in the legislature and burn it.

She was a worthless, self entitled spoiled useless scumbag swamp beast.

[stampsx2]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

They should publicly take down her picture in the legislature and burn it.

She was a worthless, self entitled spoiled useless scumbag swamp beast.

Notley or Redford? You have to be more clear.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

Notley or Redford? You have to be more clear.

Redford

Notley doesn't seem to be corrupt, she's naive and inflexible and a bit arrogant, but not corrupt.

[GGG]

Really someone should live there. I assume all the out of town MLAs get an LOA so Brisn Jean should move in to at least get use out of what was sunk into it.

[Kavvy]

Originally Posted by GGG

Really someone should live there. I assume all the out of town MLAs get an LOA so Brisn Jean should move in to at least get use out of what was sunk into it.

The idea of Brian Jean living there really makes me laugh.

The thought of the anti-tax and government spending man of Alberta living in a grand symbol of wasted tax dollars is amazing.

We should set-up a petition to have the official opposition housed in the sky palace.

[Zarley]

Much like governance, tasteful design is obviously not her strong suit either.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by GGG

Really someone should live there. I assume all the out of town MLAs get an LOA so Brisn Jean should move in to at least get use out of what was sunk into it.

Or how about, you know they can use it for the weekly meetings of the Politburo, and the Central Committee can book it for party meetings on Sundays.

[FireGilbert]

Why not list it on Air BnB?

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Why not list it on Air BnB?

Then have a giant orgy in it and send the bill to her?