Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[sleepingmoose]

Originally Posted by Torture

Vote for me so that I can reign in the Premier.
Or, vote NDP so that we don't need to reign in the Premier.

Hmmm tough choice.

I agree with you.

I felt sorry for him, but even if I thought he would be the 'voice of reason', it clearly hasn't been working for him so far, so why would she all of a sudden start listening to him now?

Voting for the NDP to avoid that whole mess seems to be the only way to go at this point.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Remember how all those "voices of reason" were going to reign Trump in? Good times. When the inmates already control the asylum, why the hell would they be anything other than insane?

[NuclearFart]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...847905?cmp=rss

Anyone who has had to spend any amount of time caring fo someone in the hospital knows this is pretty much your only option, and it was really nice to have a good variety of healthy options.

Just another epic disaster of privatization of our healthcare system, like when they privatized parking, and prices went up and flexibility disappeared. But hey, a private company got to make some money off of taxpayers, so big win for us.

I still don't understand why Conservatives push for this stupidity. It makes no sense. Do they like paying more for less?

Damn this explains it. For the last 6 months I've been wondering why the food at RGH/PLC has resided somewhere between foreskin and rectum.

UCP just gonna keep flagellating health care workers until the morale improves.

[dsavillian]

Originally Posted by sleepingmoose

Ric McIver came to my door about 10 minutes ago - basically he said we should vote for him so he can be the voice of reason when the Premier or the rest of caucus gets crazy ideas.

That says it all right there - he knows DS and the UCP are crap, but he has no choice. I like him and I feel he's represented us well, but I just can't vote for the party he's aligned with. And his reply was very quick - I don't think it's the first time he's had to advocate for himself over the party or Premier.

He must be hearing a trend. When he came to my door he didn't try and sway me at all when I told him that I can't vote for a party that has Smith as the leader. I wonder if he's in damage control mode.

[Yoho]

I wonder if McIver like any door to door salesman quickly figures out what the person who answers the door wants to hear to still get thier vote.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Yoho

I wonder if McIver like any door to door salesman quickly figures out what the person who answers the door wants to hear to still get thier vote.

You mean like Danielle Smith?

[topfiverecords]

UCP seems a touch disorganized. Three different people dropped the same flyer within the span of an hour.

The first one closed the mailbox and then sorta glitched for 5 seconds and just stood there staring at the plain mailbox lid.

The second came back after getting to the sidewalk to double check that they indeed put the paper in the mailbox. So they too glitched out at some point.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Yoho

I wonder if McIver like any door to door salesman quickly figures out what the person who answers the door wants to hear to still get thier vote.

So you're saying that McIvor is lying to people to get them to vote for him? Wonder where he'd get the idea that lying to the public is ok.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

UCP seems a touch disorganized. Three different people dropped the same flyer within the span of an hour.

The first one closed the mailbox and then sorta glitched for 5 seconds and just stood there staring at the plain mailbox lid.

The second came back after getting to the sidewalk to double check that they indeed put the paper in the mailbox. So they too glitched out at some point.

I saw 4 of them milling about, unsure of what to do. They then went to one door, then mosey'd off in the direction from whence they came. I think all the orange discouraged them.

Yesterday from across the street a guy calls out "I like he colour of your sign!" His team was very upbeat, and we had a nice little chat. I also got a call from the NDP asking if I needed help with any voting related thing. I also received a call meekly asking if Nixon could count on me for my support "absolute not" "Thank you." click. Kinda get the feeling it's obvious where the excitement is this round.

[ah123]

Just got a call asking me if I would support the “independent conservative candidate” in my riding. I didn’t even know that we have an independent conservative candidate running in NW Calgary

[bagofpucks]

Yah, same disorganization out in my rural area. The UCP incumbent from one riding over sent us all mail outs and has his signs up in our area and still nothing from our current incumbent UCP MLA. I saw a neighbor take down their blue sign the other day and I believe he is of Ukrainian heritage, so maybe the pro-Putin social media posts of some of the UCP candidates made him change his mind.

[para transit fellow]

Originally Posted by Torture

Vote for me so that I can reign in the Premier.
Or, vote NDP so that we don't need to reign in the Premier.

Hmmm tough choice.

nobody has been listening to him since Smith became leader

noone will listen to him if the election votes the #ucp in.

it is sad to see him reduced to desperate pleas for some sort of fictional relevancy

[Yoho]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1659756848923246592

[Faust]

Track record for Calgary-Bow UPC Minister Nicolaides:

Demetrios Nicolaides’ red-tape plan for post-secondaries is about dominating free speech on campus, not defending it

https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/02/d...-defending-it/

Alberta government will help pay to relocate 500 Athabasca University staff: Advanced Education minister:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...tion-1.6544266

Athabasca University President fired after long-running disagreement with UCP over institution’s role in Athabasca Town:

https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/02/a...thabasca-town/

Who Won the Battle of Athabasca U? Not Alberta’s Government:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/...ta-Government/

[Faust]

In fairness to offer the counter point for Calgary Bow - Druh Farrell is not universally liked either:

Druh Farrell reflects on accomplishments, controversies of 20-year tenure as Ward 7 councillor:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ving-1.6173862

Calgary city councillors defend fluoride decision:

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...oride-decision

[Dion]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1659725224441511938

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by stone hands

I’m not sure why you guys are hopeful that the conservatives won’t triple down on this. Even in the best case scenario if the ndp were to win, they are just going to get punted in 4 years when traditional conservative voters think they taught the ucp a lesson. Vote splitting was a big reason why the ndp won in the first place, but part of it was a reaction to the awful pc governments, and we ended up with the Kenny ucp as a response. It’s just going to be same story in 2027

Yeah you're probably right. But a man can dream

[para transit fellow]

https://twitter.com/lumin8/status/16...QtfoBtxzg&s=19

[surferguy]

Originally Posted by sleepingmoose

ric mciver came to my door about 10 minutes ago - basically he said we should vote for him so he can be the voice of reason when the premier or the rest of caucus gets crazy ideas.

That says it all right there - he knows ds and the ucp are crap, but he has no choice. I like him and i feel he's represented us well, but i just can't vote for the party he's aligned with. And his reply was very quick - i don't think it's the first time he's had to advocate for himself over the party or premier.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1659921124824858625


Just so we are clear on who is running things.

[Fuzz]

"I may have sold my soul to the devil, but I have a really good feeling about this Beelzebub guy being able to keep the devil from making me suffer too much."