Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Yikes...

Good news: the Conservative candidate in the Calgary-Glenmore byelection gets beaten like the proverbial rented mule. Premier Ed Stelmach's leadership - or lack thereof - is cited as one of the principal issues leading to the defeat.

Bad news: the candidate who wins the byelection is from the Wildrose Alliance, which is to the Alberta Conservatives what the Reform Party was to the federal PCs, lo these many years ago.

Only in Alberta will you find a rightist government being taken to task for not being far enough to the right. It is to weep.
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Milan Davidović said...

This should be no surprise, coming as it does in a city known (justifiably or not, I'll leave it to you to decide) around the world for its mistreatment of animals.

I find the outcome of the byelection interesting in light of a comment I heard on Cross Country Checkup over the weekend that Calgary has more 2nd and 3rd place results for the Green Party than anywhere else in the country, meaning essentially that Calgary is the closest thing the Greens have to a "stronghold".

If that turned out to be so, it'd be kind of an interesting juxtaposition, no?

15/9/09 13:02

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