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Taft Toast
Before the electionAfter the electionTaft says he won't make a hasty exitThat's why it's called the bums rush......but there will be an automatic leadership review in six to eight months.d blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:Alberta Ke...
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Tories Lack Of Planning Wins Election
There was no enumeration done between the 2004 an 2008 election despite thousands of new people coming to the province to gain from the current boom. Instant Albertans, you only have to live here for six months to be eligible to be called an Albertan...
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Alberta No Longer Rat Free
Alberta has long prided itself on being rat free. No longer. There are now 73 of the little buggers newly elected as the Tired Old Tory Government. Ed Stelmach of course is King Rat now having even beat King Ralph's election record. . Yep its the yea...
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Ed Gets The Bird
Calgary giving Tories cold shoulder....and a bit more....Some of the brewing hostility in Calgary toward the PC leader was exemplified Saturday, though, when an older woman stopped her car in the middle of a busy north-end street to honk the horn and...
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It's Not A Leadership Race
Not since the ill fated Don Getty regime have the Tired Old Tories been in such a sorry state. Before Getty the Lougheed Team could do no wrong. After Getty the man of the people; King Ralph could do no wrong. The Tories would do well in the polls be...
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Calgary Home of Conservatives Of All Ilks
Premier Ed Stelmach calls Calgary "Conservative Heartland ...Sure is....Neo-Nazis Firebomb Calgary Activists Thursday, 28 February 2008 On Tuesday, February 12, two prominent members of the Communist Party of Canada were the t...
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Ed's Glass Half Empty
CanWest Media; the Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald this morning greeted Albertans with this screaming election headline; Another Tory majority in sight.Well actually no. Their latest poll puts Ed Stelmach and his team at 40%. Now that would be a...
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Alberta Election Debate
Watching the leaders debate tonight ...Mason hits Taft with a zinger over the issue of capping greenhouse gas, the NDP brought a motion into the legislature that would cap greenhouse gases but both the Liberals and PC's voted against it. Zingo, bang,...
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Dynamic Leadership
The difference between the Tories and Tory Light...is the NDP. Keith Brownsey, political science professor at Mount Royal College; "Taft has performed well," Brownsey said, although he noted the Grit leader isn't connecting on a personal level with v...
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Liberals Call For Strategic Voting
Tim Vant the invisible Liberal candidate in Edmonton Strathcona has good advise to voters and fellow Liberals. VOTE STRATEGICALLY Don't throw your vote away. Seeing as he doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell against the well organized NDP ca...
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Edmonton Strarthcona PC Candidate MIA
Meet another PC candidate who is internet challenged. Unlike his boss though this guy is a member of the net generation.T. J. Keil is Ed's boy in Edmonton Strathcona.TJ to his friends. But he doesn't have much of a campaign or a hope in hell of winni...
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Ed's Facebook Page
Ed Stelmach doesn't have his own Facebook page....but he has a Facebook Fan Club which is formed by folks out in Toronto and Kingston, Ontario..... claiming Northern Alberta loves Ed....The Ed Stelmach fan clubType:Organizations - Political Organiza...
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False Advertising
Yeah made a commitment to be delivered in 2009,or 2010 or maybe 2011....As for a plan they have no plan...except to get re-elected...Stelmach's sophomore-year throne speech will try to further convince voters he has a clear plan, contrary to the omi...
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Sun Love In With NDP
Is subversive socialism creeping into the Sun Editorial Room. After all their new marketing slogan smacks of Bolshevism; Read Red. Red being their banner colour.And they are saying nice things about Brian Mason and the NDP after Brian met with them y...
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Costing Promises
Liberals Tories same old stories; make plenty of spending promises but leave the calculator at home.Plenty of Promises, but Little AccountingThe Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are proving least accountable with public dollars when it c...
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Broken Promises
You can't break promises if you don't make any.However, Stelmach wouldn't guarantee his government will continue natural gas rebates for all AlbertansOn the other hand its bad news when you make a promise you know you can't keep.The Tories couldn't s...
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Ed's Politics Of Fear
With a green plan that makes the Federal Conservative government Hot Air Plan look good, hard to do, Farmer Ed now resorts to the politics of fear claiming that any green plan other than his non plan would end up with mass unemployment of everyone in...
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Time For Public Auto Insurance
This decision couldn't have come at a better time. Once again the Tired Old Tories tried to pull the auto insurance companies fat out of the fire and in doing so of course passed a law that blamed the victims.Taking a page out of the Republican handb...
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Daveberta Smears NDP
Daveberta the liberal blogger thinks he has found a scandal in the NDP calling for an end to corporate and union donations to political parties in Alberta. He reports in high dudgeon on his website that the NDP raised $100,000 from unions during the ...
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Another Tory Turn Coat
More Alberta conservatives are deserting the Tired Old Tory Titanic.Stelmach also got sideswiped in the traditional Tory stronghold of Calgary -- despite not even stopping in the city -- when Ron Wood, longtime adviser to Preston Manning and Stephen ...
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Brand X
Rick Bell hits the nail on the head about our Brand X government and the party in charge.a good assumption is many Albertans will simply cling to the Tory brand unless the actual Xs on the big day show something different. It's the brand. It has noth...
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Diotte Endorses Mason and NDP
The Edmonton Sun's resident right wing city hall columnist Kerry Diotte actually praises Brian Mason and the NDP. Truly this election is going to see things shook up in Alberta.NDP Leader Brian Mason is easily the most quotable and savvy of the three...
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Ethically Challenged Ed
Ethically challenged Alberta CEO Ed Stelmach continues the Tired Old Tory tradition of protecting that ultimate special interest group; Tory Cabinet Ministers and MLA's. Smelling pending doom they quickly trashed Ed's first promise as Premier; accoun...
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Ed Deserts His Scud Stud
Bad enough Ralph Klein's Brain; Rod Love, doesn't support the Scud Stud (despite his back pedaling denials), but neither does his leader; Farmer Ed.As Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid reports;Tory leader Ed Stelmach stood up his star Calgary candid...
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Ed Gets No Love
I am surprised more folks have not picked up on this earthshaking political shift. Ralph Klein's Brain supporting a Liberal.The Scud Stud can't get no Love. Rod Love, the one-time top adviser to former Conservative premier Ralph Klein, remarked Tue...
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Liberals Empty Promises
It is not just the Tired Old Tories that are making empty promises this election, so are the Alberta Liberals. They suffer from the me too syndrome.Liberal Leader Kevin Taft reiterated today his pledge for "an absolute cap on greenhouse gas emissions...
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Wait For It
Ed promises more doctors and the Harpocrites promise reduced wait times. Yet in Alberta hospital beds are closed and basic surgery wait times are increasing. That is the Conservative legacy. Including the legacy of building hospitals during the Lough...
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Ed Promises More Temporary Workers
Another unrealistic election pledge by Ed leader of the Party With No Plan. Like his more doctors pledge, this too relies on hiring more temporary workers from other countries.Premier Ed Stelmach made a campaign stop in Red Deer today to announce da...
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Careful Of What You Ask For
Some Liberal bloggers in Alberta are wondering why there will only be one leaders debate during the upcoming election.Because this is Alberta and the Legislature only has one 'official' sitting.They should be careful of what they ask for. The charism...
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Gee I Said That
Here.Red Deer Advocate Editorial , Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008Amazingly, the Conservatives — who have been in power since 1971 — are campaigning under the slogan “Change that works for Albertans.” They are apparently determined to run against thei...
