Ahh I have been due for a good laugh. Today while on the road I was listening to Charles Adler on the radio (national show). National Post journalist Kevin Libin was being interviewed and the subject was Libin’s trip to Alberta where he investigated and then wrote about the stunning growth of the Wildrose Alliance Party in Alberta. His article is here. The article was great and the interview was better. Libin sees the growing discontent with Stelmach in Alberta.
What got my funny bone going however was the next guest on the show. Adler had leadership candidate Danielle Smith on the show and announced that leadership candidate Mark Dyrholm will be a guest on his show next week.
One of the first callers was Mark Norris. You see Norris is a failed leadership candidate for Ed’s job. Mark left government as a sore loser and is now pouting on the sidelines. It is clear that Norris still has aspirations though and hopes to replace Stelmach in the future. The fear was clear as day in Mark’s voice as he attacked and spouted the usual diatribes of “redneck” and such and really made a pathetic defence of the Stelmach regime.
We doubtless will be seeing more of this in the months and years to come. The self-entitled Alberta PCs are finding themselves losing funding and members on every front as their inept governance works towards ending their nearly 40 year dynasty in Alberta. These folks are in panic and it is showing.
If the defense of the PCs made by Norris is the best they can do, the Wildrose Alliance may very well be in majority government in a few years.
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Again Norris, thanks for the chuckle.
Good write up and I also found Norris entertaining.
They are terrified!
In 1921 Henry Wise Wood was interviewed by a reporter from the Edmonton Bulletin.
The reported asked Wise Wood, how the United Farmers could govern the province instead of the Liberals or Conservatives if they don’t have experience.
Wise Wood told the reporter, “The United Farmers may not have any experience but by god we will form government anyways!”
Its hilarious. Stelmachs re-election campaign will be based on correcting all the errors made in his first full term. I don’t think there are any true conservatives left in the APC, there is no way they could hold their noses this long.