More Alberta Election

[ASRG]

Our constituency Wildrose election campaign has been holding townhalls across the riding. It is very interesting how ready the rural areas are for a new government? They don't seem to be buying Redfords "Alberta needs a fundamental character change"!

People are mad! They've pretty well had a bellyful of the PC government!

Of course we always get a PC heckler in the crowd but the young candidate has got pretty good at shutting them up! They usually slink out of the hall after some old farmer tells them to get the hell out!(and no....it's not me!)

The land theft bills come up again and again.....it is actually pretty amazing that people get it and don't buy for a minute the government lies!

I don't know about the cities, but all this gnashing of teeth about gay marriage and abortion, doesn't get much interest out in the country?

It is more about power bills, property rights, crumby healthcare, higher property taxes, water concerns, and the government trying to tell you how you must teach your kids that every degenerate thing under the sun is acceptable!

I'm pretty happy that in our rural riding people are showing common sense instead of running off after some "goofy UN utopia"!

[daretodiffer]

Ah the Wildrose, the party of clock repeal. Science, who needs the gobbldegook, gender biology, nothing but a disease that can be cured, women's health, just a city issue, out here let the men deal with it, climate change, no polar bears and sea ice here (but I kind of did like it when we could see the Athabasca Glacier). No such contentious issues out here, where men are men and women are proud of it.

[rkaiser]

And the climate has never changed before this in the last few million years that this planet has been around. I don't think that Wild Rose is against cleaning up pollution and looking after the environment, just a little more realistic when it comes to our effect on the earth atmosphere. The Sun, or some of those other things in our Universe that are just a tiny bit bigger than us have some effect don"t they?...LOL

Always room for other opinions hey daretodiffer.

As for the Party Line on social issues. Wild Rose is the first party in years to actually let democracy decide-- In my humble opinion..

You can go out to the good pastors riding and knock down his signs if you like. Free province we live in after all.

[grassfarmer]

Interesting how the media can swing a whole lot of
public opinion based on a couple of stories. This
whole idea in recent days that the Wildrose party
stands for bigotry has certainly seemed to fool a lot
of younger, urban voters if you read the posts on
Facebook.
With the alleged anti-gay smear it doesn't take
much investigation to see that some of the PCs
share exactly the same views. Morton in particular
has proven by his previous actions on the issue
while Redford was a member of the same party and
not making a big outcry about it then. Now she is
the high and mighty defender of gay rights. Sheer
hypocrisy.
Better not get onto the issue of gay marriage and
anyone's opposition to it - remember Morton has
already written the bill that allows cabinet to revoke
all licenses (including marriage licenses) at the
stroke of a pen. So he, and his PC caucus, already
controls exactly who can be married in this province
- gay or straight.

On the issue of the alleged racial comments how
about playing the whole tape including the question
asked? This was a deliberate reporter set trap asking
him whether being white in a riding with a large
indo-Canadian community and a Sikh incumbent
was a disadvantage. He could either answer "yes" he
was at a disadvantage which in an election
campaign is a sign of weakness, almost asking for
defeat or he could answer "no" and say he didn't feel
he was at a disadvantage as he could speak for
everyone in the constituency.
I don't see how anyone can construe his answer as a
"racial slur" given the context. Just mischief making
by opposition interests or media interests trying to
create a story. Sadly elections everywhere are
decided by the kind of voter who doesn't have the
smarts or interest to study these things in the detail
required to understand the facts. In the 10 second
media clip age we live in perceptions are real, facts
are negotiable.