municipal taxes?

[coppertop]

It will be very interesting to see whether there will be some resolution to the ongoing conflict prior to the municipal election next October. I would imagine there will be some new faces on both sides, so possibly a new dynamic will evolve.

[cowman]

coppertop: And also some interesting political opportunities? Whoever wraps himself in the biggest "municipal flag" sure can stir up the heat!
Not sure if that is a good thing as it might deflect from all their other faults?
Politics is quite a game!

[cowman]

We get a local weekly that is a really good paper. They have a reporter(Johnny Bakusky) who is pretty good! His editorial this week is a good one! He points out that he said this whole thing was going to happen...and has quotes from a whole bunch of councillors accusing him of fearmongering and making up stories and lying about their intentions!
He pointed out very clearly...just who were the liars! A really good editorial!
It is really funny how this paper has one view, while the local daily(Red Deer Advocate) has a totally different view? The Red Deer Advocate is about as left leaning socialist as you can get...why they even make the Edmonton Journal look like a Conservative rag!
The editorial yesterday in the Advocate was one long rip of Ed Stelmach and his cabinet! They basically called him a dumb hick Ukrainian farmer with a bunch of dumb hick bagmen around him! Then they whined and snivelled how Red Deer never got a cabinet minister and a few quotes from that idiot Flewelling about how this government was ignoring the urban centers!

[coppertop]

And all this complaining before the new Premier has even led a session in the legislature, and before anyone knows what is in the 2007 budget !!!!

Red Deer is joining Calgary and Edmonton on the whiners chorus ! I am very pleased to see so many rural cabinet members, and many of them come from small urban centers, NOT out on the farm anyhow. Lloyd Snellgrove was a councillor in the Town of Vermillion, hardly a country hick.
Iris Evans is from Strathcona County which isn't your average small back woods rural area !!

Maybe the people in Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer will take a long look at the people they have elected to municipal council positions, and decide to make some changes at home. My bet is that if Mark Norris decides to run for Mayor of Edmonton, Mandel will be out on his rear.

[cowman]

Like I said before "The boss has to be the boss"! This is the guy we have and no matter what...he is our... go to guy!
I believe Ed Stelmach will do what he believes is right and I doubt he is petty enough to favor one area over another? Yep, the cities have problems, and yep the rural areas do too!
Come on, this guy didn't get where he is by being some sort of retard? He knows what he has to do to keep ALL of Alberta happy?
We may have all had our favorite...but the fact is this: This is our premier...and we need to get behind him and support him? It is really disgusting that the cities are playing this silly game? Just my opinion.

[coppertop]

I think that once the house begins sitting and the cities realize that their MLA's have the same opportunity to take forward their issues as do the rural ones, then perhaps they will chill out and get on with looking after their municipal business.
I think a lot of it is posturing at this point, trying to impress their own citizens with lots of press on how they feel slighted etc. It will only get worse as 2007 progresses, election years are really ' silly season'. Ed will do everything he can to be fair and ensure that all Albertans are heard, regardless of where they live or what type of idiots they have elected municipally.