BC Blue; (link fixed)
The moronic Bridgette DePape admitted in an iPoltics interview that she was hired by the group Public Interest Alberta (see here) led by Larry Booi who is was also president of the Alberta Teachers Association [that] helped get Alison Redford installed as leader of the PC Party.
Via a reader who advises that there's a $100,000 fine for failing to register as a paid lobbyist in Alberta.











special interest groups , didnt Nurse Redford warn us against them , oh yes.
Kate, is the BC Blue link correct?
She says "I think" quite a bit. Means she doesn't know.
Nurse Ratched,I thought Red Ali reminded me of someone.
Two chances that is going to be investigated - fat and slim.
I would expect that if a formal complaint is made with the appropriate elections authority, it would have to be investigated. Kate, would you do the honours?
If Ontario can survive the one term Boobrae years and two consecutive sentences of "Moms" McGuilty,
Alberta should look upon four years of Butros Butros REDford as conferring permanent immunity against
further leftist rule. It ain't going to be pretty, but Alberta will make it.
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I just want her to get a good spanking like all misbehaving children should get.
It's all about her and her feelings. They're soooo much more important than what other people think. That attitude makes me want to vomit.
It does make sense that the teachers union would be sending her out to show how little she knows. After all, they taught that null to her.
"I just want her to get a good spanking like all misbehaving children should get."
I'm afraid we all know who is going to get the spanking over the next 4 years and it sure won't be her. Those nasty right wingers with their talk of lakes of fire and balancing books have PO'ed Alison Redford big time and they will pay.
Sickening watching Ontario liberals ensure the Alberta election results mirrored Ontarios.
Alberta had a chance to take this type of crap out in one shot, but they ran back to mommy. It is like abusive parent syndrome on a grand scale.
On a brighter note we are starting to deal with that experience issue. Ms Smith said yesterday she would announce her shadow cabinit. So in four we went from nothing to enough be able to do that.
That great progressive FDR was right public servants should not be allowed to form a union.
You know your government is way out control when you are using fdr advice to prove your point.
The reason that Sask is now the Canadian shining light is because they have Brad Wall. They have Brad Wall because the smear brigade from Eastern Canada didn't cover the election. They want everyone to look and act like them and Albertans took the bait with their apparently low self esteem.
Bridgett dePape was mentored in the senate by Sharon Carstairs. Both are Manitobans and ms Carstairs was a teacher before becoming Leader of the Liberal Party in Manitoba.
Some days it gets a little discouraging for those of us who are getting a little long in the tooth. It seems that the advance or regaining of liberty in a socialist dominated society is a loosing battle and all the powerful interests are opposed and using every underhanded means possible.
Reading the above, after listing to the fellow last evening that rents our land tell me about his normally conservative minded daughter coming home from her grade 12 class spouting an anti-American rant, is discouraging.
One of my sons-in-law, a fairly new grade 3 teacher in west side Saskatoon school, tells me that he dare not discuss politics, as it would be career damaging.
Has the whole educational system been corrupted by Marxism?
If it is investigated I am sure it will be done just as vigourously as the kick back scheme the PC party had with the cities and municipalities.
The Mounties will never find Redfords friends guilty of anything.
But she's not a lobbyist, she's an activist!
Isn't there a law againt holding up "don't vote for this person signs" within a certain radius of electoral stations? I know elections canada only investigates ndp robo conspiracies, but this is redonkulous.
I dont know, I think her white gloves were hot, hot, hot!
Public Interest Alberta is the combined efforts of Alberta's different unions. Larry Booi isn't just the former president of the ATA, he's the president at the time of the provincial strike...the result of years of effort to synchronize all the locals' contracts to come due at the same time to force the government into quasi-provincial bargaining.
Blah.
The $500.00 tax credit for all teachers was probably a strong incenitive to vote PC. I wonder if that is considered buying votes?
Wonder how Elections Alberta will decide ...
Here's the first link.
It's a pretty good bet that Miss DePape was the beneficiary of some intense coaching from the sidelines. I don't believe that the ability to form rational thoughts is one of her strong points. I will also give Albertans some credit for not having their vote swayed by some silly little schoolgirl holding a mindless sign.
It would have been interesting if the interviewer had asked DePape to define homophobic and received a blank look in response. I think that simply spelling the word would have been a challenge.
She calls Danielle Smith a "climate change denier" - LOL.
They need to double the fines for stupid.
She creeps me out a bit. She's like a robot. Everything she says is a boilerplate talking point; she doesn't seem to have any individuality at all. There's a real Stepford activist quality to her.
As others have suggested, the group to be worried about is "Public Interest Alberta", a pressure group consisting of various Alberta public unions.
De Pape is merely a prop. I'm actually a bit surprised PIA would advertise themselves in this manner.
The latte left's electoral successes every where are given a huge boost whenever some on right spout unending obsessions with religious and social issues.
I just want her to get a good spanking like all misbehaving children should get.
She's not a child. She knew exactly what she was doing. Children should get spankings. Those who aid and abet enemies of the Queen should get gunshot wounds to the head.
During the election I kept wondering why Danielle Smith wasn't escorted in all public places by armed bodyguards willing and able to make DePape lie down the second she so much as gave Smith a dirty look. As far as I knew Smith wasn't safe.
If you think I'm just being excitable again, recall that every major US presidential candidate gets a Secret Service detail. Nobody who valued his life would have dared even try to get that close to Ron Paul without permission, never mind Barack Obama.
(It's clear now, of course, that Smith wasn't worried about herself---she'd already been turned. It's much easier to laugh this sort of thing off when you're in on the joke.)
A little Manson'y for my tastes, remember when they went after Gerald Ford.
Dear little Miss dePape will do quite well in life, fear not. She's young and cute and doors will always be opened for her by the older generation of activists who just love encountering someone who is as indoctrinated as THEY are.
She will either work in a cushy job with a "charity" such as Greenpeace,or for a political Party,NDP,Green,or worst of all, a Teacher, propagandizing a new generation of kids with her communist/green propaganda.
But whatever she does in her life, rest assured the good old Canadian Taxpayer will foot the bill!
Sickening watching Ontario liberals ensure the Alberta election results mirrored Ontarios.
But it's so delightful to hear small dead teabagging minds singing the blues.
Dick Slater - "excitable"? Not exactly. "Gunshot wounds to the head" forsooth.
Knight 99 - yeah, she is "Mansony".
Has the whole educational system been corrupted by Marxism?
@ Ken (Kulak) at April 26, 2012 10:14 AM
In the late 1960s William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Mark Rudd were trying to bring about a violent overthrow of the US Government by setting off explosives. It didn't quite work out. So they changed tactics. Now they are in the academia. Brainwashing impressionable minds is easier in that setting.
It's odd that Ayers has been allowed into the White House though Canadian Border Services Agency won't let him set foot in the country.
phil at April 26, 2012 12:38 PM
"But it's so delightful to hear small dead teabagging minds singing the blues."
So what you are saying is we are throughing ourselves into the lake of fire now.
I am having a shirt made that says " If you voted pc and blow .05 I guess it sucks to be you"
Before the church police pounce it should be throwing.
"...her father is the vice-president of the Save Our Seine, a non-profit organization with a mandate to protect, preserve and enhance the Seine River within Winnipeg."
Moonbattery: It's in the blood.
ron in kelowna ∴ at 11:57 AM
Yup, and the sooner they learn to keep their personal bias personal, the better!!!!
Look it......I am as disappointed as the next WRA supporter..but we made it through Ed Stelmach's reign of stupidty....so we can make it through Redford's reign of leftism....I lived 45 years in Saskatchewan with the soul sucking NDP and I just turned 65 six weeks ago....so I can pretty well survive any idiot politician...I particularly dislike Red Ali...but no worse than Allan Blakeney, Roy Romanow, or Lorne Calvert. They are all cut from the same cloth.....so for the next four years I will just ignore her and her cabble of duffusses and be ready for the next election and try and help the WRA anyway I can !
I thought her 15 minutes of fame were done. I guess the CBC didn't pick her up as a political commentator.
Mooner, thanks for that note of optimism. Makes me feel better. The disease is so imbedded that it seems freedom loving people are always coming in from behind and the average Joe or Jane doesn't give a rat's a** unless and until he is personally affected.
Man! Yet ANOTHER De Pape Smear.
Mooner >
Bingo!
Nothing more to it than that. They've been here all along, most people just didn't know it for what it was. That has all changed now.
This isn't lobbying. Lobbying is contact with government officials, elected or appointed, for purposes of altering or changing government policy by direct contact. The lobby registry is to compel disclosure of communications and meetings.
What Ms. DuPape was doing was very public, and hence not violating any part of the statute on lobbying. Now the fact that she was paid by Public Interest Alberta only poses a legal problem for Public Interest if they are a registered charity or any other clauses in their charter which would prevent such activity. If not, then she can't be touched.
@mooner
All in all things are not so bad.
The 17 seats we got the pc lost for good like myself there is no going back. Also since they are the lions share the agriculture government can not punish them with hurting what little they have left.
We will be able to set up a shadow government something the pc have not had to deal with since 1993.
Redford will have more difficulty will loony left bills with a repeal party in opposition.
With 26 opposition seats all hacking at the same beast it will be long 4 years for the pcs.
Last but most important when writ went down all the issues that were there are still there the biggest one being redford.
Over the next four years people will figure out they were lied to about us and as history shows they do not like that.
Ever forward
Ford Prefect >
Let’s also not forget to mention that many of the other seats the PC maintained were marginal wins, by the skin of their teeth. Definitely not the landslides they are accustomed to.
Meaning that nearly half the voters in those ridings voted WRP and just narrowly missed the majority to gain the seat. They aren’t going away either.
DePape has demonstrated against the Alberta oil sands.
So the Alberta Teachers Association hired someone who is trying to shut down the industry that pays much of the teachers' salaries.
nold wrote:
I'm afraid we all know who is going to get the spanking over the next 4 years and it sure won't be her. Those nasty right wingers with their talk of lakes of fire and balancing books have PO'ed Alison Redford big time and they will pay.
Er, I don't think you understand the situation at all.
The civil war that's been going on between various factions of Alberta conservatives hasn't ended — it's intensified.
Watch for Premier Redford to get very uncomfortable in the mandatory leadership review coming up. Everybody's Second Choice, Mark Two didn't even do as well as Stelmach (Everybody's Second Choice, Mark One) did in the last provincial election, and he was effectively neutered after the leadership review and was gone within eighteen months or so.
The Interesting Times are probably going to get a lot more interesting...
Ford get one printed up stating: I lost my car, my life savings for driving whilst legally sober.
Oh Ford Perfect is expounding again, like the resounding WRP majority Ford, where is it? Like I tried to say a week ago, throw out candidates that are and were useless and keep the good ones. Your WRP voters were soooo smart, here in Livingstone they were so horny for Danielle even though she was one riding over, they voted in a seismic man who doesn't even live in the riding! Sorry Ford, that does not say a lot about the collective intelligence of a WRP voter, ranks right up there with the Orange Wave of Quebec in May, voting in candidates that don't even show up to candidate forums or live in the constituency. Voting WRP was like just clamouring for a place on the Forrest Gump bandwagon with headliners like Hunsperger, and thats a bandwagon a lot of more enlightened Albertans thankfully did not jump on to.
She creeps me out a bit. She's like a robot. Everything she says is a boilerplate talking point; she doesn't seem to have any individuality at all. There's a real Stepford activist quality to her.
Black Mamba
Not unlike the regulars @ SDA.
@bartinski
I am having a tee shirt made up this weekend that says.
"Progressives vote to save non hetros from lake of fire."
So are you going to ride Redford hard like you did Eddy?
How much do you think Redford hst tax will be?
Since she thinks the science - that will never show it work - is settled do you think she will bring in a carbon tax?
Gee your right your pick sounds great how silly of us.
The hunsperger thing is getting boring so for new fun you might be able to use, my grand father was a Orthodox
Jew and my grand mother was german dads side and my mother was a yankee. I am sure you whip something pithy up with that.
Sorry kate about wasting space like this I will send a donation tonight.
Do you have any opinions about farmers, phil? Just curious.