77 Replies to “Redford is G-G-Gone ! ! !”

  1. Just heard it. Holy crap! Now can we get Great Leader Kim Dong Wynne out of Owe-tario?

  2. And not even a hint from Redford that her own behaviour had anything to do with her resigning. Typical lefty.

  4. Hmmm….This was circulating this morning-
    The Pope and Premier Redford are on the balcony of the Legislature in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans towards Premier Redford and says,
    “Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, but will go deep into their hearts and they’ll forever speak of this day and rejoice!”
    Redford replied, “I seriously doubt that! With one little wave of your hand…. Show me!”
    So the Pope backhanded her and knocked her off the balcony!
    AND THE CROWD ROARED & CHEERED WILDLY and there was happiness throughout Alberta!
    Kind of brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it? !?

  7. Well the media got what they wanted, to stupid to let someone do their job, 45,000 out of a budget of 45 billion, big deal but media people are to stupid to do the math, they just repeat what they want to happen and the dullards join in. If anyone thinks Slow White and her dwarfs all named Dopey will do better they are sorely mistaken, her strings are pulled by a few silver spooners, not the business people of Alberta. Well done Mr. Braid you and the idiots on QR led the charge. Now what?

  8. I actually wish she’d stayed on a bit more, to further poison the brand. It’s 3 more years to the next scheduled election.

  10. Can’t believe it happened so quickly, and for such paltry amounts of money. But then, I am from Ont, where no shame, public embarrassment, wasted Billions, and totally inept energy planning, could get our pretend premier to think of stepping down. I’m sure Wynne viewed Redford as a howling success. How I envy Alberta.

  12. “She will stay on as the MLA for Calgary-Elbow…
    Let me finish that sentence for ya
    …until her friends in the Ivory Set find her another position that allows her to continue to feed off hard-working folks”

  14. Marvelous!!! Ding dong the witch is dead — long live the new PC judas goat – Alberta’s agenda 21 sell out is not complete yet.

  15. Nenshi is such a putz. What an enbarassment. Calling her a great person. Couldn’t wait to put his fat stupid mug on TV.

  16. Some things are worth the money, regardless of the cost. Alison the Red would have cost much, much more had she finagled her way out of her own mess. ‘Tis a day for rejoicing!

  17. At least she had enough sense to resign when it became apparent that she had no support from her party. Hopefully the conservatives will tweak their selection process so that someone like her cannot claim the crown when they have so little support from the rank and file.

  18. What’s the difference between Ally Redfraud and the NDP leader?
    Hair colour and their genders

  20. Don’t worry Bart, they will find another socialist to take over and it will be business as usual in no time.

  24. Posted on the CBC link and will be interesting to see if my post gets past moderation:
    Good riddance to the first NDP premier of Alberta. Hopefully Danielle Smith will be the next premier.
    That was the short version. What I would have added would be that Danielle Smith is welcome as premier only if:
    (a) she undergoes 2 days worth of briefings on C68
    (b) she agrees to kick the HRGT out of Alberta.

  26. Re: Bartinsky @8:43
    This was not about the $45,000. That was simply one more straw slowly breakingr45z5f the camels back. She was doomed from Day 1 when it was disclosed that she had pandered to the unions to win the party leadership race over Gary Mar. I predicted then that the party would revolt, I’m just surprised it took so long. The November/13 leadership review was a carefully scripted farce, from the selection of the delegates to not including the hundreds of delegates that abstained from voting not being considered in the approval rating.
    She should have resigned before paying back the $45,000. How did she not see this day coming?

  27. There does seem to be a lot of this resignation of premiers business going around. First McDoofus, now Redfraud.
    I view it as a good sign.
    Now, if we could only get that twinky Hudak to abdicate from the Ontario PCs…

  28. Yes the teachers union was her biggest supporter ,and then she left them like a cheap trick

  29. On the other hand.
    The would be queen is gone. Good.
    Who is gearing up to replace her.
    Here is a list:
    Hancock, the guy that was respected until he started talking stupid. Said things like those that are offended by the premiers spending pattern are against premier’s family …… pure garbage.
    Horne, see Hancock.
    Lukaszuk, did not say much, run interference to protect his boss.
    Horner, see Lukaszuk.
    Many of you did not hear the “journalists” talking. Usually they say that “someone else said it” or “this is what they say” or refer to the “experts”, you can be sure that they talk to the “experts” that they agree with.
    They would say that the premier was brilliant, smart and all those other things that the same “journalists” attribute to certain president south of the border.
    It appears that those politicians that can tell a lie with sophistication, can say things as “what does it matter at this time”, can use public money as though they are emperors and the peasants and the working stiffs should STFU and pay up, are the clever, wise, smart, brilliant and other such.
    It is no wonder that the independent minded people think that politicians and “journalists” are the bottom, sort of the scum of society, much like Chekhov would write about.

  30. Thanks for the Sun link.
    Reading CBC and the comments is akin to nails on the blackboard.
    One typical CBC commenter: Alberta Rednecks are not ready for a woman leader.

  31. exactly, It’s “our fault”
    uff.
    I’d be ready for M. Thatcher, she was a woman.

  34. There were two polls at the SUN Tv site an hour ago, one for, do you agree that she should resign, and will it help the party. Both are gone now, replaced it seems with one regarding the federal finance minister.
    The poll at the Calgary Sun newspaper asks if I take Calgary Transit to work. Strange that it isn’t yet updated.
    A poll remains at the Calgary Herald, “Did she do the right thing”.
    The National Post doesn’t have a poll atm.
    I don’t really look at the other media companies in Canada, unless there’s reason to, i.e. a good link…

  36. It made for entertaining talk radio while day after day there were new blunders exposed and day after day she’d tell us it’s not against the rules so she had nothing to apologize for, then would anyways while announcing an investigation to change the rules she broke. I’m almost afraid of who will replace her, the whole devil you know thing. After all they will be handed a two year term at the helm of the good ship Alberta without a mandate from the passengers.

  37. If anyone is miffed at how some senators have abused public funds for their own personal benefit, they should be doubly incensed by Ms. Redford’s conduct.
    Her removal had almost nothing to do with her left-wing ideology.
    A bit of a timeline (some of this may never hit the MSM) :
    By the end of last week (Thursday) about twenty PC MLAs had agreed to cross the floor on Monday and form an independent Conservative party. They had the paperwork ready for filing. There was a caucus meeting on Sunday where Redford pleaded (well not pleaded – likely more like argued) to remain as leader and that she would change her imperious ways (she was a recluse compared to Nixon). Most of the caucus relented on pressing for her resignation.
    On Monday she made this promise to be a new Alison publicly. The rank and file of the PCs were having none of it however. And almost all of the riding associations revolted and organized a meeting where they would vote to insist on her removal – a remarkable repudiation of the PC MLAs. That became public today. The entire party elite has been found wanting. It’s difficult to see how they survive as a party after the next election.
    And now she’s gone.
    I know and deal with lots of people who have diametrically opposite political views than I have. Several I consider to be good friends – some of them among my very best. And while I might hate their views, I don’t hate them. The Alberta NDP leader, Mr. Mason, I find to be a very agreeable and approachable person.
    Alison Redford struck me as a very hateful person. And I found her easy to hate. I don’t think I am alone. It is notable that when she ran for leader, if memory serves, she was only able to get the endorsement of just a handful of her fellow MLAs. The night she won the leadership the hall went into a collective shock.

  38. Glad to see Redford leaving and I expected it to happen next week not this one since I thought the PC party would need that long to arrange a safe landing for her. As to who will replace her I don’t know that there are any potential leaders amongst elected MLAs. I would hope some of said elected PC MLAs would take Redford’s lead and resign as well. However I think the best leader they could hope for, Steven Mandel, is not a MLA and I don’t know if he would even want the job which would include cleaning up a real mess from 40 years of power attracting some real scuzz buckets.

  40. Ontario is a welfare state now. Alberta is not. Martin your problem in Ontario is not the same problem. Alberta is still a Province of productive people so little mistakes from leadership are inexcusable to the “working class”. Ontario is dominated in the electoral process of those with their hands out; they don’t want examples or leadership, they just want what they want. Godspeed.

  41. I for one would still love to know if it was she who gave the order for the Queen’s cowboys to go kicking in the doors of High River gun owners.

  43. Good one Duncan!
    Glad the bitter, entitled cow is gone. Flaherty is gone. Things are looking up a bit, but I doubt it will last.

  44. Mandel and dinning are likely candidates. Both are well to the left of Alberta voters. Hard to see how they can resurrect this broken, aimless and corrupt party.

  45. Bartinsky – it’s not the $45,000; it’s Premier Redford’s attitude that she is entitled. Our Prime Minister – with former Prime Ministers – were the official Canadian presence at Mr. Mandela’s funeral. Provincial Premiers were an optional extra on that trip. There were thrifty alternatives for travel, but the Premier – or her staff – chose the priciest; and that doesn’t include the ‘necessity’ of having an aide along, flying first class to and from South Africa. It would have been cheaper to re-schedule the swearing in of the new cabinet; Alberta would not have fallen apart had the event been postponed for a day or so.
    And then there’s the trips with her daughter and buds. Out in the real world, expensing the buds would be a firing offence. And, at the very least, the daugher’s expenses – paid as they were by the Premier’s employer (as in Albertans) – should be a “taxable benefit”. Check CRA rules.
    Finally, she played the “mummy” card. Frankly, I was disgusted. I know too many mothers and fathers who are struggling to make ends meet and yet give their children the proper time and attention. Heard of one young mother who was back at work less than two months after giving birth because the business of which she was an owner would go under unless she returned. Now that’s a tough situation. Ask many seniors these days: they’re back-up for their children in a way that didn’t happen a generation ago, being there to ensure the grandchildren don’t suffer. These people are sacrificing in a way that the Premier would never understand.
    And then there’s her staff: seriously overpaid and under-competent. If the stories out there are to be believed, the senior staff around the Premier consider themselves the elite, above we the plebs who exist only to provide the necessary funds and who should be properly grateful that they have deigned to be our overlords. Given their exalted salaries, they should be superheroes; instead they have proved to be great only at expanding their leader’s entitlements. It is probably no coincidence that “independents” such as Alberta Health Services was seriously top-heavy, given to handing out sweet-heart contracts, and handing out golden handshakes to those who quit (alright, not all the current Premier’s fault): the Premier could have acted decisively early on and shot down top-heavy bureaucracies and, more to the point, led by example. Instead, she top-loaded her own office with highly-paid sycophants who applauded her every expenditure.
    Relieved Ms Redord has stepped down; am cringing at the though of the payouts to the entitled who are serving “at her pleasure” (as I believe the description is of those whose jobs are tied to the leader) but who – sans doute – have negotiated contracts guaranteeing substantial payouts in anticipation of just this event.

  46. Very interesting indeed, Gord. The 20 MLAs is completely news to me. And you’re right, of course it had nothing to do with ideology. The PCs can read poll numbers, and every week this went on they were sinking like stones.
    “The entire party elite has been found wanting. It’s difficult to see how they survive as a party after the next election.”
    They should not survive. Danielle Smith is right. After more than 40 years in power, this party is done. It needs to spend a good long time in opposition, summarily purge all the dead wood it has. Alberta doesn’t need two right wing parties, one of which only pretends. The only issue for me at this point is the WR disciplined enough not to have policy explosions in public like last election.

  49. I don’t think there is any space left in the PROGRESSIVE party for a Conservative, that’s why we’re all over at the WildRose Party.

  50. Watching the resignation, I was reminded of what Orwell said:
    “At age fifty, we have the face we deserve.”
    Later,on CTV, I spotted Don Martin feather his nest by tipping Jim Dinning.

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