Rules are for the little people: Only days after she sent a letter to the speaker of the Alberta legislature saying she would be absent from her duties as a sitting MLA for reasons of illness, bereavement or government business, former premier Alison Redford has been spotted dining in an Italian restaurant in Palm Springs, Calif.
Why is her poorly taught spawn not in school
I hope the Speaker decides the “honorary” member is worthy of being paid.
It makes a much better election issue if she is… and it’s only a matter of a few thousands.
or as the former PM Chretien use to say, “small town cheap” .
Once you work for the UN , the sense of entitlement lasts a lifetime I guess. There are pigs at the trough and then there are the professional pigs at the trough. She is a true professional.
We dodged a bullet in the 1990s, picking conservative Ralph Klein over progressive Nancy Betkowski in a squeaker vote for PC party leader. Don Getty had blundered Alberta’s finances so badly in the late 80s that it became necessary for the PCs to not even mention the party’s name in campaign literature and posters; it was Ralph’s Team instead. Klein basically reinvented the party as the (progressive) Conservative party, and personally enjoyed 80%+ approval ratings in the polls – show me another political leader in a democracy with those numbers, anywhere, ever.
And then Ralph’s health faltered and the Progressive wing took over. It’s been a downhill slide ever since. With Redford, we got what we would have gotten 20 years ago with Betkowski – cooked books, wild spending, lavish perks for the Premier… but I’ll give Betkowski the benefit of the doubt over the High River gun grab.
Something tells me we’ll have another woman Premier in Alberta after the next election – and that the PC party is going to join the Socreds, UFA, and Liberals and never win again.
Having met the gracious, charming, and whip-smart leader of the Wildrose Alliance on a visit to Alberta last year, I share your hope that she is successful in the next election. But having had victory snatched away in the last election, her enemies will stop at nothing to destroy her and her party next time as well.
Nothing better than grieving the loss of your Leadership Role in the sun of the desert.
I think there should be a flowering cactus sent to the Alberta Legislature for Monday morning and strategically placed in the seat where Alison should be sitting!!!
Allison Redford..Cactus Queen…
The one problem I see with the Wildrose party is that they have swallowed the global warming coolade. We really need a party that stands up against this scam.
I’m not sure that’s the case..and why did you change the subject that way..?..
Like I just don’t get what Danny Smith the Rosers are waiting for – Now that PC sell out to UN-Ottawa styled corruption is in the open, now thy are exposed as the defacto Alberta Librano party – finish them off fergawdsake!!
Demand house inquiries into WHO sent the Stalin’s horsemen into high River homes
Demand a judicial review of the changed land rights policies
Demand a full audit of PC entitlement gluttony
Keep that PC stink under everybody’s nose until the writ is dropped.
GET IT ON!!
No doubt losing leadership, being forced to resign would make any leader sick. Redford is living out the adage,”you can run but you can’t hide”. Sorry for her young daughter, an innocent in all this political drama.
I keep thinking the local riding association will not put up with this and take some action. It appears they are quite happy to watch this go on. And where is the Wildrose?
If you think 308 parasites in the House of Commons are too many, wait till there are 338.
I notice that while illness, bereavement and business outside the legislature are listed as legitimate reasons for being absent from the legislature, hubris was not included.
Methinks Ally Oops will be counting canned strawberries soon
While it can be said that it is wise not to interrupt your enemy while he is destroying himself, I do wish the WRP gave me a reason to vote For them. So far the only idea they have seems to be “We are not the PCs”. Fortunately Herbie Hancock seems to show the benefit of not voting PC more and more each day. I do find it instructive that no one wants the job of PC leader. Yes Ken Hughes has put his name forward but I believe it is so he can be the lovable looser like you see in professional wrestling,
Bereavement is a legitimate reason for her absence. Her political future has died and she is in mourning. (I’m betting when she returns she will resign her seat.)
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SHE JUST DOESN’T GET IT!! THE STUPID IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE!!
” Sorry for her young daughter, an innocent in all this political drama.”
The really unfortunate thing is that the young Redford is getting an education into how things are done in the household from which she is from. If daddy isn’t of strong character in the picture, there won’t be any balance to all these shenanigans, the results may well be amplified in this next generation.
emailed a friend who’s in Palm Springs, asking if she’d spotted the Red Queen.
She replied:
Actually we had dinner with her and she said that she really appreciates the people of alberta funding her vacation
Just wondering if you remember when PM Brian Mulroney was about to raise the number of seats in Parliament,and was questioned on the necessity of it.
Mulroney replied that for Canadians to be properly represented , we should have 800-900 MP’s.
I guess he had lots of friends who needed government jobs.
Redford is a great example to the people of Canada of the type of person we DO NOT want representing themselves in politics. I say “themselves” because they sure as hell don’t represent us.
What’s really interesting is how other politicians are circling the wagon.
I can understand Hancock, as interim premier, saying ‘move along, nothing to see here.’
What I’m surprised at is Brian Mason coming to Redford’s defence.
Not sure what he’s afraid of, but maybe the peasants will start to question why Alberta has such a huge bureaucracy, which is also plagued with scandal … like the former AHS head Aladin (not sure of his last name).
There’s plenty of entitlement within the entire setup and defenders of bigger government are rightfully afraid that another Ralph Klein will emerge.
Of course, that’s exactly what Alberta needs — somebody to clean out the bloodsuckers’ nests.
Ronald Reagan was once offered a mule as a gift. He declined, saying he already had “several hundred of them up there on Capitol Hill”.
Thanks for the Mulroney response. Ever wondered why the HoC headcount can only go up but not come down? That’s because of Brian Mulroney. On a related matter, we have frequently heard about NATO expansion. Have we ever heard of NATO contraction?
Rizwan – Are you aware of the fact that every ten years the House of Commons must re-evaluate representation due to population changes? Not sure if it is in the constitution but it is legislated somewhere. Still doesn’t negate the representation imbalances but it helps. Bear in mind that PEI has 4 MPs (total population is about 120.000) where as Calgary north a decade or so back had over 200,000 within its boundary.
Some balancing is still required, however, given today’s technology there are more than enough MPs and only a redistibution should be necessary, but how do you take some MPs away from one province and give to another province?
My point is that as much as you would like to blame the PM for expanding the numbers in the H. of C., you cannot!
It doesn’t seem like the irony of Redford’s demise resounds within Canadian discussion. Yes, a politican caught at the trough taking a direct benefit. I understand that is easy to grasp.
As CRB alludes to the size of government burns billions $ instead of Redford’s $100,000’s. The more subtle devaluation of assets through deficits and debt go unreported and not debated. The universal acceptance of the absolute need for Jim Flaherty to run monster deficits for 5 years, again not seriously debated.
The fact that Quebec takes in excess of $10 billion a year with no end in sight to finance benefits for Quebecers that the ROC cannot have, not debated. The idea that Ontario can demand $1 billion for ‘Ring of Fire’ infrastructure when I see no comparable gifting to the forest industry in BC is galling.
But is not this situation the essence of deficit spending. Once the discipline of balanced budgeting is ignored/forgotten then every politican of whatever stripe can comfortably bribe citizens with their own credit. Ideally the citizens do fight among one another for whatever benefits can be gained as it usually strengthens the grip on power. As time marches along most who ever remembered a day when fiscal responsibility was paramount become fewer.
Small town cheap – was a phrase justice Gomery used to describe chretien.
redford is the peecee’s problem. She represents their brand. It looks good on ’em – her rubbing their faces in it. Can’t wait for the next election when the peecees get what the federal peecee’s got in 1993.
ok thanks!
I kinda associate that entire sequence of events with Chretien…
It’s going to be hard to wipe that stink off the provincial PC Party. To me, I think it’s still not that much money, compared to what’s been happening with the Health Ministry outsourcing a cool billion, the topping up of provincial workers pension funds of a couple more billion.
But it’s the distain for other people’s money, the cavalier attitude speak volumes for what’s gone on since Ralph left the party.
2x Can’t wait for the next election…
The just announced on QR77 that Jim Prentice is going to seek the PC leadership. I don’t care who is running it’s time to change. 43 years and counting……
Democracy is poorly served in a one party state.
I agree. Prentice is a Red Tory along the lines of the progressive Joe Clarke. If I was an Albertan I would vote for Wildrose, assuming it is only paying lip service to the AGW scam.
She knows she’s finished and is going to suck every benefit out of the system as she leaves. Mr Zero and the Wookie are doing the same.
That’s what those who live on the government dime do, as much and as often as they can. They see it as a natural entitlement that comes with their political celeb popularity. It takes a certain type of personality to be voted into political office and that doesn’t always produce the best leaders or ‘statesmen’
Any politician has to pay lip service to the AGW scam if they want to ‘mine’ votes from the vast majority of uncommitted, apolitical, mostly urban, middle-of-the-road voters. That’s the group who decides the outcome of elections, not the hard core extremists.
Let us see…
Prentice quit federal cabinet where he made some 150k+.
Went to CI Bank of Calgary where the reported cash was some 400k+.
Does anybody think that he is going to take some serious cut in pay out of the goodness of his hart?
Though, must say that he owns quite large church in of land in the southern foothills of Alberta. Rather beautiful part of Canada.
Prentice is very well spoken. Estimating that he is more decent character than the whole lot of progressives in Alberta legislature.
It is now many years ago that there was a kind of public meeting in the Crowsnest Pass.
Prentice was on the offense against green fascist he did all.
…should be CIBank of Commerce…
…should be against green fascist did well.
Also should be chunk instead church
Redford’s probably waiting in Palm Springs for her application for South African citizenship to be reevaluated.
As for Prentice,can the Alberta PC party save their sorry butts sell a corporate entitled lawyer from Ontario to Albertans?
Unfortunately the answer is most likely -Yes.