{"id":136532,"date":"2010-01-04T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T21:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8773"},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T21:48:53","slug":"two-messages-to-alberta-pc-premier-ed-stelmach-and-liberal-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/136532","title":{"rendered":"Two messages to Alberta PC &amp; Premier Ed Stelmach (and Liberal &amp; NDP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/calgary\/story\/2010\/01\/04\/calgary-mlas-conservative-wildrose-alliance.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/calgary\/story\/2010\/01\/04\/calgary-mlas-conservative-wildrose-alliance.html\" >CBC<\/a> today, two legislature members from Alberta&#8217;s governing Progressive Conservatives have defected to the Wildrose Alliance party. Take a look of the following well-spoken video messages by the two MLA who crossed the floor today.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/video\/news\/player.html?clipid=1376721988\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/video\/news\/player.html?clipid=1376721988\" >Airdrie-Chestermere MLA Rob Anderson explains why he&#8217;s joining the Wildrose Alliance (4:59)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/video\/news\/player.html?clipid=1376721987\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/video\/news\/player.html?clipid=1376721987\" >Calgary-Fish Creek MLA Heather Forsyth explains why she&#8217;s crossing the floor to the Wildrose Alliance (4:43)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a report from <a title=\"http:\/\/calgary.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20100104\/CGY_alta_floorcrossing2_100104\/20100104\/?hub=CalgaryHome\" href=\"http:\/\/calgary.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20100104\/CGY_alta_floorcrossing2_100104\/20100104\/?hub=CalgaryHome\" >CTV Calgary &#8220;Two Alberta Tories defect to Wildrose Alliance&#8221; (with video)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Frankly, Paul, Danielle and I don&#8217;t quite see eye-to-eye in the last Calgary-Glenmore campaign (especially the techniques used on election day).\u00a0Setting that issue and Wildrose policies aside, I believe the two addition Wildrose MLAs will help the party to gain its needed momentum in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run, I hope these two deflections will benefit Albertans and inject some needed democracy and representation into the Alberta&#8217;s provincial legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta&#8217;s other opposition parties (Alberta Liberal and NDP) may wish to think this is just a lost for the Alberta PC. I honestly hope they are not that naive as the consequences of today&#8217;s defections when combining with some sensible and popular policies means their legislative seats may not be as secure as they wish.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, amongst the three neighbours in my aread, where we are very helpful to each others, there are supporters of Wildrose, PC, and Liberal parties. I truly believe the diversity is what make us strong. Political differences should not detract from our dedications, hopes, and dreams for a better and stronger Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Law, people, politics  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8773\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=8773&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by CBC today, two legislature members from Alberta&#8217;s governing Progressive Conservatives have defected to the Wildrose Alliance party. Take a look of the following well-spoken video messages by the two MLA who crossed the floor today. Airdrie-Chestermere MLA Rob Anderson explains why he&#8217;s joining the Wildrose Alliance (4:59) Calgary-Fish Creek MLA Heather Forsyth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}