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healthnut7

(249 posts)
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 05:13 PM Nov 2019

This sounds like Trump!

This is what kind of crap is now happening in Alberta.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-firing-of-alberta-elections-watchdog-borders-on-an-abuse-of-power-by/

Kenney by the way is being investigated by this man for what illegal stuff he and his band of outlaws were doing just so Kenney could be the leader.

It is scary since what other corrupt stuff is coming. I've never seen anything like this!!

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This sounds like Trump! (Original Post) healthnut7 Nov 2019 OP
This is pretty bad, indeed. Mike 03 Nov 2019 #1

Mike 03

(16,864 posts)
1. This is pretty bad, indeed.
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 05:22 PM
Nov 2019

from the article:

The firing of Alberta’s election commissioner by the United Conservative Party government of Jason Kenney is such an obviously poor decision that, in normal times, it would be reversed by the end of the week.

But these are not normal times. Mr. Kenney, armed with a powerful double majority of both the popular vote and the seats in the Alberta Legislature, seems to be indifferent to the fact he shouldn’t use his newfound power for personal political gain.

The termination of the contract of Alberta’s election commissioner, Lorne Gibson, is the latest manifestation of this high-handed attitude, and it is by far the most egregious.

As elections commissioner, Mr. Gibson has doggedly investigated financial irregularities that occurred during the UCP leadership race in 2017 that Mr. Kenney won. Mr. Gibson has handed down more than $207,000 in fines to date, much of it in connection with the so-called “kamikaze candidate.”

That case involves allegations that another UCP leadership candidate, Jeff Callaway, ran as a straw man designed to attack Mr. Kenney’s main opponent for the leadership, Brian Jean of the defunct Wildrose Party, and then drop out at the last minute and endorse Mr. Kenney.

The two men have denied working together, and Mr. Kenney has dismissed the allegations as “conspiracy theories.” But leaked e-mails showed that a member of his campaign provided Mr. Callaway’s team with material that included speaking notes, messaging plans and a proposed timeline for Mr. Callaway to drop out of the race.


Another rogue politician borrowing from the dictator playbook it seems.
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