Make Redford Pay
Participants attend Bilderberg in a privateand not an official capacity
Participants attend Bilderberg in a privateand not an official capacity
In the previous entries in this series, I have discussed how the Wildrose Party neglected Edmonton to the detriment of winning northern Alberta seats and how the issue of conscience rights and statements made by one candidate in particular were the deciding factors in the Wildrose loss on election day.
In this entry it is time to examine a few elements of the party’s platform and the how the bozo affect came into play.
In part one of this series I looked at the effect the media had on Edmonton’s skewed view of the relationship between a Wildrose government and the municipality. Arguably, that may have had more of a negative affect on the Wildrose Party than did the issues about to be raised.
So what affect did the Wildrose Party’s statements on conscience rights and a candidate’s personal religious beliefs have on the outcome of the election? As one failed candidate stated:
I fell in to a burning lake of fire #wrp #abvote
— Christopher Bataluk (@ChrisBataluk) April 24, 2012
Monday morning, April 23, 2012, I woke up excited and ready to face Alberta Election 2012.
Since Monday night I have been racking my brain, trying to get a handle on just what went wrong, at the last minute, and cast the Wildrose Party into official opposition status and not into power as the next Government of Alberta? I have come to the conclusion that while so much went wrong, campaign wise, the outcome was exactly what most of us had expected as close to the election as 2 weeks before the writ was dropped on March 28th, 2012. While speaking with party insiders, the idea of Wildrose receiving between 15 and 25 seats was pretty much the consensus on the outcome. Therefore winning 17 seats was not unexpected, except…..