Sunday, March 02, 2008

Craig Chandler Campaign Literature

Chandler's campaign literature is an amazing collection of logical contradictions.

Of course, the contradictions stem from Chandler's blithe assumption that the only "kind" of voter that lives in Calgary Egmont is a "conservative voter".

Consider the following:

If you hire me as your MLA, I understand that I report to you and that your views will be represented


Followed a paragraph or so later:

As your MLA, my intention is to vote with the PCs when they act like conservatives, and when they act like Liberals, I will remind them of their roots


So...just how does this man think he's going to represent the moderate voters, which are fiscally moderate and socially quite liberal? Or perhaps he has forgotten that many in this province today are old enough to remember Peter Lougheed's government - and that represents the "roots" of the PC party far more than the absolutist conservatism of the federal Reform Party. I suspect that many of the points on his policy page are "code phrases" that only bear meaning for people that subscribe to Stephen Harper's dishonest social conservatism backed and defined by Charles McVety and his allies - meaning that there are quite likely a lot of issues which are not "open for consultation", unless I miss my guess. (Or conveniently, all he'll hear are opinions that match his own - not unlike )

Of course, he also likes to claim that he is the "trigger" of a "great exodus" from the Alberta PC party. If there's an exodus of any sort happening, it's likely got more to do with a lot of people turning away from the party after starting to realize that the leadership selection process was not what it was represented to be. I'm sure that for a few, Chandler's nomination was the "straw that broke the camel's back", but Chandler just isn't that significant a figure outside of Egmont - and only there because he's chosen to try and be a candidate there.

Last, and perhaps most telling is the bottom of the page - which contains not a picture of the Candidate, or any kind of slogans, but instead appears to have been sold off to supporters as paid advertising space. (One of the ads belongs to one Vicki Engel, who I suspected was a little to cozy with Chandler to be anything other than a puppet candidate. While some might applaud Chandler's "innovation" in selling advertising space on his campaign advertising, it also sends a rather worrisome message - namely that he is for sale to the highest bidder.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

well, well, now that Craiggie Boy couldn't even come close to matching the party he calls the Lieberals, I expect that he will soon be packing his carpetbag and hitching a ride back to the East, to join the rest of those Eastern creeps and bums.

Anonymous said...

No, he will just pick another party to align himself with and keep on running and snivelling until he finally gets his way.

That's what McIver did to get into civic council. He lost to Sue Higgins (no surprise), he lost in a byelection, and then he got clever - played dirty and finally won...

I doubt this is the last we will see of 'Marketing Marvel Craig' with his lemon yellow unreadable signs and the poorest excuse for election materials that I have ever seen in my life.

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