A growing brigade of federal Tory MPs, including high-profile Jason Kenney, will storm back to Alberta this week to throw their political and organizational muscle behind Ted Morton in his fight for the Progressive Conservative reins and premiership.
Right there, Ted Morton is on my list of "Not this side of creation" for leadership of the Alberta PCs. I don't like what the Federal CPoC represents, I'll be damned if that's what I want to see in the provincial legislature as well.
"It's a Reform party takeover in provincial politics," said David Taras, political analyst at the University of Calgary, adding the city could prove to be a battleground of epic proportions between these "two very different" visions for the party.
"This is the heavy ammunition coming in. Morton is bringing in the cannons and they're going to fire away in Calgary," Taras said. "Calgary is going to be at war with itself."
Just like the Reform/Alliance party took over the Federal PCs (with Mackay's collusion), we see the same thing going on here.
These are not people who believe in representative democracy - they believe in one thing - an ideology. If you don't follow their particular ideology, then expect to be thrown under the bus by them.
[Update:]
This article explains (fundamentally) that unless there's an exodus of votes from either Dinning or Morton, Stelmach doesn't stand much chance of actually winning.
To win, a candidate needs to receive 50 per cent plus one of the No. 1 rankings. If no candidate reaches that, the bottom candidate drops off. His votes will then be transferred in order of preference to the remaining two and a winner declared.
He's likely to be the "third place" name, which means that his backers are the "king makers" - I can only hope that they are smart enough not to put Ted Morton down as their "second choice" candidate.
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