GG

"I look at every blunder I’ve made as being a learning experience, and I’ve made a lot of blunders, which means I’ve learned an awful lot.” 🤷​ 🤦​

And now, Alberta's Danielle Smith is asking mainstream voters to look past a TORRENT of disconcerting, or anti-science, or ahistorical pronouncements from her past.

#alberta #abpoli #ABElection2023 #yeg #yyc #VoteMay29 #UCP #NDP
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-danielle-smith-alberta-ucp/

Alberta’s Danielle Smith is hoping for a new chapter after May 29 election

The UCP Leader’s career has gone across party lines, and in and out of controversy. On May 29, voters decide where the story goes

The Globe and Mail
May 20, 2023 at 8:01pmWeb
Show threadCanadian DudeMay 20, 2023
@gemelliz #itsmyfirstday
Show threadDon McKay 🍁May 20, 2023
@gemelliz "They say you learn from your mistakes, and no one makes more mistakes than me." ... is a hell of a pitch during a job interview.
Show threadGGMay 20, 2023

@vallik
right?! and you are too kind;
Smith herself used the word 'blunder'

"Use 'mistake' for general errors or missteps.
Use 'blunder' for more serious mistakes that have significant consequences." 😗​

Show threadAlison CreeksideMay 21, 2023
@gemelliz @vallik Danielle Smith is choosing her own adventure 🤣​
Good article.
Reading of Smith's "esteem" for Florida governor Ron DeSantis, I'm reminded David Parker said of him:
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦May 21, 2023
@gemelliz ...This story about her is full of deceitful LIES...she was brought in the back door by Kenny and was NOT voted in as Premier or HAS BEEN voted IN AS PREMIER...WAIT TILL MAY29...SHE WAS VOTED TO GET A SEAT AS UPC ...NOTHING but a bad decision to replace another bad decision ...
Show threadGGMay 21, 2023

@Lstn2urmama 💯​
Globe did a similar 'marshmallow' profile on Doug Ford just before last year's election. "How bad could he be?"
"Ontarians don’t fear Doug Ford the way they did in 2018. While Ford has certainly had a tumultuous tenure as Premier, the visceral fear that preceded his first election is notably absent this time around". 🤦​

= 'Quiet' voter suppression
Media assures voters that govt/ leader is "not that bad" .
Voters stay home.
Conservatives generally win with a low voter turnout

Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦May 21, 2023
@gemelliz notice how he has turned into his brother...just undermines the public and lines his own pockets with kickbacks...😡
Show threadGGMay 21, 2023
@Lstn2urmama He hasn't turned in to his brother, he's always been like this. Doug was pulling the levers at City Hall for years.
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦May 21, 2023
@gemelliz only going by what have seen , you probably know more because you are there and others on outside...
Show threadGGMay 21, 2023

“The Ford family see themselves as the Canadian Kennedys and believe they are a powerful & important family political dynasty, even if outsiders view their 'goings-on' a far cry from Camelot."

#dofo #topoli #onpoli #toronto
Interesting read here:
https://thetyee.ca/Books/2014/02/03/RobFordCrazyTown/

Seven Crazy Rob Ford Tales from 'Crazy Town' | The Tyee

New book reveals there's so much more to know about Toronto's mayor.

The Tyee
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦May 22, 2023
@gemelliz sorry but it that is an insult to the Kennedys..😿🥴😅
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦May 21, 2023
@gemelliz ...Here many do not understand or are so blindsided by life that they choose priorities to survive...
That is why the worse evil gets there...
Show threadRickOnTheLakeMay 21, 2023
@gemelliz But apparently she never learned how to stop blundering. Strange she would boast about that.