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Originally Posted by TitleRequired
Do we need an ideological purity test to see who can run for office?
Why don't we leave it to the kind voters in Hampton?
Say what you will, she knows how to play the game, unlike Crossman's handpicked successor. Higgs didn't pick her, she picked herself through endless self promotion.
She:
1. Supported the premier, consistently,
2. Sold memberships should the premier had been exposed to a leadership review,
3. Mobilized a block of voters that show up at the polls 100% of the time.
Do you have issues with the player or the game?
That said, she wouldn't get into cabinet. Why? She marches to her own drum.
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Where in my post did I say she shouldn't be allowed to run? If she's followed all of the normal rules of being a candidate then of course she should be allowed to run and the voters can have their say.
Its really challenging to have an actual discussion with you on this forum. I mean this in the most respectful way but you have a pattern where you don't address the actual substance of anyone's posts and just strawman your own argument.
The point in my post was to respond to the idea you presented that the legislature is designed to remove power from "one extremist". For the past several years the party under Higgs has more resembled the views of Faytene than it has of Jeff Carr or Daniel Allain as evidenced by the amount of MLA's leaving and the new toxic comms strategy.
There is a dramatic effort to reshape the party. If I was a conservative I would be concerned about the comments of the departing MLA's about the state of the leadership right now. The premiers circle is shrinking, and with that those offering differing opinions aren't being listened to anymore and are leaving and being replaced by loyalists.
Higgs just spent Canada Day with
Pastor Phil Hutchings. When the party leader is surrounding himself with people like that someone like Faytene isn't an outlier, she's what the party has become. If that's the party you want in government then that's your prerogative. I understand this forum skews conservative and I'm simply offering a different perspective which hopefully adds to the quality of discussion here.
I may end up wrong, but I still predict she ends up with a cabinet spot. Her loyalty will be rewarded.
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