I’ll keep no secrets here and will not bother minding my tongue nor opinion…because the NDP as a Provincial Party was an absolute disaster to the province as much as Naheed Nenshi was a disaster to the City of Calgary.
Which is no where near what the Federal NDP has done to Canada.
While I’d hoped to drill into Jag Singh and his statement yesterday…I got tied up with a couple of other things and another HeartBeat that will be out tomorrow…
So, picked simplicity and decided to just dive into Nensh!
Had a phone call today, giving me some of the inside scoop on how this whole, Nenshi as NDP Leadership campaign was going and as it turns out…not so well for his purpleness.
Sure…he’s still got some support in Calgary by the socialists and those won over by the Never Smith NDP fear and smear campaigns…but this is the extent of it.
Consider the highest voting population for the NDP isn’t in Calgary…it just so happens to be where his opponents live and have influence.
For one - Former Health Minister Sarah Hoffman, has actually won elections as an Alberta MLA - in Redmonton. How?
I have no idea.
She is one of the most unlikeable people in the province as far as I am concerned - referring to people who don’t agree with her or her policies as “Sewer Rats”…&
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Not to mention the absolute insult that it is, to anybody who cares about their health, to have her as a “Health Minister”.
Yet, she still won in a landslide victory in the last provincial election.
The second contender in running against Nensh…this clown:
Why this asshole would run for a position that is worth less than half of his current wage is quite perplexing, if you’d believed that there were no additional Perks from being Party Leader or Premier of the Province - if it ever escalated to that.
Gil McGowan is in a unique position in that he is the President of the Alberta Federation of Labour - Unions…meaning, all of that sweet cash that buys our elections comes from him, meaning that because he wants to transition, he’s gunna stack the deck, keep the funding for himself and give ZERO Dollars to Nenshi!
Now, the image from above, was from a counter protest that Gil organized during COVID and had an absolutely abysmal showing of Union Members that he demanded to show up and support him - less than 20 in attendance.
Even his own unions hate him…which is an absolute AMAZING reason for them to show up and vote for him to get rid of his sorry ass and replace them with somebody who has a modicum of self awareness and isn’t a complete douchebag!
So…Gil and that tubby bitch, Sarah…
They’re gunna be splitting the vote of Redmonton…where as Nensh, has support from Calgary dippers, right?
Maybe…
You see…in Calgary, he’d still have to win an election meaning that he’d have to run in an NDP Safe Zone in Calgary of which more turned in the last provincial election…but aren’t exactly Sinches.
No guarantees.
Sources reveal that he’d either be running to take seat away from Irfan Sabir or:
Joe Cici - who looks like he should be an extra in the Sopranos or gangster movies, starring beside Joe Pesci, imagine that. If you’d ever heard this man speak, you’d take an instant disliking to him…again, another one of the least likeable people in Alberta.
But he’s in a LOCKED position also winning back his seat in 2023 with a landslide victory - seriously, who are these fucking people that vote for this guy?
Now…neither Sabir nor Cici probably want to walk the plank for Nensh…but as the leader of a federal party, one of them is going to have boot laid to ass and that makes it pucker time for them.
What would they do if they had to go out and find actual jobs?
They have locks on their seats…and have won in their districts multiples of times…they know their audience and will have to make a decision on who’d they openly support. Somebody in Redmonton, so that they keep their jobs…or the Purple King, Nenshi.
This is, in addition to the slap in the face that the entire ANDP takes by needing a new body coming in to save the disastrous party, where Hoffman has already remarked that she doesn’t believe that the party needs an “outsider”.
So…where does this actually leave Naheed?
Running on his record of quietly dipping out of the public eye as worst mayor of Calgary, only seconded by Gondek?
Having skyrocketed property taxes inside of his rein?
Where businesses literally protested City Hall with the hikes…
Or where Nenshi had to borrow money from the city to pay off his defamation lawsuit against Cal Wenzel?
Maybe on his platform on Safe injection sites?
Which ended up costing the province additional funds to get the crime under control…
Where he openly voted to “Defund the Police”, by $20 Million Clams?
I don’t know…
While I had thought he’d lock this up tight…given the absolutely terrible people still left in the NDP, them needing somebody to come in and remake the party that has some political moxie and savvy…
It ain’t looking good according to how this is currently playing out and from the inside scoop.
Why do the NDP have a "Health Minister" who looks like a beached whale? Can we get someone who isn't obese at least LOL.
Seems to me- and I say this a long suffering BC resident living under commie rule- that it's time for the good people of Alberta ( that's you, UCP voters) to purchase NDP memberships en masse in order to vote as a block for the candidate most likely to lose to Danielle. And boy, does it sounds like you have a lot of nutbars to choose from...