Sunday, March 21, 2010

Linda Duncan, cry me a river.

"Duncan says she's not sure the people of Edmonton-Strathcona will be happy with Calgary dollars flowing north to try to influence their votes, she said.

"I'm not sure they'll look kindly on that," she said. (In the 2008 campaign, Duncan received about $3,700 from NDP supporters outside her riding, raised about $83,000 in her riding and spent about $64,000 on her campaign.)"

But they will take kindly to this, right?


NDP National HQ raising money "to go and interfere" in Edmonton Strathcona.


Also from the Journal story: "Duncan said Hastman was on hand with Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose to hand out $14.8 million to the University of Alberta, also in Duncan's riding." While she was "was excluded from these events and not informed about when the cheques were going to be handed out."

Funny thing that. If you are so popular and are doing such great things for the riding, why didn't the U of A (or the other stakeholders) bother to invite you to these PUBLIC events?


Cry me a river Linda.


BTW I if knew about the U of A presentation as did hundreds of other people, why didn't Duncan? Nothing was secret about any of them.


Related: How Duncan supports her riding. Ms. Duncan voted for an amendment that would eliminate tax incentives for the oil and gas industry to provide funding for a bailout of the forestry industry in Quebec.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Journal is a week behind the Sun with this story. Duncan's PR people must have lost the Journals email address.

CanadianSense said...

It is strange how the NDP keep trying to win support in Quebec but have been the last choice for voters in Federal Parties.

The NDP made a mistake in 08 backing the coalition.

They made a mistake in not supporting the budget in 2009, 2010.

The one time "rescue" of the CPC agenda or avoid an election should have been used to reset their priorities.

Unfortunately the NDP will keep playing games instead of fixing the left through responsible opposition.

Ardvark said...

The next election is Layton's last shot. He would be wise to tread carefully so not to trigger what will be his swan song.

You know I really have nothing against Jack Layton and I wish him the best in his future job as a Kanye West impersonator.

Patrick Ross said...

Duncan's clearly just playing to her base, confident that no one else will take notice of that particular motion.

She gambled wrong.

What really amused me as that they would vote against a National Securities Regulator. Considering how this recession came about, that seems like the kind of thing that is necessary.

Anonymous said...

Just another drive by shooting of conservatives by our good friends at canwest btw.

What is this bitches problem.. read this:

"I'm not sure they'll look kindly on that," she said. (In the 2008 campaign, Duncan received about $3,700 from NDP supporters outside her riding, raised about $83,000 in her riding and spent about $64,000 on her campaign.)"

She took $3,700 from out of the riding, how is she different? She raised the maximum too so not like she didn't have resources to work with. How does a leftist raise $83,000 in Alberta for an election campaign? Was it every union in the province funding her?

Hypocrite.

(real conservative)