[Yogi]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Yogi Yogi:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

The city of Edmonton is $6M in the hole with Photo Radar, that might disappear on its own.

it actually cost $66 million – a figure 24 times higher than original projections.

How does that happen?

Prudent fiscal management!

[DrCaleb]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Yogi Yogi:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

The city of Edmonton is $6M in the hole with Photo Radar, that might disappear on its own.

it actually cost $66 million – a figure 24 times higher than original projections.

How does that happen?

They budgeted a ticket to cost $20 to process (through a private company), but some costs were $40 a ticket at some point. That figure is also the cost over 12 years.

What they didn't say with that figure was that tickets cost more than $40 each to the recipient, so the revenues were far more than $66 million.

And the province has no say over what Edmonton does to enforce traffic on it's streets.

[Alta_redneck]

The NDP lost their Medicine Hat guy over the weekend for assaulting someone that called bull shit. lol

[bootlegga]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

The NDP lost their Medicine Hat guy over the weekend for assaulting someone that called bull shit. lol

Sounds kinda like Thomas Lukaschuk in 2012...

[Alta_redneck]

Really Rachel, your going to bother with this, gezzzz the guys a 100 years old.

Bring your wife’s pie

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/bring-w ... 11583.html

[2Cdo]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Really Rachel, your going to bother with this, gezzzz the guys a 100 years old.

Bring your wife’s pie

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/bring-w ... 11583.html

Much ado about nothing.

[Canadian_Mind]

So who is everyone voting for anyway? I'm pretty set on my local Wildrose candidate. While I'm okay with tax increases (I actually encourage them) and the Wildrose is entirely against tax increases, it was a very close race between them and the PCs last election, Liberals and NDP have no hope.

The whole strategic voting thing. A Wildrose member in Battle River - Wainwright is one less PC member to form a government with. Even if it ends up being a minority government, the parties will have to compromise and find a favourable solution to our current issues, and one that will reap huge savings and investment in the heritage fund when things pick up again.

[Unsound]

Honestly, whoever looks most likely to best the PC candidate will get my vote. Living in Edmonton it looks like the NDP are really coming on strong so that's likely the way I'll go. An NDP or wildrose minority with a strong opposition from the other party would be my favoured outcome.

[Alta_redneck]

We have a floor crosser, Kerry Towle, she worked hard as a WR and I think she needs to have a chair in the blue section.

[bootlegga]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

So who is everyone voting for anyway? I'm pretty set on my local Wildrose candidate. While I'm okay with tax increases (I actually encourage them) and the Wildrose is entirely against tax increases, it was a very close race between them and the PCs last election, Liberals and NDP have no hope.

The whole strategic voting thing. A Wildrose member in Battle River - Wainwright is one less PC member to form a government with. Even if it ends up being a minority government, the parties will have to compromise and find a favourable solution to our current issues, and one that will reap huge savings and investment in the heritage fund when things pick up again.

Still undecided.

I was thinking of voting for the Liberal candidate (who seems like a decent guy), but after Blakeman's bozo eruption this week (she said the problem with politics is too many men and not enough women), my vote will go elsewhere.

Don't know if I vote NDP as they seem too left for even me.

The only thing I know is that it won't be PC or Wildrose (they don't have anyone in the riding anyways).

[bootlegga]

Unsound Unsound:

Honestly, whoever looks most likely to best the PC candidate will get my vote. Living in Edmonton it looks like the NDP are really coming on strong so that's likely the way I'll go. An NDP or wildrose minority with a strong opposition from the other party would be my favoured outcome.

The only problem with a Wildrose minority would be that they would just work with the PCs and nothing much would change - it'd just be more of the same old, same old just more right wing.

A minority of NDP might interesting (because they would have to work with the PCs or Wildrose) but is next to impossible because they have very little support outside of Edmonton.

[DrCaleb]

I don't know yet, but I'm fairly certain who I won't vote for. The only campaign signs I see are Wildrose, so I don't know who all the candidates are yet or if they've even been chosen.

I like to familiarize myself with the candidates and their views before I decide who gets my vote, but I have found the incumbent to be a useless teat over the past few years, so there is that. The other candidates have a long way to fall for them not to get my vote.

[Unsound]

bootlegga bootlegga:

The only problem with a Wildrose minority would be that they would just work with the PCs and nothing much would change - it'd just be more of the same old, same old just more right wing.

You're probably right, but I can't help but wonder in there isn't enough bad blood between the two parties after the defections, that they might not be able to work together.

Even if they do work together, just breaking the habit of electing the PCs again and again would be a good thing regardless of exactly how it happens.

[DrCaleb]

So . .did anyone watch the debate?

I think Brian Jean was a robot who's voice chip malfunctioned. "We won't raise taxes . . . we won't raise taxes . . . we won't raise taxes". Boring.

Did David Swann even show up?

Prentice actually lowered my opinion of him. Not only the 'math is hard' comment to Ms. Notley, but when he thought the cameras were off at the end instead of shaking hands and patting shoulders, he just stormed off the stage like the big kids had given him a wedgie.

I hate to say, but Rachel Notley looked like the best leader in the pack.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/alb ... picks=true

[Thanos]

One of the better comments out there was that David Swann showed up to the debate with an onion on his belt.

IF I vote, and that's still a massive IF at this stage, I've decided to cause some damage and vote for the Dippers. Not because I'm for them or believe any of their schtick any more than I do from the PC's or WRA. Just as a protest and firm slap to the face of Albertan conservatism. The choice on the right is either between Tory corporatism/good ol' boy-ism/backroom grift & graft or WRA's angry-farmer back-to-the-1950's cut 'n' burn 'n' slash. None of these jokers give a damn about me so if I choose to participate I might as well go full retard and give the Dips a shot. At least their words are prettier, even if they're most likely as full of shit as anyone else out there.