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First Lady
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 Posted: 12/ 30/ 07 9:26 pm Post subject: Potential Alberta Alliance and Wildrose merger. |
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The following email has gone out to Alberta Alliance members; in conjunction with a similiar email going out to Wildrose Party members.
Snail mail letters were sent this past Friday.
| Quote: | December 30, 2007
Notice of Special General Meeting (SGM) of the Alberta Alliance Party.
Dear Alliance Party Members,
During the month of December the Provincial Council has been in negotiations with the Wildrose Party of Alberta to unite the parties. After several weeks of negotiations the Alberta Alliance Provincial Council has approved the following terms to a merger, subject to the approval of our members at a Special General meeting, to be held in Calgary, AB on Saturday January 19th 2008. We invite you to attend this meeting and ask that you pre-register by January 12th to insure we have adequate space for each attendee. You must be a current Alberta Alliance member.
The decision to merge the parties is entirely up to you. The following six resolutions will be submitted for consideration by all Alberta Alliance members in attendance.
Be it resolved that;
1) the Alliance changes the name of the “Alberta Alliance Party” to the “Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta”.
2) the Wildrose Alliance adopt new Bylaws substantially the same as those of the “Wildrose Party of Alberta”.
3) the Wildrose Alliance immediately conduct election of officers.
4) the Wildrose Alliance call and provide notice of an Annual General Meeting to be held by May 1, 2008.
5) the Wildrose Alliance accept all the assets and liabilities of the “Wildrose Party of Alberta”; following the acceptance of the merger by members of both the Alberta Alliance and the Wildrose Party at their respective Special General Meetings.
6) the Wildrose Alliance allow all members of the “Wildrose Party of Alberta” to exchange their membership in the Wildrose Party for a membership in the “Wildrose Alliance” for the unexpired term.
Both parties will have conducted due diligence examinations of the other, prior to the January 19th 2008 SGM.
If the merger is approved, the Wildrose Alliance will reimburse candidates for expenses already incurred for election material that bears the Alberta Alliance name to facilitate the transition to new name. (Candidates will have to provide documentation of the original expenses to be reimbursed.)
If the union is approved, a meeting of the new Provincial Executive shall follow the SGM, to establish by-laws for candidate selection and constituency formation.
Members of the “Wildrose Party of Alberta” have been invited to attend. If members of the Alberta Alliance approve the above resolutions, Wildrose Party members will then be recognized as voting participants at the SGM.
I hope you can join us for this important meeting.
Sincerely,
Jane Morgan, CFO
On behalf of the President
& the AAP Provincial Council.
Saturday January 19, 2008
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Westin Hotel
320 - 4th Ave SW, Calgary, AB
For Information contact Jane Morgan: 1-888-262-1888 or e-mail: info@albertaalliance.ca |
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 hunterofvoters
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| Posted: 12/ 30/ 07 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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So who will be the leader?
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First Lady
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| Posted: 12/ 30/ 07 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| hunterofvoters wrote: | | So who will be the leader? |
With an election imminent, Paul would stay on as leader.
I have change the title of thread.... as Knave said it was too "flowery"....  |
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| Rohan01 Joined: 14 May 2007 Total posts: 2709 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Age: 47 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 12/ 30/ 07 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Very interesting. As an aside, even though there are considerable differences between all the members of the alliance that Garry Kasparov heads, there is agreement on the important things.
I consider this to be another sign of the maturing of the Alberta Political Arena. |
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Albertaforever
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| Posted: 12/ 31/ 07 2:05 am Post subject: |
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| This is exciting we could end up with an electable rightwing party again. |
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Lionhead
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| Posted: 12/ 31/ 07 2:14 am Post subject: |
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Too much common ground between the two parties for vote-splitting on the right?
I had a feeling this would eventually happen out there, I just didn't think it would be this soon. |
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| TomFoolery Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Total posts: 5870
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| Posted: 12/ 31/ 07 2:21 am Post subject: |
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ITs actually a little too late, IMO. IF we get a spring election - there will still be lots of issues for the party to work through.
In any event. Glad they did it. Simplifies my voting choice - which probably would have gone to Wild Rose.
I agree with many of their principles but the "elimination of health care premiums" policy does put me off. "Invisible" and "free" reeks of socialism - although they are not a socialist party....its a very strange message they are sending with a policy like that....perhaps its to soften up liberals.
If there are good candidates in rural areas - it should make a good showing. |
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| chlorine Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Total posts: 1493 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: 12/ 31/ 07 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| Hope it works out for you. I vote Green but choice is always a good thing. |
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C.Morgan
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| Posted: 12/ 31/ 07 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| TomFoolery wrote: | ITs actually a little too late, IMO. IF we get a spring election - there will still be lots of issues for the party to work through.
In any event. Glad they did it. Simplifies my voting choice - which probably would have gone to Wild Rose.
I agree with many of their principles but the "elimination of health care premiums" policy does put me off. "Invisible" and "free" reeks of socialism - although they are not a socialist party....its a very strange message they are sending with a policy like that....perhaps its to soften up liberals.
If there are good candidates in rural areas - it should make a good showing. |
The healthcare "premium" is nothing more than a tax. It goes into general revenues and is very expensive to administrate and collect.
There is nothing socialist about tax cuts.
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First Lady
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| Posted: 01/ 01/ 08 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Tory foes poised for party merger
Alberta Alliance, Wildrose forging right-wing union
Tony Seskus
Calgary Herald
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Hoping to put a dent in conservative support for Premier Ed Stelmach's Tory government, two right-wing political parties -- the Alberta Alliance and Wildrose Party -- are working on merger plans.
Discussions have been going on for some time but began in earnest in early December. Alliance members are set to vote on the marriage proposal at a special general meeting in Calgary this month.
Officials with both parties are optimistic Alliance party faithful will give their blessing, smoothing the way for the creation of the Wildrose Alliance Party of Alberta.
Alliance Leader Paul Hinman, the party's sole MLA, says it's important conservatives don't fracture their vote in the next general election, which is expected as soon as spring.
"We need to be together -- marching together, speaking together -- and we'll do better," Hinman said in an interview Monday. "I'm quite excited."
Rob James, president of the Wildrose Party of Alberta, agrees the parties are "better together than apart."
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http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=97578204-dd33-4e5b-8c1f-95933d675e21 |
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| Smaug Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Total posts: 7396 Location: Edmonton Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: 01/ 01/ 08 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Great.
Now recruit a new leader and a dozen sitting blue tory MLAs and you have a shot at forming the next provincial government. |
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nickjbor
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| Posted: 01/ 02/ 08 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Sounds to me like this could have been the plan all along. The Alliance, which has lost its 'newness', sends out it's agents to create a new party. That new party gains energetic people new to the political process, which are then merged with the new more established Alliance, to give the new party the best of both worlds.
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C.Morgan
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| Posted: 01/ 02/ 08 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| nickjbor wrote: | | Sounds to me like this could have been the plan all along. The Alliance, which has lost its 'newness', sends out it's agents to create a new party. That new party gains energetic people new to the political process, which are then merged with the new more established Alliance, to give the new party the best of both worlds. |
It's not quite so cloak and dagger as that. While we certainly are maturing as a party and our organization in general is improving, we do not plan quite so long-term in that conspiracy style.
The bottom line is that while the individuals with the Wildrose initially thought that a brand new party is the way to go, they soon discovered that it simply has ended up with all of us dividing some already limitted resources and support. Progress in both parties was becoming stunted and voter confusion was beginning to happen. The WRP held founding meetings and pretty much discovered that the plans and goals were essentially parallel to the Alberta Alliance and the redundancy was more visibly displayed.
Much of the reason for the Wildrose effort was based on personal differences by some individuals as opposed to any policy or philisophical differences. Egos have been put aside as an election is pending and it is clear that a united approach is the only route that will hold Stelmach to account.
The goal is to make a better Alberta. What the name of the party is or who is in what position at the upper levels are really secondary things in light of the aforementioned goal.
We have made a great stride. There is still a massive amount of work to be done in very limited time however.
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| Smaug Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Total posts: 7396 Location: Edmonton Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: 01/ 02/ 08 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Wildrose Alliance does have a ring to it.
It will be very interesting to see if they can better the votes of the Alliance in the last election. If they do, and they start pulling some Calgary votes, Stelmach's day's will be numbered.
Can't say that would hurt my feeling any  |
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| CanadianBacon Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Total posts: 289 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 01/ 02/ 08 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Smaug wrote: | Wildrose Alliance does have a ring to it.
It will be very interesting to see if they can better the votes of the Alliance in the last election. If they do, and they start pulling some Calgary votes, Stelmach's day's will be numbered.
Can't say that would hurt my feeling any |
Stelmach's days are numbered even without the vote splitting new party. The province is trending left not right thanks primarily to Eddie's actual and perceived incompetence. His dumb moves make everyone on the right look bad.
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