Controversial Conservative Candidate in Calgary

[CDL.TO]

Well, he did say that true Albertans vote Conservative.

 

[King of Kensington]

Of course Stelmach isn't exactly popular among the oil executives these days...

 

[CDL.TO]

From James Bow:

"Rejected Tory candidate Craig Chandler says he plans to sue the Alberta Progressive Conservatives for the $127,000 he claims he spent on his campaign to secure the party’s nomination in Calgary-Egmont."

Now, I normally wouldn’t comment on this story. I try not to go in for Schadenfreude. But I have to step in and say: excuse me? You spent how much?!

I’m not an Albertan, so maybe I’m missing something, but I believe the maximum amount of money that can be spent by a party in campaigning in a federal election is $18,300,000, or roughly $60,000 per seat. Craig Chandler wasn’t campaigning to win a federal election. He wasn’t even campaigning to win a provincial election. He was campaigning to get nominated as a party’s candidate for a seat in the next provincial election.

You spent how much?! Who was your competition? God? How good were they that you had to spend so much in order to bury them?

Weird.

 

[Hydrogen]

Wow, they really do everything big in Tex - uh - Alberta.

$127,000 for a nomination. That's a lot of bribe money.