He hadn’t been contemplating seeking the Alberta NDP leadership but added “I have been listening to a lot of pitches from party members and other Albertans.”
Interesting, and not entirely surprising. I don’t think he should, though.
Nenshi needs to skip Alberta politics entirely, and get into the federal party. The Alberta NDP needs a straight, white male leading it in order to unseat the UCP. There are too many “moderate” (HAH!) voters in this province who don’t like the idea of a brown man in power, let alone one who is embedded in the LGBTQ2+ community.
I’m thinking that Joe Ceci may be the best person for the job, although he’s not who I would personally like to see leading the party.
It’s not even so much that we need a male straight person to knock off the UCP, as it is we don’t need smug condescending people who talk’s down to the population. Nenshi was unbearable his last term, and that’s coming from someone who voted for him. If a brown LGBTQ2+ is the best person to govern, and a strong leader, they should step forward. Unless their last name is Nenshi.
Nenshi’s last term showed voters his arrogance, and also showed his true character. He is the most condescending piece of crap when it comes to not getting his way on something. And he got his way on many things, such as handing the billionaires their precious arena 2.5 seconds after running on a mandate of doing the opposite, and we just barely dodged that Olympic bullet he was trying to shoot into our heads.
If this guy runs for the NDP, and wins, the UCP will have a heydey with it. It’ll pretty much guarantee that the next decade + will be a slam dunk UCP cakewalk.
He needs to fuck off back to academia, and stay out of this mess. He has nothing to offer here. The NDP actually needs to get their shit together, or they need to splinter into a new party that runs on a hard centre mandate, that actually aligns with the vast majority of Alberta’s population, and not a religious fanatic minority. I’m personally pushing pretty hard for a rebranding, it’s time to ditch the NDP association and to get real with what needs to be done here. Ain’t saying it isn’t a load of nonsense, it is, but it’s what needs to be done to put an end to this UCP nightmare. Nenshi ain’t going to do that for us. Fuck he lost to Jyoti Gondeck for crying outloud, who is solidly in the running for the world’s most useless politician.
Hahah like it isn’t already. We have had cons in power except when they screwed up so bad people voted the NDP in for one term. One term and they wrecked the province not the 40 plus years the cons have been in power. I think the ucp have it solid no matter what happens.
I disagree, the cons have been in power for like 40 years or something like that, yet no Albertan conservative leader in modern history has lasted a full term. Speaks to the level of disfunction both within and outside the party, imo. This province has Stockholm syndrome though, and thinks that anything but blue is the devil. I vote blue because my pappy told me too, and all that other nonsense.
I struggle to think how the NDP fucked up the province in one term, if anything they were handed a shit sandwich economically, as the oil prices bombed just before they got in. Navigated the storm as good as anyone could be reasonably expected to. If the UCP was in power then, they’d just be smoke and mirroring you about how bad it was and how they did the best they could. I’m saying this neutrally too, like if the cons weren’t so fucking gross in this province, I actually tend to be smack in the centre on many items. But man Alberta has had some conservative characters…