{"id":1129,"date":"2006-10-26T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2006-10-26T00:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T04:51:00","slug":"streetfight-for-the-crown-dave-hancock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"Streetfight for the Crown: Dave Hancock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get to my third profile of the PC leadership candidates, check out the latest from the party’s biggest shit disturber<\/a> (who I profiled yesterday<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Alberta Tory leadership candidate Lyle Oberg called a news conference to allege misconduct on another candidate’s campaign, then backed away from revealing details Wednesday. Lyle Oberg planned to reveal all the details of the alleged misconduct at a news conference Tuesday morning. <\/span><\/p>\n

“The bottom line on this is, I would have loved to bring this out,” he told the gathered reporters in Edmonton. “And I may well bring this out at some time in the future, but I am very concerned about the people involved, and I am protecting the people involved.”<\/p>\n

Oberg wouldn’t reveal what the alleged misconduct is or which candidate is implicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you’re reading this saying to yourself “He called a press conference to announce that he has top secret information but won’t say who or what it’s about<\/em>?”, that’s my interpretation of this story too. Talk about weird.<\/p>\n

So while we eagerly await information on which candidate is the source of Oberg’s super secret information, I present my third profile – Dave Hancock.<\/p>\n

Dave Hancock<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 30 words or less<\/strong>: Hancock is pretty well liked by everyone although he’s never really made a name for himself, good or bad. Closest thing to a Red Tory you’ll find in this race. Think Jim Prentice, except with a name 14 year olds would find funny.<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong> He’s served in several portfolios including Advanced Education and Justice. During this time he seems to have taken credit for every major improvement <\/a>which has occurred to the city of Edmonton (“Dave encouraged Kevin Lowe to trade for Dwayne Rolloson<\/em>…”).<\/p>\n

Hancock on emissions:<\/strong> Dave has a fairly lengthy environmental platform <\/a>with a lot of ideas, although it’s short on specifics. He’s promising to work with industry to set targets and standards and to offer incentives for energy efficiency. There’s also a video on his site <\/a>of Dave (not) answering questions on oilsands development.<\/p>\n

Hancock’s Backers: <\/strong>Dave may have an MLA or two, I honestly don’t know. I’d say these are the key backers:<\/p>\n

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On the Blogs: <\/strong>Rather than getting a sixteen year old staffer to ghost write his blog, the Hancock website features a blog by Dave’s wife<\/a>, Janet. Surprisingly, I didn’t see a recap of Dave’s photo-op with the cheerleaders on it…<\/p>\n

Can He Win: <\/strong>No, not really.<\/p>\n

My Take: <\/strong>Hancock is seen to be the closest thing to a Red Tory you’ll find in this race. He’s well liked by most Liberals I know in Edmonton and seems like a pretty good guy. Given all this, he’s got no chance in hell of winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I get to my third profile of the PC leadership candidates, check out the latest from the party’s biggest shit disturber (who I profiled yesterday): Alberta Tory leadership candidate Lyle Oberg called a news conference to allege misconduct on another candidate’s campaign, then backed away from revealing details Wednesday. Lyle Oberg planned to reveal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}