{"id":1618,"date":"2008-01-09T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2008-01-09T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T04:09:00","slug":"unite-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Unite the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the midst of masterofhisdomain<\/span>-gate<\/a>, I seem to have missed this bit of news <\/a>out of Alberta:<\/p>\n

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Alberta’s political right may be in for a realignment in 2008, with the Alberta Alliance and Wildrose<\/span> Party preparing for a merger before the next election.<\/p>\n

If the union is accepted by members of both parties, the new Wildrose<\/span> Alliance Party of Alberta will run a full slate of candidates in the next election.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before people get too excited about this merger, this is only slightly<\/em> more significant than the eventual Marxist-Leninist<\/span>\/Communist Party merger that we all know is inevitable<\/span> at the federal level. So, in the scheme of things, this is probably slightly less worrisome for Ed Stelmach<\/span> than losing his domain name to some shit disturbing blogger and slightly more worrisome than getting a mustard stain out of his favourite suit.<\/p>\n

For those outside of Alberta (which includes, I guess, me), the Alliance <\/a>came into being in 2002, picking up 1 seat and 9% of the vote in the 2004 election. Given recent polls and by-election results<\/a>, I tend to think 9% would be their best case scenario in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n

As for the Wild Rose Party<\/a>, their long and storied history will come to a close if this merger is ratified. Let’s give them a moment of silence before moving on.<\/p>\n

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Should Wild Rose party members decide to kill their weeks <\/em>of history in a bid to blow past the SoCreds<\/span> on the relevancy scale, the new party would be cleverly named the Wild Rose Alliance (or, “Wild Alliance<\/em>” for short) and would be led by Alberta Alliance leader Paul Hinman<\/span>. This shouldn’t be a major surprise given that the Wild Rose Party never selected a leader<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the midst of masterofhisdomain-gate, I seem to have missed this bit of news out of Alberta: Alberta’s political right may be in for a realignment in 2008, with the Alberta Alliance and Wildrose Party preparing for a merger before the next election. If the union is accepted by members of both parties, the new […]<\/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-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}