Ralph

Thankfully, I'm not in the riding where a good friend of mine is running for the PC Party of Alberta.

This will be the first provincial election where I will not vote for Ralph. What's ironic is I attended Ralph's campaign kick off rally and was cheering "Ralph, Ralph, Ralph". Then I saw no platform. They are coasting on being debt free. That's it. They talk about the future, but provide no vision, no substance, no nothing. To call this election "Kleinfeld", an election about nothing, is true as far as the Progressive Conservatives and Ralph Klein go.

Ralph is stale. He's arrogant - the same qualities Albertans complained about Chretien. His comments about AISH, his rude incident at the homeless shelter, gambling instead of attending the federal health accord, lack of debate in the Legistature, crappy auto-insurance reform, broken tax cut promise, ... I'm tired of it. Anyone could have paid off the debt with the oil revenues that have been coming in, so I don't think it was any miracle on Ralph's part.

So I'm voting Alberta Alliance. Why? Because ... 1) I never vote socialist (Liberal or NDP) and 2) the Alliance actually has a nice platform called "Contract with Alberta", that I can agree on.

Highlights:

- Free tuition for post-secondary students with a C average or better
- Eliminate health-care premiums
- Cut income taxes by 28% as promised by Ralph in 2001 but never done
- Fixed election dates
- Eliminate MLA pay raise

Here it is in detail: http://www.albertaalliance.com/contract.pdf

Although I'm not big on recall and referendums, this is what I was looking for. Who knows, maybe in 2008, I'll run for MLA!

Vote early, vote often. Just vote today.