Were you here for the provincial election?

I was poking around Daveberta's list of federal election candidates in Alberta, and I immediately scrolled down to Edmonton-Strathcona. I was eager to see who, this time around, I should think of when praying for the defeat of  Rahim Jaffer, a man who's managed to build a political career almost entirely on vote-splitting and getting his assistants to impersonate him.

Whilst perusing the list of candidates, I clicked to the website of Liberal candidate Claudette Roy and found this:

Get a load of that slogan! I seem to recall a similar party using a similar slogan in an election recently... and getting absolutely steamrolled. One would almost think that one of Jaffer's assistants was using his well-honed impersonation skills to pose as Claudette Roy and make this website...

Comments

[Anonymous]

Claudette Roy? You've got to be kidding. Linda Duncan is running again for the NDP, and she got almost twice as many votes as the Liberals last time.

If your priority is voting Liberal, be my guest and vote for the Roy with the crappy slogan. If your priority is knocking Jaffer out of his seat, though, it's got to be Duncan.

[jk]

Anonymous:

I was worried when I wrote the post that the way I had structured the sentences would make it appear that I was inclined to support Claudette Roy. I guess my worries weren't unfounded...

So, just to make it clear, my priority certainly isn't voting Liberal. I just wanted to point this out as an example of a horrible slogan. Sorry for the ambiguity.