Jean to seek UCP nomination in Fort McMurray
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Summary
Former Wildrose leader Brian Jeanne files papers to seek the United Conservative nomination in his old riding of Fort McMurray-Lac-La-Biche. Jeanne has spent the last year sniping at Jason Kenney from the sidelines, calling for him to resign on several occasions.
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Hello, I'm Western Standard News Editor Dave Naylor.
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Former Wild Rose leader Brian Jeanne wants to go back to his old stomping grounds.
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The man who lost the UCP leadership to Premier Jason Kenney
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has filed papers to seek the UCP nomination in his old writing of Fort McMurray-Lac-La-Biche.
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Quote, you spoke and I listened, wrote Jeanne in a Facebook posting.
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Something must be done or Rachel Notley will win the next election with an overwhelming majority.
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The quote continued, I have filed papers with Elections Alberta to pursue the UCP nomination
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The writing was left vacant recently when UCP MLA Lila Goodridge resigned to run for the Federal Conservatives.
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She easily won the writing, capturing 67% of the vote.
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Jeanne was the leader of the original Wild Rose and was leader of the opposition from 2015 to 2017.
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Jeanne has spent most of last year sniping at Kenney from the sidelines,
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calling for him to resign on several occasions.
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In June, Jeanne called on Kenney to quit in the wake of the Sky Palace scandal.
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Quote, for the good of the UCP, for the good of Alberta,
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Jeanne wrote in capital letters on his Facebook page.
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Quote, I have been thinking about this for the last several days,
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as I watched Premier Kenney take another relatively minor issue and turn it into a political crisis.
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I was disappointed that the Premier and his chosen inner circle made a mess of following COVID rules
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But I was much more disappointed that when he was clearly in the wrong,
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And that got me to thinking about how often I've been disappointed in the government and what it does.
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When they do things that Albertans overwhelmingly support,
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they somehow manage to do them in a way that offends and angers the most people possible.
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The Premier seems to think that everyone who isn't 100% loyal to Jason Kenney is an enemy of the state.
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This brutal attitude, unquote, has migrated its way into the political staff,
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who still support Kenney and many of his ministers.