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PC Government funds sorority house makeover.

A FOIP request by the Alberta Liberals reveals that the PC Government gave a university sorority more than $18,000 in Community Initiatives Program funding.

Click here to download a larger PDF of the cartoon and and learn more about how taxpayers’ money went toward funding the high-end furniture makeover.

Ron Wood, the former press secretary to Reform Party founder Preston Manning, is shifting his allegiances to the Alberta Liberals in the provincial election.

Wood said Thursday the governing Tories under Premier Ed Stelmach are tired, old and complacent and "need some time in exile."

Now retired, Wood said he's endorsing Alberta Liberal candidate Pat Murray in his home riding of Calgary-North Hill.

-The Canadian Press, February 7/08

Well, old-fashioned vote-buying often works with Alberta's docile electorate -- though Stelmach may not realize this kind of ad hoc outlay of dollars does set the lie to his key campaign promise that he has a "plan."

A plan means orderly spending, not a grab bag of goodies.

-Edmonton Journal, February 3/08

Proof of royalty "guilt." Censored report shows government was told
in 2006 Alberta missing out on oil billions.

-Edmonton Journal, January 5/08

Your Treat: What you've bought and don't know about - Government officials have been ringing up thousands in personal expenses on government credit cards, including a trip to Las Vegas, Hawaii, and drinks at the bar.

-CBC, Your Treat

I think we need to take a hard look at the way this government is dishing out taxpayers’ money.

I don’t think a $300 shoe rack is what Albertans have in mind when they file their taxes each year.

- Maurice Tougas, MLA
Alberta Liberal Gaming Critic

Last Thursday, Gary Mar officially learned he's becoming Alberta's agent in Washington and resigning as a Tory MLA in late October.

Three days later, he jetted to Germany on a publicly funded trip to learn how to become a better legislator.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation's provincial director simply laughed when told.

"That's ridiculous," Scott Hennig said. "There's no justification to send an MLA with one foot out the door on a junket to learn how to
be a better parliamentarian when he's only got maybe 30 days left of being a parliamentarian."

- Edmonton Journal, October 5/07

In other words, the Tories get us into this mess because they couldn't build enough of the needed stuff since most of the dough had to go to kill the evil debt as quickly as possible. And now to catch with the backlog in building they created the province says it has to go back into the very debt that just three years ago had to be avoided at all costs.

- Calgary Sun, December 5/07

If you think the price of real estate in Edmonton couldn't be more ridiculously expensive, you should know that in Old Glenora there's a non-existent home that cost $550,000. And you, dear taxpayer, have paid for it.

- Edmonton Journal, November 29/07

These results simply confirm the cosy relationship between the Klein
government and the energy firms. This siphoning away from the public purse into private profit probably ensures a pipeline full of donations come election time.

- Kenon Politics, October 2/07

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PC Government funds sorority house makeover.

Democracy derailed.

A government out of control.