NDP Accepts Floor Crosser Without Having Run In By-Elxn
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they're loud. and nothing is secret in today's electoral landscape. if they didn't believe in her move she would be getting death threats right now.
If you read the tweets directed at Sanrdra right now, her constitents are not happy with this floor crossing.
yup. if their constiuents don't like it then vote their representative next time
This comes down to "why 'next tme"?
Why not just now?
i'm not into whinging and genuflecting before some false god. not one in heaven or made up by the male ruling class.
Oh, that's it. Somehow, this is all about penises.
quizzical wrote:they're loud. and nothing is secret in today's electoral landscape. if they didn't believe in her move she would be getting death threats right now.If you read the tweets directed at Sanrdra right now, her constitents are not happy with this floor crossing.
how do you know they're her constituents? they self-identified? lololol
and i don't follow twitter. it's a pain in the ass. only old people do now like Donald Trump. ;)
.... made up by the male ruling class.
Oh, that's it. Somehow, this is all about penises.
did i say a word about penises? nope.
have males stopped ruling the world and believing they've a right to? nope.
until they cede and allow "democracy" to occur and actually believe in equity it remains what it is...and i'm not going to be bullied into ignoring it or not stating it for what it is.
i'm really tired of male "principals" trying to dominate my world. men used to have duels because of their "principals" and kill each other. i find this no different. posturing at everyone else's expense.
knowlege network is having a great week on women throughout history. it's given me several epiphanies.
I wonder why this is in "Canadian politics" rather than the Alberta section of Babble. While the federal party has had this policy, I don't know if the Alberta NDP has had such a policy.
When Danielle Smith crossed the floor to the PC Government Rachel Notley labelled the move a "Betrayal" to Albertans.
This move has bigger implications, because it does affect the Federal NDP. They can no longer hold the moral high ground on floor crossings after this move
"moral high ground'???????
do you people listen to yourselves?
who are you to determine anyone's moral high ground let alone a whole riding full of peoples. if the federal NDP wants to die on ome mythological moral highground based on rejecting talent and burning bridges then they deserve to lose.
i went to her twitter feed just to see if what you were saying is accurate.
it isn't. 'nuff said by you on 'moral highground' imv.
This move has bigger implications, because it does affect the Federal NDP. They can no longer hold the moral high ground on floor crossings after this move
I don't think it affects the federal NDP. The federal NDP has already shot itself in the head at the last federal convention. Thankfully the Alberta NDP seems determined not to follow in the federal NDP's footsteps.
i went to her twitter feed just to see if what you were saying is accurate.
it isn't.
It would be better if you type Sandra Jansen in the search function of twitter, Many many people are demanding she resign and run in a byelection.
Some of the comments are so horrible, I don't want to reprint them here.
Thankfully the Alberta NDP seems determined not to follow in the federal NDP's footsteps.
The next time there is a floor crossing at the federal scene (like NDP switching to Liberal), I hope you have the same reaction.
Alberta MLA Sandra Jansen leaves PCs, joins NDP caucus
What impact will this have on the Federal NDP policy of having the elected official (who wants to cross the floor) have to resign and run in a by-election? As Rachel Notley has just accepted Sandra Jansen without demanding she run in a by-election?
If it's true -- and it does seem like it is -- then this is very unfortunate.
I think the NDP has been right (up to now) in insisting that floor-crossers get their choice approved by the electorate. It was a triumph of principle over opportunism. They traded the high ground for a free seat.
i disagree. i think it was the right thing to do.
if you knew or were in touch what has happened to the women PC MLAs by their own party in the wake of Jason Kenney's advent then the NDP should welcome ALL with open arms.
Nobody knows all the ins-and-outs when an elected official decides to cross the floor, and this seems to be another example of "it's-okay-when-my-team-does-it-but-not-when-the-other-guys-do." I trust that she had a valid reason, but she can still go through the formal steps. If it was specifically because she felt uncomfortable with the harassment in the PC party, the local NDP would probably have welcomed her with open arms at the nomination meeting anyways, and they, along with the people who respected her just as a community representative regardless of party representation, would have worked damn hard to make sure she won that by-election.
That said, putting aside the ethics of floor-crossing, this here is good news for Notley when she needed some and a blow to the PC-Wildrose alliance.
Remember she was only 1 of 11 PC MLA to get elected, and she got elected on the strength of her name.
But now whenever a floor crossing does happen, and the NDP complains, all their critics have to do is point to this example.
AB is a fucking mess.
what a waste of tax payers dollars imv.
added you have a boat load of time and energy spent needlessly.
like really a total waste of money and time resources
people are spread thin. there's no need to expend stupidly on "proving" how pure and good.
time and money are resources desperately needed not wasted on useless circuses.
And are you laying the blame on Rachel Notley or the PC government that came before her
You can't put a price on democracy
if the NDP have "complained" then imv they're being whiney weiners and need to stop anyway.
has the whinnging ever stop a floor crosser? ya no i don't think so.
if the constituents don't like it then vote them out the next time.
why in the hell does anyone want the NDP to look whiney?
not on Rachel. imv she is making as best choices as she can to try and make work AB. the shit she has to put up with is a full time job. we don't need her wasting time on a needless bi-election. nor the money.
democracy is not being disserved in anyway. you can bet she talked at length with her constituents. its a huge move on her part and one i'm sure she never took lightly. they voted for her not her party.
the PC government prior and the current Wild Rose and PC destructive actions fueled by corporate dollars are making a toxic mess with tinges of implied violence occuring everywhere and women are bearing the brunt.
the fking money wasted on a bi-election could fund women's shelters and food banks ffs.
Personally, I always thought our policy on floor-crossing was rather silly. Totally ineffectual when someone defects from us, gives rise to situations like this one when someone defects to us, and even if we were to make it law, nothing would stop someone from sitting as an "independent NDPer" or even serving in cabinet. That's just how the Westminster system works. Most people here weren't fooled by Trudeau officially keeping Liberal senators out of caucus, and a floor-crossing law would be the same thing.
I'm sure the NDP welcomed her to the NDP. It's just that there was a time when the voters had to welcome her to the NDP first.
It's not for the NDP to stop all floor-crossers.
But on principle, they could say they won't accept them without a byelection to ensure that the electorate also approves.
If Trudeau had his way all those Independent Liberals would just be Independent like the other current 44 Independent Senators
No NDP policy could possibly expect to control someone leaving the NDP.
This isn't a "situation". All the NDP has to do is wait until the people who voted for Jansen under the banner of the PCs to say that they also want her to represent them under the banner of the NDP. What's the hard part about that?
The idea that the cost of a byelection could be better spent on white canes for the blind, or whatever, really isn't the point. If we just want to save the cost of byelections then if an MP dies or resigns, why not just let the PM appoint someone then? I'm sure that if that were the policy we'd somehow find the the pittance that a byelection costs under the sofa cushions.
Exactly, I'm not a PC. However the people in that riding voted for a PC MLA not an NDP MLA. The people should decide what party they want to represent them in that riding.
there was a time???? wth "welcome" what??? i don't even get the comment let alone the rational. i believe people should vote for the person emboding their ideology. if said person wins then find themselves in a party whose ideology has changed or misrepresented themselves then i would trust the person whom i voted for who embodied my values to move where OUR values were more in line. if her constituents support her move and this can be proven i see nothing wrong with accepting talent into the NDP.
then why whine? or stand on some meaningless principal
what principle? i want to waste money and time standing on the principal of some unknowable purity?
eta: byelections cost lots. if there is a sitting MLA or MP and the spots not abscent then don't waste the money or time. there's shit needs doing.
stop trivializing what's going on in AB to fund raising for "white canes". people's lives are being threatened. harassment is rampant. one female PC MLA quit period.
we don't need to lose women in politics because some men want to welcome them to their party before they're considered pure enough or principaled enough.
So if the local NDP candidate you voted for crossed the floor to the PCs then you would continue to vote for him/her?
Is that not exactly what I'm saying?
How shall we know that her constituents support this change without a byelection?
if they embodied my personal ideals which is not impossible. politics in AB have been skewed for decades. they need to
they're loud. and nothing is secret in today's electoral landscape. if they didn't believe in her move she would be getting death threats right now.
look at it this way; the MLA's constituent work isn't the party's work it's their's alone.
it's the work at the constituent level which means the most to the voters if you really want to boil it down.
and if they don't like her move then they vote her out next election. she is still doing her constituent work only party affiliation has changed.