The manager of Jeff Callaway’s 2017 campaign to lead the United Conservative Party was slapped with $15,000 in fines yesterday by Alberta’s Election Commissioner for “obstruction of an investigation.” Talk about fear and loathing on the campaign trail! This strange yarn has more twists than a fairground pretzel! From the
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One of my guilty pleasures is Jim’ll Paint It — where readers request crazy scenarios and Jim makes them happen through the magic of imagination (and some kind of hallucinogen, I’m guessing.) Alltop loves a good hallaughinogen.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The key to renewed Liberal Party power: The Untouched Constituency
Just started reading Fear and Loathing: One the Campaign Trail ’72, by Hunter S. Thompson, and came across this passage early on: There are only two ways to make it in big-time politics today: One is to come on like a mean dinosaur, with a high-powered machine that scares the
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Devotees of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson‘s manic genius are all too aware of the title’s significance as one of the final banal observations of a shooting star burning out and falling to earth. Here’s an excerpt from that 2003 interview with Tim Russert: Now go read RossK’s dedication… with the
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