Thread by @BarbLarochelle

A municipal election should not be about provincial (or federal) politics. Unfortunately, it is this time, more than any municipal election I can recall. #ableg. 1/

UCP laid the groundwork for this, last year with their Local Authorities Election Amendment Act. Kaycee Madu, then-minister of municipal affairs, declared “The next round of local elections will be critical for the future of Alberta” 2/
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UCP raised contribution levels and made it possible so that their big donors, who want to hand pick our municipal governments to their own advantage, can donate a larger amount to an unlimited number of candidates. None of it has to be revealed until *after* the election. 3/

Although many candidates will have revealed their donor lists before tomorrow, others have made excuses not to, and we won’t know who has donated until later. Meanwhile, there are clearly candidates who have UCP’s support and preference, especially in Edmonton and Calgary. 4/

If elected, they will do UCP’s bidding, and enable their disastrous and inept razing of Alberta to extend to a deeper level. UCP wants these people on every town and city council, as mayors, reeves and councillors. They want them on every school board. 5/

The *last* thing Alberta needs right now is to elect a bunch of people who will go along with anything UCP wants, and who, like UCP’s crop of useless MLAs, are primarily concerned with their own political futures and care nothing for the people they were elected to represent. 6/

If you never cared who is on your local school board, care now. Investigate which candidates do and do not support the disastrous, racist curriculum UCP wants to force on young Albertans to inculcate them with their backward, racist, dangerous world view. 7/

Be careful, though, because there are some who claim to oppose the curriculum who are still anti-vaxxing, science deniers. 8/

I was appalled yesterday to hear on the news that municipal elections typically draw about 32% of eligible voters, and that this year might have a relatively ‘high’ turnout of 40% or so. What??? 9/

The referendum questions will draw more of UCP supporters to the polls. The rest of us need to be there too. Don’t be complacent. Get out there and do what you can to stop UCP from installing their enablers everywhere. UCP has hurt us enough. Give them a glimpse of 2023. 10/10