{"id":24774,"date":"2014-03-21T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24774"},"modified":"2014-03-21T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:14:22","slug":"calgary-mayor-trolls-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/calgary-mayor-trolls-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary mayor trolls reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary&#8217;s mayor Naheed Nenshi was asked for his reaction to the resignation of Alberta Premier Alison Redford. The conversation went in odd directions, according to the <em>Calgary Herald<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.calgaryherald.com\/2014\/03\/19\/we-asked-for-redford-reaction-mayor-nenshi-gave-us-a-manifesto-on-partisan-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Markusoff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s start this transcript of Calgary\u2019s mayor reacting to Alison Redford\u2019s resignation with the last question I threw to him, as a just-in-case query: Will you run for Alberta PC leadership?<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t get the pat \u201cno\u201d I expected. We got Naheed Nenshi talking about \u201cAlbertans,\u201d even though three-quarters of [them] aren\u2019t in his jurisidiction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u201cSeriously? There will be lots and lots and lots of opportunities to talk about lots and lots and lots of different people. I can tell you regardless of whatever role I\u2019m in personally, I will take a very serious part in this next election, always fighting for the interests of Calgarians and Albertans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let\u2019s rewind, then, to the beginning of his statement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Obviously what has happened tonight will be covered as a political story, and it is a political story. But I also want to remind everyone that this is also a human story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s about a real person, a good person, a person who loves this province and and has worked and made incredible sacrifices\u2026  And it\u2019s the story of a system that takes someone like that and chews them up and spits them out. And I think that\u2019s what we really need to remember today.  Alison Redford is a good person. A good person who has tried to do great things for this province, who has had amazing dreams and amazing ideas for what we can do together as a community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Every one of us who goes into public service knows that it can be a tough job. Every one of us knows you\u2019ve got to have a thick skin, sometimes people say really cruel things about you on the Internet. But I think all of us as Albertans need to really think about what has happened over the last several weeks. And what that means to how we get great people to be politicians, how we get great people to enter into public service.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The partisanship under that dome in Edmonton is what leads to this. And I hope that whoever the new premier will think hard about how we make sure that what happens under that dome isn\u2019t just for party and caucus, as we heard over and over again in the premier\u2019s statement today, but it\u2019s about people. It\u2019s about Albertans. It\u2019s about how we do the best for all citizens of this great province. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.calgaryherald.com\/2014\/03\/20\/nenshi-when-asked-whether-he-may-run-for-pc-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\">follow-up post<\/a> the next day indicated that perhaps Nenshi wasn&#8217;t quite ready to make a play for the premiership:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dave Taylor of Newstalk 770 got the third kick at this question, when Nenshi made his monthly appearance on the AM station\u2019s afternoon call-in show. I think most reasonable people will take this as a \u201cNo\u201d from a mayor who enjoys pestering this reporter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>I mean look. What\u2019s real here is let\u2019s not get into the handicapping of who\u2019s who and what\u2019s what. It\u2019s way too, way too early. We\u2019re going to have over the next months \u2013 You know what I\u2019ve always said about party politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Plus as I always say I\u2019ve got the best job in the world at the moment, certainly in Canada. And I just got reelected to it so let\u2019s see ow I do at it. I really don\u2019t like by-elections. I don\u2019t think that one should force that on people. And I got lots of work to do. Is that coy enough? I figure I have to be coy otherwise poor Jason Markusoff\u2019s head won\u2019t explode.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary&#8217;s mayor Naheed Nenshi was asked for his reaction to the resignation of Alberta Premier Alison Redford. The conversation went in odd directions, according to the Calgary Herald&#8216;s Jason Markusoff: Let\u2019s start this transcript of Calgary\u2019s mayor reacting to Alison Redford\u2019s resignation with the last question I threw to him, as a just-in-case query: Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[542,812],"class_list":["post-24774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-alberta","tag-calgary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6rA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24776,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774\/revisions\/24776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}