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The Writ Podcast - Ep. #64: The Danielle Smith era begins
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Danielle Smith holds first news conference as Alberta premier – October 11, 2022
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Danielle Smith sworn in as Alberta's 19th premier
Smith replaces outgoing Premier Jason Kenney after winning UCP leadership race
"I do not take these responsibilities lightly, and I will make sure I work every day to earn your trust," Danielle Smith said Tuesday, moments after Lt.-Gov. Salma Lakhani swore her in as Alberta's 19th premier and minister of intergovernmental affairs.
Smith defeated six other candidates to become leader of the United Conservative Party last week, garnering about 54 per cent of the vote on the sixth ballot.
The party had been on the hunt for a new leader after UCP members voted 51.4 per cent in favour of outgoing premier Jason Kenney's continued leadership, prompting him to announce his resignation.
In a ceremony at Government House in Edmonton Tuesday morning, Lakhani said she had received Kenney's resignation as premier and invited Smith to form government.
"I trust that you will bring the best of your abilities to the task ahead and I thank you for your willingness to serve our province and its people," Lakhani said.
Premier promises
A hallmark of Smith's campaign to become UCP leader and premier was a pledge to bring forward an Alberta Sovereignty Act, which she says would allow the legislature to pass a motion pledging to disregard federal laws counter to Alberta's best interests.
An advisor on her campaign told CBC News this weekend that the proposed act won't empower Alberta to disregard Supreme Court rulings.
Smith was also deeply critical of the Kenney government's use of public health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Our rights and freedoms have been tested," Smith said following her swearing in. "I will ensure as head of this government that those rights and freedoms are protected and will never be taken for granted again."
Smith has pledged to amend the Alberta Human Rights Act to add vaccination status as a grounds subject to protection from discrimination.
Danielle Smith was sworn in by Justice Minister Tyler Shandro and Alberta Lt.-Gov. Salma Lakhani. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)
She called on other provinces and territories to stand with Alberta to develop its energy resources and agriculture sector.
She echoed the message from her campaign, and her leadership acceptance speech, that responsible governing must also include care for those who are struggling, particularly in the face of inflation.
"We are Albertans," she said. "Yes, we are entrepreneurs and businesspeople and fiscally prudent. But we also have heart and compassion that matches the size of our mountains."
Her comments included acknowledgement of Indigenous people as the first occupants of the land, and a wish to learn more about the impacts of the residential school system. She also gave a nod to immigrant communities that settled Alberta and brought their traditions and culture to the 117-year-old province.
Political history
Smith first became involved with politics while attending the University of Calgary, where she supported the Progressive Conservatives.
She has worked at the Fraser Institute think tank, served as a Calgary school trustee on a conflict-ridden school board, penned columns in the Calgary Herald and hosted a national TV current affairs program.
Frustrated with PC government spending, Smith joined the Wildrose Alliance party in 2009, and became party leader later that year. She was elected as MLA for Highwood in the 2012 provincial election, and became Opposition leader in the legislature.
In December 2014, Smith and seven other Wildrose MLAs crossed the floor to join the Progressive Conservatives, which angered many grassroots supporters.
She lost the PC nomination race in her riding, and left provincial politics after the 2015 election, after which she returned to broadcasting to host a talk radio show, then served as president of Alberta Enterprise Group, which advocates for businesses.
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New Alberta premier says unvaccinated 'most discriminated against group' after swearing-in
Danielle Smith says she plans to replace Dr. Deena Hinshaw and recruit new advisers
Alberta's new premier says outgoing Premier Jason Kenney hasn't responded to her invitation for a meeting.
"I think the premier needs a little bit of time," newly minted Premier Danielle Smith said at her first press conference after being sworn in Tuesday morning.
In a tweet last week, Kenney congratulated Smith for defeating six competitors to win the UCP leadership race, and said there would be an "orderly transition" as she takes the helm of government.
"I think it was pretty clear he had a preferred candidate in this race, and it wasn't me," Smith said.
Smith also said Albertans should expect rapid changes to who is managing health care in the province.
She will replace Alberta's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, and recruit a new team of advisers in public health that consider COVID-19 to be an endemic disease.
AHS leadership review
She also repeated a pledge to review the leadership of Alberta Health Services (AHS) by the end of 2022.
"I want our front-line health care workers to know that reinforcements are coming," Smith said. "We cannot continue understaffing our hospitals and then forcing our front-line workers to work mandatory overtime and be called in on days off and have to cancel their holidays."
As the world grapples with a shortage of health-care workers and professionals burn out, Smith says Alberta won't have any vaccination mandates, which will help attract employees to the province.
Last year, when the Alberta government ordered AHS to require its 121,000 employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19, about 1,650 workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing the jab. The province has since rescinded that rule.
Smith has been deeply critical of the Kenney government's use of public health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has pledged to amend the Alberta Human Rights Act to add vaccination status as a grounds subject to protection from discrimination.
"They have been the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime," Smith said of unvaccinated Canadians at the press conference.
Vaccination politics
Chaldeans Mensah, a political science professor at Edmonton's MacEwan University, said making dramatic changes to the top of the health system could cause unexpected consequences throughout the organization.
He said it's also problematic to bring the politics of vaccination into the recruitment of health-care workers.
"You typically are recruiting people with the experience and the qualifications to do the job," he said.
Mensah said Kenney's silent treatment of Smith shows the party has internal rifts to heal.
"Obviously this is a big problem for the UCP," he said. "They need to be united ahead of the next election."
Smith has also called a Nov. 8 byelection in the southern Alberta riding of Brooks-Medicine Hat, where she will seek a seat in the legislature.
Should she win that byelection, Smith hopes to be sworn in as an MLA by Nov. 29, at which time the legislature would begin a four-week fall sitting.
Alberta sovereignty
Earlier Tuesday at a swearing-in ceremony for her premiership, Smith said she will use her role to defend citizens' rights and freedoms while governing with compassion for the vulnerable.
A hallmark of Smith's campaign to become UCP leader and premier was a pledge to bring forward an Alberta Sovereignty Act, which she says would allow the legislature to pass a motion pledging to disregard federal laws counter to Alberta's best interests.
An adviser on her campaign told CBC News this weekend that the proposed act won't empower Alberta to disregard Supreme Court rulings.
But in a Sept. 6 briefing document on the act, Smith said that if a court deems Alberta's actions unconstitutional, the legislature would have to decide how to proceed.
Reporters pressed Smith on Tuesday afternoon about whether the act would adhere to the rule of law. Although she did not directly answer the question, Smith said her job is to find creative ways to ensure the federal government doesn't encroach on provincial jurisdiction, and not all of those approaches will depend on a sovereignty act.
She said she intends to support Supreme Court of Canada decisions. She also reiterated her hope that changing global conditions and new information would allow Alberta to re-litigate the Supreme Court's 2021 finding that the federal consumer carbon tax is constitutional.
Some UCP MLAs have said they could not vote in favour of a sovereignty act as described.
Also Tuesday in Calgary, Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley called on those MLAs to vote against the act in the legislature and defeat it.
"There's no good version of this," Notley said. "If [Smith and her supporters] don't believe that they're going to do what they said they were going to do up until the leadership vote, then they should just walk away from the whole thing altogether."
Danielle Smith was sworn in by Justice Minister Tyler Shandro and Alberta Lt.-Gov. Salma Lakhani. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)
At her swearing in, Smith called on other provinces and territories to stand with Alberta to develop its energy resources and agriculture sector.
She echoed the message from her campaign and her leadership acceptance speech that responsible governing must also include care for those who are struggling, particularly in the face of inflation.
"We are Albertans," she said. "Yes, we are entrepreneurs and businesspeople and fiscally prudent. But we also have heart and compassion that matches the size of our mountains."
Smith defeated six other candidates to become leader of the United Conservative Party last week, garnering about 54 per cent of the vote on the sixth ballot.
The party had been on the hunt for a new leader after UCP members voted 51.4 per cent in favour of Kenney's continued leadership, prompting him to announce his resignation.
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The reinvention(s) of Danielle Smith
How Alberta’s next premier talked her way out of political oblivion to become the Great Right Hope
Bobby Painter was so angry, he recalls, he used to have to turn off the radio when Danielle Smith’s talk show came on.
It was 2015, barely a year after she’d made the move that, up until now, was the defining move of her political life — crossing the floor from his beloved Wildrose Party into Jim Prentice’s Tory government, and Smith was trying to resurrect herself in broadcasting. Painter, an ardent Wildroser, didn’t want to hear that voice on his AM radio — not in his farm tractor, not at home, not in the school bus he drove part-time.
Eventually, the semi-retired farmer from the tiny east-central Alberta hamlet of Huxley gave Corus Radio’s Danielle Smith Show a shot. Her segments slamming deficit budgets, the interviewees doubting the urgency of climate action, the radical solutions floated to remedying Alberta-Ottawa relations — it all reminded Painter that Smith was as soundly conservative as he was.
His bitterness about the floor crossing drifted away. “Once I got over that, I listened to every episode, every chance I got,” Painter told CBC News in September. He’d just finished listening to Smith again — at her United Conservative leadership campaign event at the community hall in the town of Three Hills, 120 kilometres northeast of Calgary.
He sported a baseball cap that said, “More Alberta, Less Ottawa.” Painter’s excited that she promised to deliver on that old conservative slogan and stick it to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with plans for Alberta to go it alone on police and pensions, and more with her Alberta Sovereignty Act.
Danielle Smith’s rise to UCP leader and premier caps one of the most remarkable political comebacks in Canadian history. Eight years after she’d led a mass walkout of the opposition party she led, leading to an NDP provincial victory and her own political oblivion, she’s risen anew, to a level that even she’s admitted she wasn’t ready for in her Wildrose days.
Media to business advocacy to politics — then repeat
But comeback isn’t new for Smith. She’s spent decades reinventing herself, over and over.
She’s not the first person to have retreated to media after bombing out of politics, nor the first to use airtime and a media spotlight to relaunch a political career. But there may not be anyone else who’s done what she’s done — gone from politics to media to business advocacy to politics to media to business advocacy and then to politics yet again.
Through these seasonal cycles of Smith, some things don’t seem to change: her conservatism, (Margaret Thatcher’s Iron Lady determination with a dollop of Ayn Rand libertarianism); communications savvy; smarts paired with an insatiable curiosity, which can lead her to some wooly ideas; and clashes or miscalculations leading to the turbulent end to her job, and not just in elected politics.
Despite the harshness of her exit after the floor-crossing — her constituents even denied her the nomination to run again in 2015 — she didn’t let her long-standing political dreams die. “I always hoped that I’d be able to have a chance to come back,” Smith said in an interview with CBC News earlier this week.
She’s included apologies and regret for that tactic in virtually every speech she’s given since in villages and cities throughout Alberta, and appreciates that so many conservatives are willing to give her a second chance.
Painter goes a step further: the fact Smith did it before, and admitted her mistakes, tells him she’ll never make such a political misstep again.
The young Progressive Conservative
When Calgarians Doug and Sharon Smith had their eldest daughter and second child on April 1, 1971, they named her Marlaina Danielle, a homage to a catchy little love song, Marlena by The Four Seasons. But she’s always been known as Danielle, or D (seldom Dani, she said).
Her parents juggled kid-raising, jobs and commerce degrees to obtain jobs in the oil patch; when Danielle was old enough, she’d babysit her three younger siblings. The family instilled a strong work ethic: she’d work through high school at a bingo parlour and at McDonald’s, and put herself through her University of Calgary arts degree by progressing from busing tables to supervising at the oyster bar Cannery Row.
Outside work and English seminar classes, she fell hard for the University of Calgary campus politics of the early 1990s, which spanned the spectrum with other future luminaries like Naheed Nenshi and activist-cum-media mogul Ezra Levant. She was active in the campus Progressive Conservatives, dabbled in provincial campaigning, and met Sean McKinsley, a fellow undergrad she began dating and would later marry.
She returned to U of C for another degree, one that would help her carve out a living. She majored in economics, honing her fiscal conservative ideas, but her bond with political science professor Tom Flanagan would prove most formative. Not only would he be campaign manager for her Wildrose Party 2012 election, but in 1996 he also recommended her for an internship with the conservative think-tank Fraser Institute, back in Vancouver.
There, she was giddy to attend a book-reading by Thatcher, who by then had become a hero to her. Britain’s resolutely Conservative first woman prime minister didn’t just inspire Smith’s ideology and desire to enter politics; the Iron Lady also influenced her to try speaking in a lower voice register, to add gravitas and clarity. She’d enrol in Toastmasters and Dale Carnegie courses to further hone her communication skills and confidence.
'I was a little more strident'
Back in Calgary, she joined a property rights advocacy group that critiqued, among other things, endangered species legislation and indoor smoking restrictions. Meanwhile, another young star was rising: a Reform MP first elected in 1997 by the name of Jason Kenney. He’d worked alongside her partner McKinsley at the Alberta Taxpayers Association, and later in his Parliament office.
Smith and Kenney became conservative allies, and when his constituency aide Peggy Anderson ran for public school board trustee, Smith ran too, winning a post in 1998.
Smith and Anderson became the unofficial Reform bloc on the Calgary Board of Education, getting into regular spats with more progressive trustees. The future premier, testing out her political chops, would boldly show public support for higher school fees and school closures, for the sake of better budgeting.
“I was a little more strident,” she’d later tell the Calgary Herald. “I was probably not as open-minded about some of the other legitimate issues that the other trustees raised.” The right-left squabbles and acrimony became so great that the provincial education minister intervened and turfed the entire school board. After 11 months, Smith’s first political gig was toast.
Her first media gig followed swiftly. Her intelligence and clear-eyed views impressed Calgary Herald management, who hired her in late 1999 to author newspaper editorials and columns. She racked up hundreds of bylines over the next several years, from health reform pleas to pleading for fiscal prudence at City Hall.
Later on, old opinions would get dredged up to deride Smith — when she was campaigning as Wildrose leader in 2012, her Tory rival Alison Redford flagged a piece proposing a prostitution red-light district in Calgary, and this summer the NDP-aligned PressProgress reminded the world she’d once written a piece claiming some health benefits of moderate tobacco consumption.
She also caught the eye of producer David Moretta. A few years after her marriage ended with McKinsley, Smith and Moretta wed. They remain a pair, and co-own a restaurant in High River, south of Calgary. She does their bookkeeping and weekend dishwashing, roles she never had in her younger restaurant days.
(Moretta and Smith tried to have kids together and fertility treatment proved unsuccessful, a fact Smith publicized in 2012 when a Tory aide tweeted smugly about the Wildrose leader’s childlessness.)
The PCs woo but the Wildrose wins
In 2008, Premier Ed Stelmach’s crew dispatched a rookie Tory MLA to try talking some sense into Danielle Smith. She’d left the Herald and was now Alberta director for a small-business association, but remained politically vocal.
Irked by spending increases in Stelmach’s budget, she began musing about joining the Wildrose side, which then had no legislature seats but remained a right-of-centre, rural-based threat to the governing PCs. Enter Rob Anderson, young lawyer and fiscal hawk from Airdrie, who took her out for a series of coffees.
“I was trying to recruit her to come fix the old PC party from within because at the time it still had some good parts to it and we just needed a bit of renewal, in my view,” recalled Anderson, who served as Smith’s UCP leadership campaign chair. “But she won that debate, and the rest was history.”
A year later, she ran for and easily won the Wildrose leadership; Kenney lent her his campaign team. Anderson, still struck by how articulate, intelligent and ideologically driven she was when he tried to woo her into the Tory fold, crossed the floor in early 2010 into her opposition camp.
By the time the 2012 campaign rolled around, Smith’s Wildrose Party was poised to slay a dynasty. Then-premier Redford led a government swamped by controversy and cronyism allegations, and Wildrose led the polls.
But with the premiership so close, Smith watched opportunity slip away. When Wildrose candidates’ controversial utterances emerged, most notoriously one pastor’s old sermon that gay people would burn in a “lake of fire,” she stood by her fellow Wildrosers in the name of free speech. And then she acknowledged during forums that she didn’t believe the science was settled on climate change. The polls proved wrong: Wildrose won 17 seats, the Tories 61.
Smith insists she’s learned from the failures of the only provincial election she’s contested, about not reining in teammates who say or do the unthinkable. Yet she’s also emphasized the hazards of “cancel culture” in her campaign rhetoric.
On climate change, Smith professed at one recent debate she’s “come around full circle” since doubting the scientific consensus in 2012. But what she’s shifted to support in 2022 is the oil industry’s technological solutions to curb emissions, not climate change’s causes or the urgency.
Asked about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s resounding stance on the causes of the environmental crisis this week, she resisted taking a position herself.
“I’m not a scientist,” she said. “I’m not a scientist. I defer to what the industry has agreed. This industry accepts the consensus and they’re working on practical solutions, and it’s my job to support them.”
In Opposition, then out
Amid defeat in the 2012 election, Smith could celebrate having grown her opposition party several times over. She couldn’t have known at the time that she was about orchestrate her Wildrose Party shrinking back to rump status.
Between Smith’s relentless opposition, some solid investigative journalism and internal Tory sniping, Redford was drummed out of office, to be replaced as premier in fall 2014 by Jim Prentice, the former federal Conservative cabinet minister.
This Tory renewal seemed to send Smith’s party into tailspin. Wildrose lost all four byelections Prentice called after winning his leadership; two MLAs defected to the Tories, and more threatened to bolt; party executives, riding presidents and donors were fed up. Before she led Anderson and seven other Wildrose MLAs into the Tory benches — leaving just five Wildrose members in the legislature — her leadership was already clouded in doubts, including her own.
Smith has since framed it as her awkward attempt to unite the right, years before Kenney fused together the PCs and Wildrose into UCP. The Wildrose grassroots seethed, and Tory members chose somebody else to run for the party in her High River riding.
Alberta voters chose somebody else to run the province, too, rejecting both the Tories and Wildrose and electing Rachel Notley’s NDP.
Smith has repeatedly declared her remorse about how she, while besieged by Wildrose discontent, crossed over to Prentice’s party without consulting her own faction’s members. She knows now to listen before acting so rashly.
“I may not have been ready then. I’m ready now,” she told the Canadian Common Sense podcast in April.
'Danielle, you have no crazy radar'
Smith spent close to six years, three or more hours every weekday, trying to erase from Albertans’ minds the bitterness many felt from her floor-crossing — to prove she could listen, and say things they wanted to hear.
CHQR, a Calgary talk radio channel, hired Smith weeks after the NDP’s mid-2015 victory as a host. It quickly became her own show, three hours per day to question newsmakers, field callers, and share her own takes on Alberta and the world.
Jacqueline Sinnett, her longtime show producer, recalls the extensive preparation Smith would do, the pages upon pages of handwritten notes she’d make daily about her guests and topics. But she’d also be open-minded to other rabbit holes, she recalls.
“Sometimes we would get people calling into the show with what I would think would be an absolute crazy idea.” Sinnett recalls. “And she would be like, ‘No, let’s really dig into this.’”
This habit had carried over from her days as Wildrose leader. “When I was in politics, my staff said, ‘Danielle, you have no crazy radar,’” Smith told a podcast called Cancel This in 2021. “Because I couldn’t really tell when someone wanted to approach me about an issue if they might have been a little unhinged or a little conspiratorial.”
Off the air
This dynamic bubbled to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Early on, she tweeted falsely there was a 100-per-cent cure in hydroxychloroquine, which turned out to have no impact on virus outcomes. Global News, which by then ran her station, cracked down, and Smith apologized publicly for her comment.
Smith’s interest in questioning the established, mainstream scientific findings about public health continued. She’d later assert that her bosses had dissuaded her from dozens of interviews or takes on the pandemic.
Finally, in early 2021, Smith announced she’d soon leave her longtime talk show, to evade the forces of “political correctness.” After she left in February, Smith posted to her newly launched newsletter Global’s disciplinary letter from months earlier against her handling of pandemic information.
She’d go on to say that dozens of topics or guests were discouraged because of their questionable nature, and she felt pressure to hew to the medical establishment and consensus line on public health.
“I’m allergic to having somebody tell me I have to say something I don’t believe,” she told a Sept. 25 virtual campaign town hall.
After she left, she was hired to lead Alberta Enterprise Group, an Edmonton-based business advocacy group. She also hosted video interviews with the conservative website Western Standard, hosting some of those same doctors and other advocates who questioned the otherwise accepted science about the efficacy of masks or vaccines and much of the body of medical research around COVID.
She embraced the vaccine-skeptical “freedom” movement long before the convoys. And she herself resisted getting the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, Canada’s most common jabs. Before the travel mandates she’s opposed were enacted in 2021, she travelled to Arizona to get the Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine.
New and improved and battle-worn
Danielle Smith announced her re-entry into provincial politics last November, after controversy boiled over about Jason Kenney’s late-game decision to impose vaccine mandates on some provincial employees and restaurant-goers. She formally launched her campaign on May 20, the day after Kenney announced his departure after a lousy leadership review, and she mused about making an apology tour for those Alberta had wronged in their pandemic rules enforcement.
She’s insisted the years of hearing out Albertans on talk radio has given her more focus. Those around her say she’s learned from her Wildrose-era mistakes, and won’t be so prone to thinking policy out loud like she used to.
“You have to, as a leader, be disciplined,” Anderson said. “And if you can’t do that, it is going to be really hard to survive in the political environment with any success.”
Anderson says Smith survived this leadership campaign with few “slip-ups.” One would inarguably be a video her campaign recorded with a naturopath, during which she opined about cancer: “everything that built before you got to Stage 4 and that diagnosis, that’s completely within your control and there is something you can do about that that is different.”
She tried to walk back her statement, but ultimately it proved not to dent her UCP leadership bid.
The party’s grassroots have moved on and forgiven her for all that she did last decade to botch her last party leadership. Now Danielle Smith becomes premier, and she will no doubt be curious to find out what Alberta’s broader public thinks about that.
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'I've never learned anything while I was talking': Todd Loewen's UCP leadership campaign focuses on listening
Independent MLA Todd Loewen. Photo by Postmedia, file While other UCP leadership candidates talk to voters, Todd Loewen says he prefers to listen.
“I always say that I’ve never learned anything while I was talking, only when I’m listening.”
The Central Peace-Notley MLA hasn’t drawn the attention of the other candidates for the premier’s job, but insists reflecting the views of those who elected him is most important to him.
“I plan on living in my community the rest of my life,” Loewen said.
“I hope I can look people in my community in the eye and feel like I’ve done my best and they feel the same way.”
What those people have told him is at the centre of his leadership effort, and what he calls a consistent set of concerns he’s heard from around Alberta.
He says those he’s met with have cited the performance of Alberta Health Services, the province’s relationship with the federal government, the UCP’s response to COVID-19 and the rising cost of living as issues of note.
“I’ve met a lot of really good people and was able to listen to a lot of people.”
Veteran backbencher
Loewen, 56, has run for office four times, first as a Wildrose Alliance candidate in 2008.
He was first elected in 2015 as a Wildrose MLA and was re-elected as a UCP member four years later.
Perhaps once best known for endearing himself to colleagues by making and serving waffles throughout late-night legislative debates, Loewen emerged as an unlikely catalyst that ultimately sparked the current leadership contest.
After publicly criticizing the government’s COVID-19 response, he resigned as caucus chief in May of last year and posted a public letter calling on Premier Jason Kenney to resign, “so that we can begin to put the province back together.”
He and fellow government MLA Drew Barnes were both expelled from the party’s caucus soon after and have since sat as independent MLAs.
Seventeen months later, he says he has “not even a little bit” of regret over speaking out.
“The night I got kicked out of caucus I had the best night’s sleep ever.”
‘We wait and we accept what happens’
He says Kenney’s imminent departure helps the party come together after splintering over the past year.
“Him leaving alone should help a lot of the divisiveness right there.”
Loewen says he has no expectations ahead of Thursday’s results and hasn’t instructed his supporters on who else to vote for on the ranked-choice ballot.
“(I’m) just looking forward to hearing what the voters have said. Just like any other election, we wait and we accept what happens.”
Most pollsters forecast him finishing between fourth and last place among the seven leadership candidates, though ranked ballot contests are notoriously unpredictable.
Regardless of the outcome, he hopes his approach is one that can win the party back the public belief that’s eroded over the prior years.
“The next election will be fought on the issue of trust,” he said.
“Albertans need to choose a leader that they can trust and can build the trust of other Albertans.”
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6 Comments
David Raymond Amos
'I've never learned anything while I was talking' Yea Right
However not once would come to the phone or return a call from me EVER
I just called this clown again and left another voicemail before
emailing him again
Iqbal Paneer
"“The next election will be fought on the issue of trust,” he said."
What a literal stupid thing to say. What does he think can be done
before May aside from collect a paycheck? The next election should be
now and it should be a provincial one once they have a leader.
Iqbal Paneer
Who even takes these clowns seriously?
"Well, I didn't like the party but I said and did nothing and just
went along with all these things I disagree with. Vote for me!" -Every
UCP MLA
Iqbal Paneer
"“Him leaving alone should help a lot of the divisiveness right there.”"
The UCP only exist because they knew that there's no "united" in
conservatives here and that they could only win by merging parties.
Nothing will change that. Nothing will change the fact they've kept up
this infighting charade for literal years. They're broken no matter
what and it shows. Enough with the deflection. Too bad they weren't
taught as children what accountability looks like.
Anne Bouscal
"I’ve never learned anything while I was talking"
Best campaign slogan ever even if I don't agree with his political leanings.
Dwayne Wladyka
Reply to Anne Bouscal
What's to agree with the UCP, given how they have only carried on with
the fiscal ineptitude and poor planning that the Alberta PCs did, ever
since Don Getty was premier of Alberta, by doing well over $60 billion
in very costly debacles and mistakes, giving Alberta a mammoth debt of
well over $100 billion? Giving Alberta the most per capita rate of
people with covid in Canada, many times, and the most per capita rate
of people with covid in all of North America, in May of 2021, also
isn't something to brag about. Neither is treating the vulnerable,
seniors, medical professionals, teachers, students and rural property
owners badly, any good. Alberta can do without the UCP.
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 12:39:56 -0300
Subject: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your buddy Jason Kenney
would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a little Pow Wow
today EH Billy Blair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Under the Dome: Danielle Smith, Thomas Lukaszuk chime in on the latest UCP caucus brouhaha
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The First Four: Travis Toews, Brian Jean, Danielle Smith and Todd
Loewen enter the United Conservative Party leadership race
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By Dave Cournoyer
Post date
June 2, 2022
9 Comments on The First Four: Travis Toews, Brian Jean, Danielle
Smith and Todd Loewen enter the United Conservative Party leadership
race
Former finance minister Travis Toews launched his United Conservative
Party leadership bid this week with a social media video.
Former finance minister Travis Toews launched his United Conservative
Party leadership bid this week with a social media video.
The race has started.
Four candidates have filed their intent with Elections Alberta to join
the race to replace Jason Kenney as leader of the United Conservative
Party:
Travis Toews: Finance Minister since 2019. MLA for Grande
Prairie-Wapiti since 2019. Former president of the Canadian
Cattleman’s Association. Looks comfortable in a business suit or
Carhartts. Sounds like the adult in the room but is connected to a
northern Alberta Bible college with some fairly backwards views about
yoga and same-sex relationships. Probably one of the more hardline
fiscal conservatives in the UCP cabinet. Grand champion of the 1976
4-H calf show in Hythe. Likely UCP establishment favourite.
Brian Jean United Conservative Party Leadership Wildrose
Brian Jean during his 2017 bid for the United Conservative Party leadership.
Brian Jean: Leader of the Wildrose Party from 2015 to 2017. Target of
a kamikaze campaign during the 2017 UCP leadership race. MLA for Fort
McMurray-Lac La Biche since 2022. MLA for Fort McMurray-Conklin from
2015 to 2018. MP for Fort McMurray-Athabasca from 2004 to 2014. Toyed
with COVID skepticism and Alberta separatism. Jason Kenney’s worst
enemy. Lawyer, businessman and Golden Boy of Fort McMurray.
Jim Prentice Danielle Smith Alberta Wildrose Merger PC
Former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith and Premier Jim Prentice on
December 17, 2014.
Danielle Smith: Leader of the Wildrose Party from 2009 to 2014. MLA
for Highwood from 2012 to 2015. Crossed the floor to the Progressive
Conservative Party in 2014. Calgary public school trustee from 1998 to
1999. Alumna of the Fraser Institute, Canadian Federation of
Independent Business, Calgary Herald, Global TV, and Chorus Radio.
Current President of the Alberta Enterprise Group. Running for the UCP
nomination in Livingstone-Macleod. Embraced COVID conspiracy theories.
Independent MLA Todd Loewen Free Alberta Strategy Separatist
Independent MLA Todd Loewen
Todd Loewen: MLA for Central Peace-Notley since 2019. MLA for Grande
Prairie-Smoky from 2015 to 2019 and Wildrose candidate in the riding
in 2008 and 2012. Resigned as UCP Caucus chair in 2021 after calling
on Kenney to resign and was kicked out of caucus the next day. Formed
a UCP Caucus-in-exile with fellow ousted MLA Drew Barnes. Drove his
motorhome in the Freedom Convoy to Ottawa. Renowned in the UCP Caucus
for his pancake cooking skills.
These four have registered others are expected.
Rajan Sawhney
Transportation Minister and Calgary-North East MLA Rajan Sawhney has
tapped longtime conservative strategist Ken Boessenkool to run her
exploratory committee.
“[W]hat this race needs right now is just not more of the same,”
Sawhney told reporters in a statement.
Children’s Services Minister and Calgary-Shaw MLA Rebecca Schultz
isn’t in the race yet but already has an endorsement from former
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall. Schultz worked for Wall’s government
before she moved to Alberta in 2016.
Government House leader and chief Kenney lieutenant Jason Nixon is
rumoured to be thinking about running.
So are former cabinet ministers Leela Aheer and Devin Dreeshen.
And Calgary Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner is rumoured to be
testing the waters. She would be an interesting addition to the race,
though recent history has not been kind to federal politicians jumping
into provincial politics in Alberta.
The party has appointed a committee that is expected to release rules,
entry requirements and timelines for the leadership race before the
beginning of summer.
UDPATE! Village of Amisk mayor Bill Rock has registered with Elections
Alberta to run in the UCP leadership race. Rock was the Wildrose Party
candidate in the Wetaskiwin-Camrose riding in the 2015 election. He
was parachuted into the riding after previously nominated candidate
Gordon Hatch withdrew from the race and endorsed PC MLA Verlyn Olson
following Danielle Smith‘s floor-crossing.
Note: Registering as a candidate with Elections Alberta does not mean
automatic approval as a candidate by the UCP. Registering with
Election Alberta allows the candidates to fundraise under Alberta’s
current political finance rules.
https://www.brianjean.ca/
brian@brianjean.ca
https://
Constituency Phone780.588.7979
EmailFortMcMurray.LacLaBiche@
https://www.toewsforalberta.
info@toewsforalberta.ca
https://
Minister Toews was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta on
April 16, 2019, as the MLA for Grande Prairie-Wapiti.
A lifelong resident of Alberta, Toews and his wife live in the Grande
Prairie region and have three children and eight grandchildren. He has
considerable business experience, and holds a CPA, CMA accounting
designation and, prior to pursuing business interests, spent twelve
years in a public accounting practice. In the past fifteen years, he
and his wife Kim, have invested in, managed and grown a corporate
family cattle ranching operation and an oilfield environmental
company.
Toews has served as a Director on a number of local non-profit boards,
as well as provincial and national industry boards and committees
including the Alberta Beef Producers and the Canadian Agri-Food Trade
Alliance. He was elected President of the Canadian Cattlemen’s
Association in 2010 and served until the term end in 2012. Toews
co-chaired the Agri-Innovators Committee for then federal Agriculture
Minister, Gerry Ritz.
As a Canadian representative on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
committee on food security and a member of the Country of Origin
Labelling Canadian World Trade Organization Legal working group, Toews
has worked globally to support Canadian interests in international
trade. In 2012, he received the QEll Diamond Jubilee Award presented
by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Governor General David Johnston
for contributions to Canadian Agriculture and Trade.
Travis Toews was appointed as Alberta’s President of Treasury Board
and Minister of Finance on April 30, 2019.
Constituency Phone825.412.2050
Legislature Phone780.415.4855
EmailGrandePrairie.Wapiti@
https://www.facebook.com/
https://thediningcar.ca/
(403) 652-7026
david@thediningcar.ca
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Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
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little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:02:40 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a
little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
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---------- Original message ----------
From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:00:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a
little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
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---------- Original message ----------
From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:01:19 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a
little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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Blair, Member of Parliament for Scarborough Southwest.
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office hours, both over the phone and via email.
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our role in serving the constituents of Scarborough Southwest. If you
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**
Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris contact avec le bureau de l'Honorable Bill
Blair, D?put? de Scarborough-Sud-Ouest.
Veuillez noter que par mesure de pr?caution en mati?re de sant? et de
s?curit?, notre bureau de circonscription ne tiendra pas de r?unions
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:00:49 -0400
Subject: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your buddy Jason Kenney
would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a little Pow Wow
today EH Billy Blair?
To: "Bill.Blair" <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>, premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>,
premier <premier@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@ontario.ca>, Norman
Traversy <traversy.n@gmail.com>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "wayne.easter"
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themayor <themayor@calgary.ca>, "barbara.massey"
<barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
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From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:28:19 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Lin Wood and Lawson Pedigo I ust called
both of you Corrrect???
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:28:14 -0400
Subject: Attn Lin Wood and Lawson Pedigo I ust called both of you Corrrect???
To: lwood <lwood@fightback.law>, klpedigo@mkp-law.net,
rjc@dhclegal.com, "Bill.Blair" <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>, washington
field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Mark.Blakely"
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<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "barbara.massey"
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Yankees say
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Rudy Giuliani Sued by Dominion Voting Systems Over False Election Claims
https://lawandcrime.com/high-
Rudy Giuliani Hires Defense Attorney Previously Accused of Dangling
Pardon to Michael Cohen
Jerry LambeNov 6th, 2019, 6:09 pm
http://davidraymondamos3.
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I just got
off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why does he lie
to me after all this time???
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Finance Public / Finance Publique (FIN)"
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:52:33 +0000
Subject: RE: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump
I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I
just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: president , mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm ,
Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.
B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au
pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press , "Andrew.Bailey" ,
fin.financepublic-
"CNN.Viewer.Communications.
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elizabeththompson" , djtjr , "Bill.Morneau" , postur ,
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oldmaison , andre
---------- Original message ----------
From: Michael Cohen
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
called and left a message for you
To: David Amos
Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
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directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be
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Trump's personal attorney the latest to be served by Canada-U.S.
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I say
http://davidraymondamos3.
Saturday, 26 December 2020
ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in Texas and many
of your associates within the Dec 11th filings
---------- Original message ----------
From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:08:11 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: FWD ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called
your office in Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th
filings
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Thank you very much for reaching out to the Office of the Hon. Bill
Blair, Member of Parliament for Scarborough Southwest.
Please be advised that as a health and safety precaution, our
constituency office will not be holding in-person meetings until
further notice. We will continue to provide service during our regular
office hours, both over the phone and via email.
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office prioritizes requests on the basis of urgency and in relation to
our role in serving the constituents of Scarborough Southwest. If you
are not a constituent of Scarborough Southwest, please reach out to
your local of Member of Parliament for assistance. To find your local
MP, visit: https://www.ourcommons.ca/
Moreover, at this time, we ask that you please only call our office if
your case is extremely urgent. We are experiencing an extremely high
volume of calls, and will better be able to serve you through email.
Should you have any questions related to COVID-19, please see:
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Thank you again for your message, and we will get back to you as soon
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Best,
MP Staff to the Hon. Bill Blair
Parliament Hill: 613-995-0284
Constituency Office: 416-261-8613
bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:b
**
Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris contact avec le bureau de l'Honorable Bill
Blair, D?put? de Scarborough-Sud-Ouest.
Veuillez noter que par mesure de pr?caution en mati?re de sant? et de
s?curit?, notre bureau de circonscription ne tiendra pas de r?unions
en personne jusqu'? nouvel ordre. Nous continuerons ? fournir des
services pendant nos heures de bureau habituelles, tant par t?l?phone
que par courrier ?lectronique.
En raison du volume ?lev? de courriels que nous recevons, notre bureau
classe les demandes par ordre de priorit? en fonction de leur urgence
et de notre r?le dans le service aux ?lecteurs de Scarborough
Sud-Ouest. Si vous n'?tes pas un ?lecteur de Scarborough Sud-Ouest,
veuillez contacter votre d?put? local pour obtenir de l'aide. Pour
trouver votre d?put? local, visitez le
site:https://www.noscommunes.
En outre, nous vous demandons de ne t?l?phoner ? notre bureau que si
votre cas est extr?mement urgent. Nous recevons un volume d'appels
extr?mement ?lev? et nous serons mieux ? m?me de vous servir par
courrier ?lectronique.
Si vous avez des questions concernant COVID-19, veuillez consulter le
site : http://www.canada.ca/le-
Merci encore pour votre message, et nous vous r?pondrons d?s que possible.
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focusing on civil litigation, representing individuals and
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#FightBack welcomes Bernie Kerik to the Board of Directors
BERNARD B. KERIK is one of the most dynamic, undisputed, controversial
and accomplished leaders in law enforcement, correction, and national
security in the United States. For more than thirty years, he served
his country with distinction, honor, and valor, most notably as the
40th Police Commissioner of the City of New York. He is also the New
York Time’s best- selling author of “The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit
of Justice.”
Bernard Kerik
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Bernard Kerik
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Minister of the Interior of Iraq
Acting
In office
May 18, 2003 – September 2, 2003
Chief Executive Paul Bremer
Preceded by Mahmud Dhiyab
Succeeded by Nuri Badran
Police Commissioner of New York City
In office
August 21, 2000 – December 31, 2001
Appointed by Rudy Giuliani
Preceded by Howard Safir
Succeeded by Raymond Kelly
Correction Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction
In office
1998–2000
Appointed by Rudy Giuliani
Preceded by Michael Jacobsen
Succeeded by Gary Lanigan
Personal details
Born Bernard Bailey Kerik
September 4, 1955 (age 65)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Linda Hales
(m. 1978; div. 1983)
Jaqueline Llerena
(m. 1983; div. 1992)
Hala Matli
(m. 1998)
Children 4
Education Empire State College (BS)
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Years of service 1974–1977
Bernard Bailey Kerik (born September 4, 1955) is an American former
police officer, consultant, 40th Commissioner of the New York Police
Department and convicted felon (tax fraud) for which he obtained the
presidential pardon in 2020.[1]
Kerik joined the New York Police Department (NYPD) in 1986. He is
perhaps best known for his 1998–2000 tenure as commissioner of the New
York City Department of Correction and his 2000–01 tenure as New York
City Police Commissioner, during which he oversaw the police response
to the September 11 attacks. Kerik conducted two extramarital affairs
simultaneously, using a Battery Park City apartment that had been set
aside for first responders at ground zero.[2]
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush appointed
Kerik as the interior minister of the Iraqi Coalition Provisional
Authority. In 2004, Bush nominated Kerik to lead the Department of
Homeland Security. However, Kerik soon withdrew his candidacy,
explaining that he had employed an undocumented immigrant as a nanny.
His admission touched off state and federal investigations. In 2006,
Kerik pleaded guilty in Bronx Supreme Court to two unrelated
misdemeanor ethics violations and was ordered to pay $221,000 in
fines. In 2009, Kerik pleaded guilty in the Southern District of New
York to eight federal felony charges, and in February 2010, he was
sentenced to four years in federal prison.[3][4] On February 18, 2020,
President Donald Trump granted Kerik a full pardon.[5] On November 7,
2020, Kerik stood behind Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
during the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[6]
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Lin Wood Will Represent Sidney Powell In Dominion Defamation Case
Alison Durkee Forbes Staff
Updated Feb 12, 2021, 02:43pm EST
Topline
Conservative attorney L. Lin Wood will join fellow lawyer Sidney
Powell’s legal team in a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit brought by
Dominion Voting Systems, even as the pro-Trump lawyer faces the threat
of litigation for spreading baseless conspiracy theories about the
company’s voting machines.
Lin Wood Georgia rally wearing MAGA hat
Attorney Lin Wood at a rally he held with Sidney Powell on Dec. 2,
2020, in Alpharetta, Ga. (AP ... [+] ASSOCIATED PRESS
Key Facts
Dominion is suing Powell for spreading a baseless conspiracy theory
alleging its voting machines fraudulently flipped votes to Joe Biden.
Wood said on Telegram Friday that Powell called him Thursday night and
asked him to serve as her lead counsel in the case, adding, “I quickly
accepted.”
Powell’s attorney Howard Kleinhendler confirmed to Forbes in an email
that Wood will be joining the legal team.
“Sidney and I will not be intimidated,” Wood wrote, claiming he and
Powell “will not go quietly into the night.”
Wood frequently appeared alongside Powell after the election to push
the Dominion fraud claims and was involved with her lawsuits aimed at
overturning the results of the election.
Dominion has sent a letter to Wood warning it may bring a defamation
lawsuit against him, asked social media networks to preserve his posts
and singled out Wood in its lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani as being
particularly “determined to promote” the conspiracy theory against
them (the company declined to comment on Wood’s involvement in
Powell’s case).
Crucial Quote
“Get ready to rumble, Dominion,” Wood wrote on Telegram. “You made a
mistake suing Sidney. You are going to pay a heavy price.”
What To Watch For
Wood is facing wide-ranging consequences for spreading conspiracy
theories since the election, which included outlandish claims
involving former Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts. He has been removed from an unrelated
Delaware case over his conduct, and attorneys for MSNBC host Joy Reid
have asked him to be removed as attorney in a separate defamation
case. The Georgia State Bar has also confirmed it is moving forward
with an inquiry into Wood’s mental health in light of his
post-election behavior, which could result in his license to practice
law potentially being revoked.
Tangent
Wood’s defense of Powell comes after he recently tried to distance
himself from her post-election lawsuits in Wisconsin, Michigan and
Arizona in a court filing in the defamation case against Reid. After
the MSNBC host’s attorney pointed to Wood’s appearance with Powell as
co-counsel in the suits as a reason for him to be removed from her
case, he noted that he was “not counsel of record” in those cases and
did not try to seek privileges to argue the case in court. He did
acknowledge having a larger involvement in Powell’s Georgia lawsuit.
Key Background
Dominion has launched a large-scale legal effort to seek damages for
the right-wing conspiracy smears it has faced, suing Powell and
Giuliani and vowing subsequent lawsuits that could potentially target
conservative media outlets, Trump allies and potentially even former
President Donald Trump himself. Powell has also been sued by Dominion
competitor Smartmatic over similar claims waged against that company’s
machines, in a $2.7 billion lawsuit that also targets Giuliani, Fox
News and several of its anchors.
Further Reading
Pro-Trump Attorney Lin Wood Could Lose License As Georgia Bar Asks For
Mental Health Evaluation (Forbes)
Dominion Had To Use ‘Extraordinary Measures’ To Serve Sidney Powell In
Defamation Lawsuit (Forbes)
Dominion Voting Sues Sidney Powell For Defamation Over Election
Conspiracy—And Others May Be Next (Forbes)
Fox News, Sidney Powell, Giuliani Face Billion-Dollar Defamation
Lawsuits—Here’s Who Could Be Next (Forbes)
Voting Company Smartmatic Sues Fox News, Giuliani, Sidney Powell For
Defamation (Forbes)
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