Liepert not running in next election

Barry N · 07-12-2011, 07:44 PM

Controversial Finance Minister Ron Liepert told the PC caucus today he won’t run in the next election, according to party and government sources.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...097/story.html

bobinedmonton · 07-12-2011, 07:55 PM

Thank God.

knowitall · 07-12-2011, 09:01 PM

Good riddance!!

24karat · 07-12-2011, 09:59 PM

An early Christmas gift to Alberta. Thank heaven.

jagators63 · 07-12-2011, 10:02 PM

I don't worry about this man anyway, if he doesn't want to re-elected , so be it.

PJC · 07-12-2011, 11:38 PM

Mr. Liepert is a volatile combination. Incompetence trumped by arrogance.

That's one less idealogue we'll have to deal with.

North Guy66 · 08-12-2011, 01:37 AM

Everything good happens in threes.

1. Peter Goldring
2. Iris Evans
3. Ron Liepert.

JamesL · 08-12-2011, 09:47 AM

Two down... many more to go.

Paul Turnbull · 08-12-2011, 09:50 AM

So the next question is: What about Morton?

lat · 08-12-2011, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PJC

Mr. Liepert is a volatile combination. Incompetence trumped by arrogance.

That's one less idealogue we'll have to deal with.

+1

Chmilz · 08-12-2011, 10:54 AM

Good to hear. What a tool.

Now, how do we get rid of "say one thing, do another" Redford?

Rocket252 · 08-12-2011, 12:09 PM

Vote her and her party out

edmonton daily photo · 08-12-2011, 12:52 PM

^ Why...

Chmilz · 08-12-2011, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by edmonton daily photo

^ Why...

Part of her platform was to review and/or repeal the land acts that take away rights of citizens, and then immediately rams through a law that takes away rights of citizens, but wasn't in her platform, while still not having made any changes on that original platform promise.

She's a two-faced pile of garbage and has lost my vote, along with the party that voted her in based on those very same promises, and then stood by her as she crapped all over them.

howie · 08-12-2011, 08:24 PM

The next pronouncement will be the one that'll mildly enrage me - not that I'm usually given to any kind of enragement. The pronouncement of Liepert's final denouement to Alberta taxpayers, the huge sums he'll walk away with. Incompetence rewarded. Obscene, no doubt.

Paul Turnbull · 09-12-2011, 11:55 PM

Not just Liepert, also Ken Kowalski and:

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former premier Ed Stelmach, 60, the man who started it all when he announced his intention to resign in November 2010; Iris Evans, who is just days away from her 70th birthday and served as health minister under premier Ralph Klein; Ron Liepert, 62, the bull in Alberta’s political china shop, health minister under Mr. Stelmach and now finance minister; Lloyd Snelgrove, 55, president of Treasury Board under Mr. Stelmach.

Lesser lights include former energy minister Mel Knight, 67; former children’s minister Janis Tarchuk, 56; Richard Marz, 67; Barry McFarland, 63; and Ken Allred, who will be 71 in a couple of weeks. By the time this is posted, this list will probably have grown: at any rate, expect neo-Con grandee Freddy-Lee “Ted” Morton, 62, once the Finance Minister and now the mighty Minister of Energy, and Gene Zwozdesky, 63, another former health minister, to join the list before long.

Premier Alison Redford enforces generational change in Alberta government

Perhaps Redford really is going to manage the housecleaning she promised.

Edmonton PRT · 10-12-2011, 07:12 PM

Proof that the Peter Principle is alive and well in Alberta politics

07-12-2011, 07:44 PM	#1
Barry N Addicted to C2E Join Date: May 2006 Location: Where the sun keeps shining thru the pouring rain.	Liepert not running in next election Controversial Finance Minister Ron Liepert told the PC caucus today he won’t run in the next election, according to party and government sources. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...097/story.html __________________ "Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man that can't get his pants on!"

07-12-2011, 07:55 PM	#2
bobinedmonton Addicted to C2E Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Edmonton, Alberta	Thank God. __________________ BobinEdmonton

07-12-2011, 09:59 PM	#4
24karat Addicted to C2E Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton - Blue Quill	An early Christmas gift to Alberta. Thank heaven. __________________ Fly Edmonton first. Support YEG

07-12-2011, 10:02 PM	#5
jagators63 Addicted to C2E Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Edmonton (belevedre)	I don't worry about this man anyway, if he doesn't want to re-elected , so be it. __________________ Edmonton Rocks Rocks Rocks

08-12-2011, 09:50 AM	#9
Paul Turnbull Addicted to C2E Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Westmount, Edmonton	So the next question is: What about Morton? __________________ twitter.com/chigaze

07-12-2011, 09:01 PM	#3
knowitall Partially Addicted to C2E Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Edmonton	Good riddance!!

07-12-2011, 11:38 PM	#6
PJC Addicted to C2E Join Date: Jul 2008	Mr. Liepert is a volatile combination. Incompetence trumped by arrogance. That's one less idealogue we'll have to deal with.

08-12-2011, 01:37 AM	#7
North Guy66 Addicted to C2E Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bonnie Doon	Everything good happens in threes. 1. Peter Goldring 2. Iris Evans 3. Ron Liepert.

08-12-2011, 09:47 AM	#8
JamesL Addicted to C2E Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: University	Two down... many more to go.

08-12-2011, 10:54 AM	#11
Chmilz Addicted to C2E Join Date: Jan 2009	Good to hear. What a tool. Now, how do we get rid of "say one thing, do another" Redford? __________________ "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" - Blaise Pascal

08-12-2011, 12:09 PM	#12
Rocket252 Addicted to C2E Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta	Vote her and her party out

08-12-2011, 12:52 PM	#13
edmonton daily photo Addicted to C2E Join Date: May 2008	^ Why... __________________ "Do you give people who already use transit a better service, or do you build it where they don't use it in the hopes they might start to use it?" Nenshi

08-12-2011, 08:24 PM	#15
howie Addicted to C2E Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: edmonton	The next pronouncement will be the one that'll mildly enrage me - not that I'm usually given to any kind of enragement. The pronouncement of Liepert's final denouement to Alberta taxpayers, the huge sums he'll walk away with. Incompetence rewarded. Obscene, no doubt. __________________ Nisi Dominus Frustra

10-12-2011, 07:12 PM	#17
Edmonton PRT Addicted to C2E Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta	Proof that the Peter Principle is alive and well in Alberta politics __________________ Advocating a better Edmonton through effective, efficient and economical transit.