Braid: Trump win tells UCP hard-liners they're on the right track
'You can't just be agitating all the time. You can't stay in power if you're constantly in chaos,' said Cynthia Moore
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Leave the United Conservative Party. Take your single-issue passions elsewhere. Stop the chaos that has roiled the Alberta party since it was formed in 2017.
That’s the message to UCP members from Cynthia Moore, the immediate past president of the party board.
“Some people need to leave,” Moore said in an interview after this month’s huge convention in Red Deer.
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The delegates gave Premier Danielle Smith 91.5 per cent approval, but also passed many motions that go beyond her government’s policies.
“If they can’t get on board with a more moderate agenda, on governing for the whole province, they should go,” Moore says. “You can’t just be agitating all the time. You can’t stay in power if you’re constantly in chaos.”
Moore sees the leadership vote as proof........
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