Not to be outdone by the federal wastrels the Alberta NDP are seemingly buying coffee for everyone.
The NDP MLA for Red Deer-South has a serious caffeine addiction. Barb Miller spent $4,868.50 on coffee pods in one quarter alone. Three months! It was right there in her online expense filings for anyone to find.
Let her buy beans!!
Hell she probably spend more on beans! Why not just open a Starbucks in her office?
Check her cupboards at home. Coffee for life after she gets the boot.
Other People’s Money!!!
Everybody who lives in Alberta need only think of the losers in their towns and areas who are NDPee, these people have accomplished nothing, employ no one, usually live on govt. assistance or work for a union, malcontents misfits miscreants and fatties, aka they are the most useless of society, not an entrapenuer amoungst these effing NDPee losers. Here is more proof kiddies, heres the “change” you all wanted, well suck it up buttercups.
She needs an excuse of why she can’t sleep at night. Less than 1000 days now .skid their rig
How dare you?
No, it isn’t the change we all wanted. Yes, the upside is that the Progressives that retards like you voted for are finished, but they were going in exactly the same direction as the NDP.
You’re just too stupid, self-centered, and dishonest to admit it.
Honest people who saw Stelmach squander a debt-free economy and put it into $10’s of billions in debt to corruptly buy the Union vote recognized the need for change.
It was you who wanted this corrupt situation, except under Progressive management.
We all know you voted for Alison Redford and again for Jim Prentice.
Was Alison Redford any different than Barb Miller?
NO. Red Ali wasn’t different, not at all.
Hit a nerve Oz, are you enraged? Do you work for the media? While I disagreed with Ed’s royalty changes I was intelligent enough, unlike you, to understand that a PROVINCE, hear that, province, that had no debt, in a country of PROVINCES, of which 2 alone owe over 590 billion dollars, would be soon raided monetarily by the feds for bailout money for Ontariowe. So why not build hospitals and interchanges etc. I know that concept is deep for your ilk, but try do try to understand moron. Funny how such a stupid self centered retard like me, could get anywhere without guidance from the likes of a loser like you Oz
The Rebel is BSing you (which shouldn’t come as a surprise, and is why I cancelled my subscription).
The Rebel is deliberately conflating a couple of receipts showing individual purchases of coffee pods amounting to about $100 in Q32016 with a major corporate contract with Grand & Toy, the receipt for which only appears in Q42016. That strongly suggests that that $4868 for coffee is either for the entire year, not just Q4, or else the Red Deer South office is sharing pods with a number of other MLA offices but they’re being billed out of Red Deer South.
There’s no there, there. It probably bears asking how they’re setting up their corporate contracts with Grand & Toy since they seem to be paying rather a lot for pods (~$2/pod, roughly).
Too bad you can’t cancel your subscription to the CBC.
Barton’s, you’ve given me a new understanding of Alberta politics. The Progressives were so smart to foresee their province was going to be taken over by the money grabbing NDP that they pre-emptively trashed the economy and took what they could for themselves.
You’re also right that it’s just too deep for my ilk to consider voting for a party like that.
Would have thought the NDP would be happy with instant coffee. Oh wait, since you’re paying, make that a pod!
Would have thought the NDP would be happy with instant coffee. Oh wait, since you’re paying, make that a pod!
Maybe she had donuts with her coffee.
Walter – Alberta is essentially a one party state. The path to power was with the PC party, not because they were the progressive or conservative party, but because their brand was selected as the leaders. This had previously happened with the Socreds.
What happened to the Socreds? They lost their way after too many people that didn’t agree with the ideology that had put (and maintained) them in power joined the party to get power. The internal rot got too large, the party collapsed.
We are at the point of PC collapse. My former riding of Yellowhead featured a union leader who wanted to go into politics. He ran for, and won, the local PC nomination, and went on to become government whip.
In nature, when something gets too big then it starts to weaken and eventually dies to make room for something else. Beware the wounded, elderly alpha, it can do a lot of damage before it’s taken down. And in the short term the carrion eaters do very well for themselves, regardless of whether the good times will last.
But but but aren’t those coffee pods bad for the environment? My environmentalist cousin keeps telling me how my one cup of Tasiamo a day is going to cause the world to tip over because those pods last forever in the landfill. No doubt my cousin will stop supporting the NDP after this scandal …… or not.
Built hospitals and interchanges? Lies.
That’s not what the Progressives did with the money.
They grew the government and used the $8 billion(that’s 8 thousand million) annual surplus they were getting to buy the Public Union vote as a block.
C_Miner;
Just an excellent summation of what happens in the real world of politics.
I saw this process happen in the Reform movement. As soon as the Party started to elect MP’s and became the visible alternative in western Canada instead of the PC Party political carpetbaggers moved in. The Manning vote to move into eastern Canada simply accelerated that process.
The contrast between the original grassroots and what the conservative movement became was stark to say the least. The CPC today, continues to mine the vestiges of that support but ultimately it will dry up. Another movement, smarter, will eventually unite the West. It was comical to see the story the other day about Alberta sending, a net, over $200 billion to Ottawa in the past decade. Every Westerner should be well versed in the cost of being the east’s milk cow. The Liebels are well on their way to ‘fixing’ things so that $ pipeline is never disrupted again.
C_Miner;
Just an excellent summation of what happens in the real world of politics.
I saw this process happen in the Reform movement. As soon as the Party started to elect MP’s and became the visible alternative in western Canada instead of the PC Party political carpetbaggers moved in. The Manning vote to move into eastern Canada simply accelerated that process.
The contrast between the original grassroots and what the conservative movement became was stark to say the least. The CPC today, continues to mine the vestiges of that support but ultimately it will dry up. Another movement, smarter, will eventually unite the West. It was comical to see the story the other day about Alberta sending, a net, over $200 billion to Ottawa in the past decade. Every Westerner should be well versed in the cost of being the east’s milk cow. The Liebels are well on their way to ‘fixing’ things so that $ pipeline is never disrupted again.
“Maybe she had donuts with her coffee.”
No – that’s Hoffman.
I don’t think she’s the only one.
Jeebers! That’s a serious quantity of coffee!
Even if she was buying the spendy stuff, I doubt that it was more than $1 per pod. That works out to something like 50 cups per day!
77 cups of coffee a day, (decent Folgers 70cents/cup at Walmart in 18s), what’s the big deal? What is she running, a shooting gallery for coffee addicts?
What are they doing, freebasing the stuff? How do they get any work done with coffee and washroom breaks? Maybe that’s a good thing?
No, B she is not the only one, but how many does there have to be? One MLA, three staffers, one or two visitors drinking coffee all day long.
Ten cups of coffee each? Could some party staffers have dropped by 90 times per quarter? Is there a “satellite office” somewhere?
It’s not easy these days in Alberta to find some “rich” person to pay for the new Alberta, though soon to be the new old Alberta.
Maybe they’re like the assistant head of the department I used to teach in.
That man retired on the job. It wasn’t unusual for him to dump his work on subordinates and then spend his time sitting around in someone’s office shooting the breeze for an hour or two. And, yes, he spent much of that drinking coffee.
I’m sure the same thing happened in other departments as well.