Just Come Clean’: NDP Attack Ad on Kenney

Edmonton (ATB):The animated ad shows Kenney in a locker room, clad in a jersey while a coach talks him through how to execute a $700-million tax cut. It even has its own website.
“OK Jason, you’re new here, that’s good for us. People don’t know the real you &let’s keep it that way,” the coach says.
The ad harkens back to the same line the government hammered in the provincial legislature during the spring session that reverting to a flat tax, as Kenney has proposed, would mean cuts to education and health care.
Like any political attack ad, it’s about as subtle as an anvil.
Although it’s paid for by the party, not the taxpayer, the NDP put up deputy premier Sarah Hoffman to explain why New Democrats are investing in an attack ad a year before the next provincial election.
“He hasn’t lived here in a very long time; now he’s back in Alberta and we want to make sure Albertans know what his values appear to be and make it clear they don’t align with everyday families,” Hoffman told Postmedia.
“He’s said nothing about what he stands for, so if he won’t, then we will.”
In an email, Kenney called the NDP “desperate.”
He said he expects the party to “increasingly resort to scare tactics over the next 11 months” and accused it of lying about the carbon tax to get elected.
“Fortunately, Albertans are smarter than the ‘NDP Anger Machine’ give them credit for,” he wrote.
As for whether Albertans can indeed expect similar ads down the road as the election approaches, Hoffman said, “Stay tuned.”
“‘Just come clean,’ is my message to Jason Kenney,” she said.
“You’ve been away a long time, but you’re back in Alberta now, and it’s time for you to show Albertans what your values are.”
Anger, divisiveness and polarization has plagued the Alberta politics and let us see how it shapes in coming 11 months.