Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992
PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.
Mr. Lukaszuk turned on Ms. Redford when her star was falling and ran in
PC leadership contest as an outsider.
Both Minister Morton and Minister Lukaszuk supported Mr. Mar on the final ballot of
the PC leadership contest.
He became one of Mr. Prentice's campaign co-chairs during his party's 2014
PC leadership contest and was rewarded with an appointment as Minister of Infrastructure, a position he held until the 2015 re-election.
Former cabinet minister Gary Mar entered
the PC leadership contest with a slick campaign speech, his own Twitter hashtag — #GOGARY, and an endorsement from cabinet minister Iris Evans.
Not exact matches
Mr. Adatia was the Chief Financial Officer for Premier Alison Redford «s
leadership campaign in 2011, and he was an unsuccessful candidate in the hotly
contested PC nomination in Calgary - Hawkwood earlier this year.
It is hard to see Mr. Prentice's term - limit pledge as anything but an attempt to distract Albertans from lacklustre
leadership contest and the ongoing government spending and airplane scandals (and the
PC government's unwillingness to take responsibility for its actions).
After winning
leadership of Alberta's
PC Party, Kenney would run in a second
leadership contest in a newly formed party