George Read, Alberta Greens, responds to leaders debate 1/2

[leppy111]

why is your website down? if you want to make an impact your site must be up in between elections.

You cannot garner support by campaigning for 2 weeks b4 the elections and 2 weeks after. Wildrose is the only other option being touted.

[GrantNeufeld]

It is no longer our website. In what some consider to be a hostile takeover, control of the party was taken by a different group of people who then shut the party down earlier this year.

[leppy111]

WTF, how the hell did that happen - is the party still solvent or have they disbanded it? Who are these people? this province is becoming more fascist by the minute.

[GrantNeufeld]

The formal party has been dissolved. The actual "greens" in this province, however, continue to organize and network in the absence of that legal entity.

In all honesty, there was a weakness in the party constitution that was exploited by those who took it over, along with what I consider to be an inappropriate use of the court system as a weapon targeting key individual members of the old party executive to force them to step aside.

It's a complicated, ugly, mess.

[GrantNeufeld]

YouTube blocks attempts to post web links in comments (even from the video owner) so I'll suggest you do a web search on:

"Grant Neufeld" "Green Party" Alberta AGM 2008

to find some of the background I have posted on what happened.

[pookiethesnazzy]

The dubbing is hilariously awful - it shows carelessness and that takes away from your message. You really need to fix that.

[FringeNorth]

if you look at the version on the green website the audio is in sync, this is just youtube being stupid again

[ThisBoyTV]

One question for you.

Will the Green Party and any of its members continue to censor and sue bloggers on Internet?

[GrantNeufeld]

Can you explain what you are referring to? I am not aware of any instance of the Alberta Greens suing anyone on the net.

[marieread]

My husband's so cute! I love his green suit!