Vulgar politicking spreads in Alberta

The polarization caused by negative campaigning is allowing the creeps to slither out of the woodwork, encouraged by uncivil and at times strictly ideological public dialogue.

On March 11, I saw a large black truck stopped on an overpass over the west Henday with an offensive political decal. It had photos of Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau with a stop sign. It also had two lines of text reading ‘Ditch the …’ and, the second cannot be repeated as it was utterly vulgar. This is not the Alberta I know.

I have voted Conservative, Liberal and NDP depending on what I thought was best for the people. But I do not tolerate deception and hypocrisy, especially when it is intended to achieve a political end. For example, in Keith Gerein’s March 12 column, he called out Jason Kenny for planning to scrap a well-thought-out initiative to centralize medical testing services in Edmonton, knowing that a similar consolidation is working well in Calgary. This is not policy for the people, nor is it rational. Wayne Hansen, Edmonton