A top advisor to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is calling out rival Brian Jean for racism after he pointed out the candidate running against him for the UCP nomination in Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche is Nigerian..“This is really gross,” Brock Harrison, the Executive Director of Communications and Planning for Kenney, tweeted Saturday..He was responding to what appears to be a now-deleted tweet in which Jean writes about the upcoming nomination battle..“Some of you have been asking what this $10 membership thing is all about,” Jean tweeted..“The $10 thing is about getting a UCP membership. In Alberta political parties like the UCP hold an internal election just for UCP members to decide who the UCP candidate will be in an upcoming election or byelection..“There can only be one UCP candidate. Jason’s Kenney’s people don’t want it to be me. They are pushing a Nigerian economist who lives in Fort McMurray.”. Screen-Shot-2021-11-13-at-1.29.21-PMGogo. Courtesy thetop100magazine.com .The rival candidate is Joshua Gogo, who was appointed to the province’s Automobile Insurance Rate Board last year..The Western Standard has reached out to Jean for comment but hasn’t heard back..The message outraged others on Twitter..“Hey @BrianJeanAB, why do you note the fact that your opponent is Nigerian? Seems totally irrelevant and kinda like a racist dog whistle…” tweeted Michael Diamond@mtmdiamond..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
A top advisor to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is calling out rival Brian Jean for racism after he pointed out the candidate running against him for the UCP nomination in Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche is Nigerian..“This is really gross,” Brock Harrison, the Executive Director of Communications and Planning for Kenney, tweeted Saturday..He was responding to what appears to be a now-deleted tweet in which Jean writes about the upcoming nomination battle..“Some of you have been asking what this $10 membership thing is all about,” Jean tweeted..“The $10 thing is about getting a UCP membership. In Alberta political parties like the UCP hold an internal election just for UCP members to decide who the UCP candidate will be in an upcoming election or byelection..“There can only be one UCP candidate. Jason’s Kenney’s people don’t want it to be me. They are pushing a Nigerian economist who lives in Fort McMurray.”. Screen-Shot-2021-11-13-at-1.29.21-PMGogo. Courtesy thetop100magazine.com .The rival candidate is Joshua Gogo, who was appointed to the province’s Automobile Insurance Rate Board last year..The Western Standard has reached out to Jean for comment but hasn’t heard back..The message outraged others on Twitter..“Hey @BrianJeanAB, why do you note the fact that your opponent is Nigerian? Seems totally irrelevant and kinda like a racist dog whistle…” tweeted Michael Diamond@mtmdiamond..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694