Gary Mar resigned today from his position as Alberta’s Representative in Washington DC, fuelling the speculation that the former cabinet minister will soon join the Progressive Conservative leadership contest.
Some of the more recent rumours predicting Mr. Mar’s entry into the leadership contest were based around a late February meeting of supporters, including Klein-era political operator Rod Love.
More concrete proof of Mr. Mar’s candidacy landed in my email inbox this afternoon when a reader emailed me a screenshot of a Secret Group on Facebook, named “Gary Mar’s Peeps.” It appears as though this secret Facebook gathering place for Mr. Mar’s supporters has been up and running for the past month. Its content includes links to news stories, blog posts, and questions from group members ranging from where to send campaign donations to how to respond to chatter on Twitter.
The 87 members of the invite-only Facebook group are an interesting camp of PC Party members. Some of the notable names in the members list include Jim Dinning‘s 2006 campaign chairman Brent Shervey, Calgary-Nose Hill MLA Neil Brown, Drayton Valley-Calmar MLA Diana McQueen, Edmonton-Rutherford MLA Fred Horne, former PC Youth President Courtney Luimes (who is currently the Executive Assistant to Energy Minister Ron Liepert), Airdrie-Chestermere PC Association President Janice Harrington, co-chair of the PC Party’s 2008 election platform committee Brenda Barootes, and pollster Janet Brown.
A person’s membership in a Facebook may not necessary translate into an official endorsement, but the exclusivity of this invite-only secret group may suggest that its members have a higher level of commitment towards Mr. Mar than if it were a regular public Facebook Group.
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This is awesome! I sure hope that this group amounts to system I would love to see Gary run. In my opinion he is the only one that can clean up the mess that the other contenders in the PC Leadership race have created. Gary has got my vote!
Gary I want to be part of this group. Come back to Alberta and run for Premier!
I want to be a part of this group too! I wanted to see him run in the last leadership race for the PCs, so I hope he does this time!
Gary be part of da posse dat “got down” an created the 411 we all in. Please peeps, don’t be a bunch’o bluebirds. Break out dis bad boy befoe he go all bobo keys on us. You all be cupcaking wit dis skipskap cause he all dipped in butta sauce. Keep yo cabbage and don’t go gittin all off da rim on dis.
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If he wins Danielle will make quick time of him.
He will get support of the hefty folk… Maybe he will recycle Steve Carter to be his campaign manager by giving $X+1
or promising to talk about him
Any help you want Gary its yours, by the way its about time
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