An email to the Wildrose Party

The silence has been deafening since the email scandal became public back on August 21, so I just fired off a quick note to the Wildrose Party asking for a response to Randy Thorsteinson's allegations:

The Watcher (wildrosereport@gmail.com)

Possible breach of confidentiality through usage of Alberta Alliance membership list

The Watcher (wildrosereport@gmail.com) Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:21 AM

To: The Wildrose Party of Alberta (info@wildroseparty.ca)

I am the blogger who writes The Wildrose Report. I would like to draw your attention to my August 22nd post entitled Scandal engulfs the Wildrose Party. You will note in that post that I have reproduced an email sent by Randy Thorsteinson to the membership of the Alberta Alliance on August 21, 2007. In that email, he is quoted as follows:

I have been inundated with messages from outraged members of the Alberta Alliance over an e-mail that they received from Eleanor Maroes, Marilyn Burns and Phil Gamache earlier today. I would like to state categorically that all three of them left the Alberta Alliance Party several months ago to join a rival political party. Their e-mail was unauthorized and done totally without our knowledge. In fact, they deliberately tried to hide their actions from the Alberta Alliance. Additionally, they purposefully hid their current roles on the rival political party Executive as Treasurer, Secretary and Northern Director.

I apologize that they sent you the e-mail, rest assured they did not get your e-mail address from the Alberta Alliance Party but rather from former candidates. It appears the rival party has been given your e-mail address from either Marilyn Burns or Eleanor Maroes. Each received a confidential Alliance membership list during the Alliance leadership election in 2005. Both Marilyn Burns and Eleanor Maroes were given a membership list under strict conditions of confidentiality and by divulging this list they broke their personal word to respect the confidential nature of the list. You have a right to your privacy and I am absolutely sick that these three people have betrayed that right. Unfortunately I don't know what other information they have shared with the rival party.

As you can see, there is a specific allegation from Mr. Thorsteinson that one or more members of the Wildrose Party executive has improperly breached a confidence with respect to an Alberta Alliance membership list that they obtained while members of the Alberta Alliance back in 2005.

I have yet to read any comment from the Wildrose Party on this very serious allegation. Can you please advise when, if ever, the Wildrose Party plans on issuing a response to Mr. Thorsteinson's allegations (which have been in the public domain for 5 days now).

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Regards,

The Watcher

I will post any response that I receive.