Thursday, August 30, 2007

Wildrose Party Executive loses three

While reviewing the Wildrose Party website for some sign as to where they are at with their registration petition, I couldn't help but notice that Gordon Stamp, Don Weisbeck, and Don Gebauer are no longer listed as being on the Executive. According to a Wildrose Party media release dated June 26, 2007, the roster of the original Executive Committee read as follows:

Officers:
  • Rob James, president (Calgary)
  • Link Byfield, executive director (Morinville)
  • Sharon Maclise, vice-president membership (Edmonton)
  • Gordon Lang, vice-president fundraising (Calgary)
  • Gordon Stamp, vice-president policy (Edmonton)
  • Don Weisback [sic], vice-president communications (Brooks)
  • Eleanor Maroes, treasurer (Edmonton)
  • Marilyn Burns, secretary (Edmonton)
Southern Directors:
  • Don Gebauer (Calgary)
  • John Hilton-O'Brien (Calgary)
  • Rosemary Craig (Calgary)
Northern Directors:
  • Faye Engler (St. Albert)
  • Phil Gamache (Edmonton)
  • Daniel Johnson (Edmonton)
The present Executive can be found here.

I can find no explanation on the website as to why over 20% of the executive is gone in such a short time frame, and why no replacements have been named.

The current list:

Officers:
  • Rob James, president (Calgary)
  • Link Byfield, executive director (Morinville)
  • Sharon Maclise, vice-president membership (Edmonton)
  • Gordon Lang, vice-president fundraising (Calgary)
  • Gordon Stamp, vice-president policy (Edmonton)
  • Don Weisback [sic], vice-president communications (Brooks)
  • Eleanor Maroes, treasurer (Edmonton)
  • Marilyn Burns, secretary (Edmonton)
Southern Directors:
  • Don Gebauer (Calgary)
  • John Hilton-O'Brien (Calgary)
  • Rosemary Craig (Calgary)
Northern Directors:
  • Faye Engler (St. Albert)
  • Phil Gamache (Edmonton)
  • Daniel Johnson (Edmonton)

Update 08/30/2007: It appears that the Wildrosers have moved the listing of their shrinking Executive to a secure part of the website where it is not viewable by the public:

Wildrose Party Executive

You can see how it looked earlier this morning at the following places:


Update 09/01/2007: Apparently you can still view the executive list if you are not referred to the Wildrose Party site from this blog. I guess they set up a referral block (or an IP block), just for me.

This of course proves that the Wildrosers are reading this site. Cool.