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:
The present Executive can be found here.- 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)
- Don Gebauer (Calgary)
- John Hilton-O'Brien (Calgary)
- Rosemary Craig (Calgary)
- Faye Engler (St. Albert)
- Phil Gamache (Edmonton)
- Daniel Johnson (Edmonton)
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)
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Gordon Stamp, vice-president policy (Edmonton) -
Don Weisback [sic], vice-president communications (Brooks) - Eleanor Maroes, treasurer (Edmonton)
- Marilyn Burns, secretary (Edmonton)
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Don Gebauer (Calgary) - John Hilton-O'Brien (Calgary)
- Rosemary Craig (Calgary)
- 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:
You can see how it looked earlier this morning at the following places:
- Google cache of the page (usually good for 60 days or so)
- Screen capture hosted on Imageshack
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.
