Re: Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi named new leader of Alberta NDP in resounding vote — June 22

What do you call a situation where a person joins a political party in March, and a little more than three months later wins the party leadership race by a three-quarters majority? A takeover?

Yes, it is a takeover — there is no other way to describe what happened to the old New Democratic Party of Alberta. Welcome to the new Nenshi Democratic Party of Alberta. The best the old-guard Alberta NDPers, like Kathleen Ganley, could do in this leadership race was fewer than 6,000 votes, compared with Nenshi’s astounding 62,746 votes. This clearly speaks of Nenshi’s savvy and what he is capable of.