Recall efforts are a ‘nuclear option’ that smack of desperation by NDP
By Lethbridge Herald on December 6, 2025.
Editor,
Did Ryan Tanner (Nov. 26) ever attempt to contact Nathan Neudorf’s constituency office, or visit in person, before filing a recall petition?
I myself made a point of visiting to ask. I was told Ryan Tanner’s name is not recognized. As far as they know, he had not been in touch, and did not try to resolve any issue in person.
Instead, he resorted unawares to a nuclear option that couldn’t possibly have connection with the thirteen other petitions filed that same week.
This manipulation becomes especially odious in the case of Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt. At the end of October, she made a decision to discontinue her in-person town hall meetings. She cited threats, a “hostile atmosphere,” and safety concerns.
Maybe these tough guys weren’t aware of how menacing behavior can affect a woman. Or maybe they were aware: an air of menace could be used as pretext.
Airdrie resident Derek Keenan, a school principle (no ATA connection, of course), filed a recall petition against Pitt because she no longer holds town hall meetings.
Exploiting Pitt’s concerns to punish her. Thinking themselves so clever, they didn’t consider how it actually looks.
That Naheed Nenshi couldn’t refrain from commenting just makes the ploy more obvious: an abuse of process to undo the seat count and simply throw power to the NDP. The Alberta left has become impatient, and they’re not pretty.
Tom Yeoman
Lethbridge
12-11
These recall petitions may be a nuclear option but that’s what is required to get rid of politicians who are destroying our province.
Could it be Tom that these people you find smart to criticize are former Conservative supporters like me and my friends and are fed up with watching these Reformers destroy our children and grandchildren’s future? In true Reform Party Fashion you find it smart to blame it on the NDP that true conservatives want elected. Where is the intelligence in that?
Can you explain to us true Conservatives where these Reformers are going to find the billions of dollars to pay for the oil well cleanup mess, the $89 billlion debt , and the $20 billion deficit and growing that these Reformers have created, because we can’t? Do you care?