Braid: Kenney's trouble with his candidates maybe at danger point
That was the dramatic point in the 2012 election campaign when Wildrose started slipping after a candidate said gays would forever suffer in a literal lake of fire.
Mark Smith equated homosexuality with pedophilia. Relations between same-sex couples can’t really be love, he suggested. Kenney does not disown Smith as a party candidate. Under the rules, it’s too late to replace him, and taking him off the ticket could cost the UCP a sure rural seat. “I don’t believe people should be condemned for life for something they said in the past,” Kenney said.At one point Adler said to Kenney, a personal friend for years, “Knock knock. What did you do with my friend?”
Wildrose was well ahead in polls at the start of the campaign against Premier Alison Redford’s ruling PCs. During the uproar that followed, Smith had an option — to keep or renounce them as candidates. Against some party advice, she decided they’d stay.
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