Redford or PC campaign manager was untruthful about idiotic Tweeting staffer

In all the media brouhaha over the staffer working in PC Alberta premier Alison Redford’s office, they all missed the most important aspect of the story.

Focusing on the inappropriateness of a single Tweet by this staffer, the media looked past that a government worker (supposedly non-partisan) was sending out a massive amount of partisan Tweets besides the one that created the big fire-storm.

First, I pointed out to the journos working on this story who were quoting Redford saying that Amanda Wilkie was a campaign volunteer, directly contradicted the PC’s campaign manager:

Stephen Carter – Wilkie had “no role in the campaign whatsoever” (see here)

Then when things like this were being written:

Wilkie was a volunteer on the Progressive Conservative election campaign team and an executive assistant in the Premier’s Calgary office. She has resigned. (see here)

I offered the rule to the media that one cannot be a paid political staffer and a volunteer campaign worker at the same time. A government-paid job in a MLA or premier’s office and volunteer campaign worker are two roles that are in complete contradiction to each other.

After hours of back-and-forth messages to multiple journos (including some snarky replies) I finally got one to interview Carter and admit that either Carter or Redford was not telling the truth but said that Wilkie was “Tweeting on her own time”.

Not that that would excuse Wilkie from doing it as my point above proves but you be the judge on whether you think Wilkie only did these Tweets during non-working hours as for days she was sending out nasty ones like:

– Wildrose supporters are “ignorant rednecks” 

– “Bipolar Tories”

– “ethics & integrity aren’t part of @ElectDanielle character”  (see here)

And not a word was said by anyone in the media or the PC Party