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I am proud to support Dave Hancock. I have never met someone so passionately dedicated to making Alberta a better place to live, and Dave realizes that the best way to make Alberta better is through its people. There is no better investment. Dave offers vision and leadership in a political world filled with sound bytes over a solid plan. Dave's Alberta is one that is diverse, progressive and prosperous, with great people, where people have taken care of their environment, invested their prosperity well and everybody participates in democracy.

As President of the Edmonton-Meadowlark PC Association, I am looking for someone who is able to win the next election, and win it in Edmonton as well as in rural Alberta and in Calgary. A revitalized party that is prepared to win a mandate in the next election should be the goal of our new leader, and as past President of the PC party Dave has already shown his commitment to accomplishing just that. We can present a plan that appeals to Albertans in all corners of the province, including here in the capital region.

As an advocate for education, I want a Premier who gets it - who understands that education is the key to our future and making sure Alberta becomes the place to do business. In the post-petroleum world Alberta will need something else to offer the world, and a resource economy is not going to be it. If we are going to continue to be prosperous, we are going to have to be smart and innovative, offering new knowledge and the most educated workforce in the world.

But perhaps most importantly, as a conservative, I want someone who will use our resources wisely, investing prudently, and gets past the pathetic debate between just spending money on our problems or being so stingy that they ignore the need for investment. In the grand scheme of things, our petroleum-fuelled prosperity is fleeting, and I want someone who will leverage that to create an ideal economy and society for our children and grandchildren. Dave's passion for ensuring our resource revenue is used in the right ways - in endowments and in capital infrastructure for generations is what drew me to his team.

[The on-again, off-again blog covering the PC leadership race, Renewing the One Party State, asked bloggers who are supporting a candidate to blog about why - if you have an opinion on where Alberta should go and who should help lead it, blog about it and let the people running the blog know.]

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