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2019-03-04

Alberta opposition leader asks people if they're better off under current leader, surprised that they like the person that won the vote more

Leader of the Alberta opposition UCP Jason Kenney tweeted on Friday asking people if they're feeling better off under the current NDP leadership in Alberta or if they were better off 4 years ago under his party, attempting to use the hashtag #BetterOffWithRachel, referencing NDP leader
@RachelNotley, to solidify his point, but missing out the clear grammatical problem with with his hashtag.
Experts have pointed out that Kenney's first mistake was framing his attempt at a poignant hashtag as positive statement about his opponent. "Politicians should rarely use sarcasm, especially in writing," expert David Oyster commented. "It makes it all to easy for people to see things the way the politicians don't want, like with this one, it got people thinking that they are in fact better off with Rachel. He should have tried to make it about him and gone with something like #BetterWithoutRachel, or #BetterBeforeRachel. Of course, knowing how technologically incompetent he is, he's lucky he didn't end up with something way more problematic, like #ThePastWasBetter or #BetterBefore. That would have landed him in a lot of hot water given some of the racist implications of hashtags like that."

It is unknown if Kenney or any other members of the UCP will be seeking potential technology training in an attempt to prevent situations like this from happening again, but experts are skeptical that they would even consider themselves in need of improvement.

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