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EDMONTON — David Parker is a shadowy figure hiding in plain sight in Alberta’s political scene, now roiling in a May 29 election campaign deemed too close to call.
His stump speech is both self-aggrandizing and self-effacing, chronicling two decades of success and failure in the political ground game for conservative politicians – former prime minister Stephen Harper, former federal Conservative leader Erin O'Toole and former Alberta premier Jason Kenney. Parker created Take Back Alberta and helped deliver party member votes that resulted in an anemic 51 per cent support for Kenney in a party leadership review last May. Kenney saw the writing on the wall and quit.
“ can remove the party membership of any member with a majority vote — including a leader,” Parker tells the Grande Prairie crowd. “They determine nominations, they determine disputes.
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