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Elections Alberta confirmed there’s nothing preventing constituency associations from transferring money to a registered third party, as long as the transfer doesn’t violate new collusion provisions.

The PAC pickle

The Alberta Fund spent $30,114 on advertising last year, according to documents lodged with Elections Alberta.

But its chief financial officer, David Yager, told Postmedia the election finance rule changes dashed its hopes to become a fully fledged PAC.

He said the Alberta Fund has no spending plans for the 2019 provincial election. He also wants to return money, but in a classic Catch-22, he — like every other Albertan — is limited to a total of $4,000 in party or candidate donations.

“I can’t do anything with it,” he said.

Yager said some money has been donated to charity, but he’s scratching his head about what to do with the rest.

The Alberta Fund reported it had about $8,800 left as of Dec. 31, 2017.

Transfer tiff

The Airdrie Wildrose constituency association remains registered, but recorded zero revenues in its most recent fiscal report as it works to wind down after the Wildrose-Progressive Conservative merger and boost the local UCP board.

Rick Northey resigned from that UCP board Monday via a strongly worded email sent to fellow board members.

He told Postmedia on Wednesday he was unhappy with what he saw as a secretive cash transfer, and accused Pitt of “outright intimidation” in trying to get him to stop asking questions about it.

Pitt dismissed his claim, attributing his resignation to the fact he is managing the campaign for Roger Millions, who is running against Pitt for the Airdrie-East nomination.

The nomination meeting is scheduled for June 20.

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