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Trudeau’s mayor is out to lunch. We made tough decisions in our Budget but didn’t reduce police grants by one dollar. Unlike his friend in Ottawa, he should get his fiscal house in order. #AbLeg #abpoli https://t.co/3KabEpn8cn — Doug Schweitzer (@doug_schweitzer) October 29, 2019

Well, the city says provincial dough to the cops didn’t go down but the province is taking a bigger share of the cash from traffic tickets and DNA testing will cost $2 million a year.

Nenshi isn’t happy. He says he won’t cover for the Kenney government. He says it will now be a lot harder to hold the line on spending, like that was ever going to happen at the clown show downtown.

The mayor insists the city shouldn’t make cuts to swimming pools in order to send more cash to the cops.

Cutting swimming pools? You mean there’s no place left to trim at the big blue playpen? Don’t answer. The answers are always ass-backwards in the city hall bubble.

Faced with Schweitzer loaded for bear, Nenshi speaks of personal attacks. He knows of what he speaks. He is the master of that game.

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Later, Schweitzer is unrepentant. He is on a roll. He shows the headlines of stories reporting Nenshi willing to help Trudeau. God help us.

Some newshounds are most upset with Schweitzer. Yes, there are still deluded souls who believe Nenshi walks on water. They usually don’t live in Calgary.

Schweitzer is not one of them.

“I’m a Calgarian. I’m tired of my property taxes going up.”

Yep, he’s a Calgarian.

“He wants to be Trudeau’s man in Alberta. I’m sorry. Alberta voted 70% for the Conservative party. They want a strong voice to fight the Trudeau government in Ottawa.”

Yep, he’s a Calgarian.

This is where you really know Schweitzer is a Calgarian.

“Mayor Nenshi needs to get his spending in line. He hasn’t seen a project where he’ll ever say No.”