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It’s getting harder to tell if the effort to merge Alberta’s conservative parties is a soap opera, a crime drama, or a bad sitcom.

Or, more probably, it’s just another example of how Alberta conservatives will tear each other apart because they think people will elect them as a united party, even though it’s obvious they’re more divided than ever.

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This time the conspiracy theorists are running wild over news that a Wildrose Party office in Edmonton was burglarized and laptop computers stolen.

Kenney’s camp is alleged by Wildrose, indirectly, to be the instigator in its insatiable hunt for data to sign up supporters.

Kenney calls that “a paranoid fantasy . . . all it gives us is a hearty laugh, a belly laugh . . . it should be beyond any person in politics to engage in paranoid conspiracy theories.”

He flatly denies that his campaign or anyone in it was involved.

Kenney also suggests he doesn’t need to steal anybody’s list, even if he wanted to, because “when I entered this I already had a database of 60,000 people who have contacted me over 20 years as a Member of Parliament.”