{"id":21747,"date":"2018-09-27T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21747"},"modified":"2018-09-27T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:43:00","slug":"alleslevs-arguments-dont-sway-readers-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/alleslevs-arguments-dont-sway-readers-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleslev\u2019s arguments don\u2019t sway reader\u2019s opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your article presenting Ms. Alleslev\u2019s motives and view relative to her changing political party affiliation this week.<br \/>\nWhile I respect that she presents her views candidly, ultimately she does not sway my opinion.<br \/>\nGovernments would not operate with any functionality if representatives did not form alliances. Imagine being governed by hundreds of independents whose only allegiance is to their own constituents?<br \/>\nI\u2019m not buying her \u201csacred obligation\u201d to her electors argument.<br \/>\nChanging allegiances \u2013 based on her principles as expressed in your article \u2013 belies her obligation to the party under whose banner she chose to run and was elected.<br \/>\nNo party in Canadian history has likely fulfilled their mandate without some meandering and even abrupt turns. Change happens. Collaboration, respectful dialogue, commitment to a common goal: these principles of teamwork also matter.<br \/>\nI have no argument against her decision to leave the Liberals, should she have continued to represent as an independent.<br \/>\nHowever, I wonder if she pondered her chances of re-election as an independent vs. having an established political party machine behind her?<br \/>\nMs. Alleslev expresses that she is satisfied that she is \u201caligned\u201d with the policies and priorities of the Conservative party. Hmmm. That sentiment sounds familiar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alison Badali<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F21747&#038;t=Alleslev%E2%80%99s%20arguments%20don%E2%80%99t%20sway%20reader%E2%80%99s%20opinion&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F21747&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Alleslev%E2%80%99s%20arguments%20don%E2%80%99t%20sway%20reader%E2%80%99s%20opinion\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F21747&#038;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Alleslev%E2%80%99s%20arguments%20don%E2%80%99t%20sway%20reader%E2%80%99s%20opinion&#038;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F21747\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your article presenting Ms. Alleslev\u2019s motives and view relative to her changing political party affiliation this week. While I respect that she presents her views candidly, ultimately she does not sway my opinion. Governments would not operate with any functionality if representatives did not form alliances. Imagine being governed by hundreds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5EL","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 14:20:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}