Premier-designate Danielle Smith announces intent to run in Brooks-Medicine Hat riding
MEDICINE HAT, AB – Premier-designate and UCP Leader Danielle Smith held a media conference at Jeffries park overlooking the city to announce her intent to run in a by-election in Brooks-Medicine Hat.
Smith has her reasons for wanting to run in a rural riding saying, “I know that our rural ridings didn’t feel like they had the strongest voice at the table during the last years of the COVID pandemic, and I hope this sends a signal not only to the residents of Brooks-Medicine Hat but to the residents of all rural Alberta that their voice will be heard.”
Following her announcement Smith was quick to reassure the people who question her not living in the riding herself saying “I want to make sure that people know that I intend to spend a lot of time down here in the riding.”
“I think people will have seen from when I was leader before as well as the kind of campaign I have run I am prepared to travel a lot, and be in communities a lot” she said. “I know because I have that work ethic people will be able to have full access to me.”