With all this talk of civility and political discourse on #ableg, I feel inspired to share!

A few years ago, I lived in the same building as Jason Nixon in Edmonton. One night, I was in the elevator and he entered. He was very drunk. When he noticed me, he must have realized he didn't look very dignified, and said to me, "Uhh... I'M AN NDP MLA."

He didn't realize I had reason to know him: I grew up in the area he represents. A few months before, he wrote a column in the Eckville Echo railing about out-of-province NDP "mercenaries" ruining Alberta. Who did he single out, by name, as an example?
Me.
In my hometown paper.

Gotta say tho, it was pretty sweet getting angry phone calls to my office telling me to go back to Toronto or the United States or whatever, and getting to chirp back with, "SAY HI TO MY DAD DOWN AT THE CO-OP!"