Preston Manning Centre Grabs the Sleaze, not the Steak

Preston Manning Centre Taking Money from Ultimate Sleazebag Cal Wenzel, as Revealed on Tape

 http://globalnews.ca/news/505627/exclusive-watch-the-entire-18-minute-secretly-taped-video-of-cal-wenzel-talking-to-a-meeting-of-developers/

Cal Wenzel of Shane Homes, Sleaziest Man in Calgary, dilates on friends and enemies at the Preston Manning Centre (cover, $100, 000.  Now that, in Ernest, is some _grass roots_ we be talkin’.)

Most people understand that Preston and his pals like Cal are sleazebags willing to circumvent any election or democracy law in order to get their ways, so it’s no big deal anyway, is it?

 No, I guess it isn’t; if it weren’t, Preston probably wouldn’t be so plummy and chummy about the way he gaily defaces Canadians who abide by laws he feels he is above.  He learned it from his father, I guess is the only way you can charitably interpret his actions. 

But you’ve got to really, really love Cal going over each councillor in Calgary and getting the Vegas response from the lacquered just-for-men sleazeballs in the house.

 

Here’s Cal on one of his favourites, a hurtin’ gal he can doggone manipulate six ways to Sunday:

Uh, Diane Colley-Urquhart,

Uh, y’know, uh,
unfortunately, she just lost her husband here,
a couple-three months ago
But we did go down and talk to her
Because,
the last couple years,
she just hasn’t been totally there
or totally on side
uh, y’know, and her explanation was,
unfortunately with her husband being as sick as he was, uh,
most of the time,
she didn’t have time to really pay attention,
uh, but, she’s assured us now that she will and so
y’know a Diane Colley-Urquhart that’s really prepared to work
is a good person for us I believe.

(ain’t she a trooper)

. . .and Peter Demong has done a really good job for us to this point.

(lord love a cheap date)

Preston, of course, according to sources and loving glances (lawyers, anyone?) was in the room, delighting in this foul language that you’d never find on my page.  But Preston, that’s just how Preston rolls.  No morals that can’t be compromised in the craven hunt for cash.  The sleaze just keeps comin’ for Preston.

The state of Canadian cities (this will have passed Preston by in reality, if not in federal Tory gerrymandering tactics) ought to concern every Canadian, for, more and more over the decades, and as more and more people have moved to urban locales, cities have become the engines of our economic growth.  People on other continents figured this out long ago, and they would be perplexed if they saw us weighting votes 10 to 1 rural vs. urban.  We just haven’t grown up, and our “action plan” has to envision dynamic cities with solid and stable infrastructures.

Sleazebag Cal of Shane homes, on the other hand, wants to make sure there are no sustainable cities.  His plan is that everyone can live in the country while living in the city.  Hey, it’s made him rich--made Preston rich, too.  Harper and Flaherty sure don’t want to see Canada’s cities profit and succeed—Flaherty, the Canadian-hater, even went to Washington to tell Americans what a useless place Ontario was (as compared to, say, Michigan).

Anyway, let’s go back to the hi-lite reel from Cal Wenzel, of Shane Homes, one of Preston Manning’s greatest benefactors.  What Cal, who, along with 10 of his best men, did, was pony up 100 grand for Preston’s (well, Preston, maybe you tell us just what it is).  Anyway, Cal came with the cash, and he wanted to make sure that he got some civic control, too (ain’t no grass roots like holdin’ ‘em grass roots by the roots, eh?’”)

Here’s Cal of Shane Homes, who insists that he is sometimes taken out of context (er, which con, or text, or context, or whatever, would that be, Cal?) on Dale Hodges:

Dale is 72 years old,

not too good a health,
and the rumour mill has it
he will not run again

--it’s a pretty classy thing to do, reflect on the health of others at a public gathering at the Preston Manning Centre, but, hey, it’s what you learned, I guess.  Preston Manning must have been abashed at the sheer classiness of it all.

Or take these bons mots about a city planner (Cal feigns astonishment): “she’s a relatively proper girl, an’ she sez he’s a fuckin’ idiot”  I would have been fired in the 80s for this, but Cal, well, Cal, he’s just that kinda guy, and the silveradoed gents who build your condos made this one go off like rockets!!  Preston Manning’s eyes glimmered at this rousing display of. . . !  Well, Preston’s obviously got a reckoning that includes only him, no thought of Him.

Or take John Mar, from a developer dynasty; cheeky Cal (who definitely bought in against the alternative) offered:

John Mar,

Uh, talking with a lot of you people in this room,
he’s a little bit wishy-washy, uh,
y’know, we’re never sure if he’s in the, uh, grey,
or, uh, in the purple, or just where he’s at,
so I ain’t not sure of that one there.

--well, that’s Preston.  He always did enjoy a purple joke.

If Christ were here, he would have said “un-believable.”

But hey, we’re only getting started!!

Here’s Cal on a guy he can really, really buy; I mean, this is a really, really Preston Manning Centre donation kind of guy:

Ray Jones, again,

my only concern,
is Ray is so sick and tired
of being lied to by administration
that he may decide not to run.
Now, I talked to him,
Jay’s talked to him
I think that’s just outta frustration
one p’ticular week
or at least I hope so
but he was pretty ticked the last time I talked to him, uh,
but I think we can kinda count on Ray to run

(and if, Cal, just for an instance, we couldn’t count on Ray to run, what, based on your speech, would you be prepared to do?)

Here’s classy Cal on Druh Farrell:

Druh Farrell.

In case anyone doesn’t know,
She doesn’t like me,
an’ I don’t p’ticularly like her

(guffaws)

Uh, I had 13 trucks out, uh, last election
delivering signs and assembling them
and I got called by, uh,
Druh and the elections, uh,
because they said I’d given 5 000 in cash,
so therefore my trucks that were out delivering
put me over the 5 000 and they were gonna take us to court
so, obviously, Druh and I don’t see eye-to-eye

(the Preston Manning Centre does not, under any circumstances, accept the rule of law)

So here’s the slate, as on tape, that Cal Wenzel of Shane Homes has said he has personally “looked after” or supported whilst at the Manning Centre; if you support them, then you know exactly what Preston-approved company you’re keeping:

Jim Stevenson 

Ray Jones

John Mar

Andre Chabot

Diane Colley-Urqhuart

Peter Demong

-zr