Surprise candidate for Premiership intends to nail down local support

Chris Davis, Pincher Creek Voice

Future Premier John Sinnott
Home Sweet Home Party

Crestview Lodge resident John Sinnott has finally confirmed the rumours swirling around the capitol by declaring his bid for the Premiership of Alberta.  Sinnott, the chief architect behind the Home Sweet Home Party, was beaming with enthusiasm as he laid out his platform in an exclusive interview with this reporter.  He hammered his points home with an enthusiasm rarely seen in men twice his age.

While lacking experience, his new Cabinet promises to bring a refreshing change to the political architecture of this province.

John Sinnott's Cabinet
C. Davis photos

Sinnott is a man of lofty ideals, and he cuts through dissent with a level gaze that allows little deviation from his true ideals.   His pencil is sharp, and he's not afraid to draw the line.  Once elected, he promises to rebuild the Province, and to give everyone who votes for him $100 "Once I finish printing the bills."

"I'm going to give everybody a new set of underwear," Sinnott explained, "complete with a peekaboo hole in 'em, and I'm going to declare a holiday every other day so we can party, and I'm going to put a Sunday in between so we can rest up."

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Sinnott's campaign is not without it's detractors.  "I heard he measures once and cuts twice," said one saw.  A confidential source at the Windsor-Heritage Senior's Centre in Lundbreck questioned whether his much-touted wisdom was a facade, saying  "He's missing the second floor."

Scandal threatened to dismantle his campaign when it was alleged that he had been seen leaving Cowley Co-op with a chippie he picked up "straight from the pile", and that he had at one time been a member of a splinter group.  Those rumours turned out to have been a complete fabrication constructed by this reporter.

Far from being a hammerhead, Sinnott could be just the man to change the blueprint of Alberta politics forever, or at least until lunch.

Vote for me and I'll set you free!

"The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house." ~ Isaiah 44:13