Graham Thomson: Jam-packed UCP founding convention opens in Red Deer

Red Deer — They’re calling it “the largest political convention in the history of Alberta” and it sure as heck seems like it.
An estimated 2,600 people — most of them delegates with a couple of hundred observers tossed in — are registered to attend the founding convention of the United Conservative Party this weekend in Red Deer.
There are so many delegates signed up that organizers couldn’t fit them all in the main convention hall at the Sheraton H