Tory candidates groove to their own tunes

Tory leadership campaign songs have a beat, but can you govern to them?

In the final push to capture the attention of Alberta Conservative party members before Saturday's vote, candidates are putting their campaigns to music.

The Ted Morton campaign has released a theme song to pump up the troops called Ted Morton is the Man, written and produced by supporter Bobbie Norman.

Theresa Lightfoot has also written and preformed a tune for her favourite candidate, Jim Dinning.

The lyrics begin with: "Let's sing a song for Jim. Let's sing a song for Jim. We want to see Jim win."

But it seems none of the other candidatesis planning a musical rebuttal.

Ed Stelmach, Gary McPherson and Lyle Oberg don't have plans to release campaign songs this week.

Dave Hancock's communications manager, Daniel Stelck, confirmed his candidate doesn't have a theme tune.

"Dave is a supporter of the arts and loves music, but getting a song out there wasn't high on the list of priorities."

If Victor Doerksenhad a campaign song, hetold CBC Newsitwould be Final Countdown by Europe, a song he picked with the help of his children.

Mark Norris, who can sing showtunes in tune,saidhe has a goodexcuse for not creating a campaign song.

"I come from a long line of politicians. My dad had a song and I was so embarrassed by it, I vowed I would never do it myself."