 Six different constituencies nominated Rogers as one of their candidates, and Aberhart decided that she should run in Ponoka.Her opponent from the governing United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) was former Premier John Edward Brownlee, who had resigned the previous year in the wake of a sex scandal in which he was sued for the seduction of a young woman.Brownlee biographer Franklin Foster speculates that the selection of a female candidate to run against the so-called "sober faced seducer" was a deliberate strategic decision by Aberhart, and noted further that "aside from Aberhart himself, [Social Credit] could not have fielded a stronger candidate" in Ponoka.