{"id":1027,"date":"2006-07-29T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2006-07-29T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T06:42:00","slug":"the-daily-dinning-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Dinning Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must say, I’m downright giddy after reading this gem from Paul Wells<\/a>. Apparently my best buddy Jim Dinning personally donated $25,000 to the Paul Martin campaign back in 2002 (this certainly won’t help to dispel the frequently made comparisons between Dinning and Martin). Here’s the text of the letter which I can only hope will be reprinted in every newspaper in Alberta over the next few days:<\/p>\n

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February 7, 2002<\/p>\n

Mr. Jim Palmer
[Address]<\/p>\n

Dear Jim,<\/p>\n

Further to your conversation with Steve Snyder, I am pleased to provide you TransAlta’s support for Project 2000.<\/p>\n

On a personal note, I worry that our governments across the country have become a ‘hotbed of rest’ and I can only hope that Mr. Martin and others might be able to re-inject a sense of urgency, passion and priority into the affairs of our nation. Soon.<\/p>\n

Kind personal regards,<\/p>\n

[Signature]
Jim Dinning
Executive Vice President
Sustainable Development and External Relations
<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Now, for those of you confused as to why this would be a major scandal (besides the misleading statements Dinning gave back at the time that Wells gets into), let me explain a bit to you about Alberta politics. Albertans are very forgiving people. If you make fun of people on AISH, they’ll forgive you. If you throw a book at a young girl, they’ll forgive you. If you say that ranchers should have “shot, shoveled, and shut up” rather than reporting Mad Cow cases, they’ll forgive you. If in a drunken stupor, you go and berate homeless people at a shelter, they’ll forgive you.<\/p>\n

But there is one thing Albertans will not forgive you for.<\/p>\n

And that one thing is being connected to the federal Liberals. So I suspect donating $25,000 to Paul Martin’s campaign will not go over extremely well with the PC members in this province. Just a hunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must say, I’m downright giddy after reading this gem from Paul Wells. Apparently my best buddy Jim Dinning personally donated $25,000 to the Paul Martin campaign back in 2002 (this certainly won’t help to dispel the frequently made comparisons between Dinning and Martin). Here’s the text of the letter which I can only hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}