{"id":1413,"date":"2007-06-05T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2007-06-05T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T17:28:00","slug":"protecting-anders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Anders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those not following the story closely, a judge ordered the Conservative Party to re-hold the nomination meeting in Calgary West, after it was found that the rules were rigged to ensure an Anders win back last fall.<\/p>\n<p>So, after being ordered to do this, the Tories decided to slant the rules to ensure an Anders win. And, because of this, it looks like <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">everyone&#8217;s<\/span> favourite MP will be acclaimed, since the candidates vying to replace him have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgaryherald\/news\/city\/story.html?id=b19b5ada-0fae-473a-bc97-a4e5ddb28452\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">dropped<\/span> out, blaming the nomination rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I was a bit surprised. I mean, why are the Conservatives so keen on protecting such an <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">embarrassing<\/span> MP. A man who has been muzzled and appears to have no function or purpose in Ottawa. But, then I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070605.wwinnievisa0605\/BNStory\/International\/home\">this <\/a>news story and it became apparent that Rob is still hard at work for Canada&#8217;s New Government  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">OTTAWA \u2014 Canada has denied a visa to South African anti-apartheid leader Winnie <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Madikizela<\/span>-Mandela, who was to have been the keynote speaker at a fund-raising gala in Toronto on Tuesday featuring an opera about her life.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those not following the story closely, a judge ordered the Conservative Party to re-hold the nomination meeting in Calgary West, after it was found that the rules were rigged to ensure an Anders win back last fall. So, after being ordered to do this, the Tories decided to slant the rules to ensure an [&hellip;]<\/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-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}