{"id":1459,"date":"2007-07-27T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2007-07-27T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T15:14:00","slug":"two-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Two Stories&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;both of which the Grant Devine Fan Club will love:<\/p>\n<p>1.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20070724\/grit_fundraiser_070724\/20070724?hub=Politics\">OTTAWA <\/a>&#8212; Special Liberal fundraising events have so far failed to put much of a dent in the almost $4 million in debts racked up by 11 former leadership contenders.<\/p>\n<p>The first event in Halifax two weeks ago &#8212; a cocktail reception featuring Leader Stephane Dion and six of his erstwhile rivals &#8212; attracted about 60 people who paid $250 each. After expenses, however, party insiders say the event netted only about $5,400.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$250 * 60 = $15,000. So that means there was about $10,000 in costs for a 60 person event. How hard is it to cook up some rubber chicken and have Bob Rae play a few tunes on the piano? Whoever organized this thing should not be organizing fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070726.wontarioauditor0727\/BNStory\/National\/home\">Ways <\/a>not to kick off a re-election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;both of which the Grant Devine Fan Club will love: 1. OTTAWA &#8212; Special Liberal fundraising events have so far failed to put much of a dent in the almost $4 million in debts racked up by 11 former leadership contenders. The first event in Halifax two weeks ago &#8212; a cocktail reception featuring Leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"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=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}