{"id":1510,"date":"2007-09-12T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2007-09-12T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T02:34:00","slug":"18-of-calgary-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"(18% of) Calgary Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calgary’s municipal election gets off and rolling officially on Monday but things are already heating up. So, yes, my Toronto readers, go read one of the many other liblogers<\/span><\/span> <\/a><\/span>blood feuding over MMP<\/span>, today’s post is all for Calgarians<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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1. Ward 1 challenger Carol Neuman<\/span><\/span> has some absolutely hilarious posters on her facebook<\/span><\/span> group <\/a>that made me chuckle. It might be a good idea for the Alberta Liberals to do a similar “the world has changed since 1971” campaign virally<\/span><\/span> next provincial election:<\/div>\n

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2. Barry Erskine has announced he won’t be running again <\/a>in Ward 11. Rumour is he’ll be going for the PC nomination in Calgary Elbow against Craig Cheffins<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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3. I did my first post <\/a>on the Alnoor<\/span><\/span> Kassam<\/span><\/span> HQ blog <\/a>on Tuesday, recapping<\/span> the Monday council meeting I attended. As you can see by the information package they gave out to everyone attending it was…to put it mildly…a long <\/em>meeting.<\/div>\n
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4. From the looks of things, there should be somewhat serious challenges <\/a>to most of the aldermen except for the trio in the far south.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calgary’s municipal election gets off and rolling officially on Monday but things are already heating up. So, yes, my Toronto readers, go read one of the many other liblogers blood feuding over MMP, today’s post is all for Calgarians. 1. Ward 1 challenger Carol Neuman has some absolutely hilarious posters on her facebook group that […]<\/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":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calgary-municipal-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","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=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}