{"id":1589,"date":"2007-12-03T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2007-12-03T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T04:55:00","slug":"money-for-nothing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"Money for Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/adapt-or-leave.html\">Craig Chandler <\/a>is none too happy today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Rejected Tory candidate Craig Chandler says he plans to sue the Alberta Progressive Conservatives for the $127,000 he claims he spent on his campaign to secure the party&#8217;s nomination in Calgary-<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Egmont<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Chandler said he now wants his money back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t they let me know beforehand that they weren&#8217;t going to let me run,&#8221; said Chandler. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s cruel and unusual punishment to allow me to spend $127,000 and six months of my life on the campaign,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Forget a lawsuit. Given the cruel and unusual punishment that&#8217;s been inflicted on Chandler, I think he should be taking this one in front of the Alberta Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Delayed Hat Tip because he insists upon it to the GPOitHotW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Chandler is none too happy today: Rejected Tory candidate Craig Chandler says he plans to sue the Alberta Progressive Conservatives for the $127,000 he claims he spent on his campaign to secure the party&#8217;s nomination in Calgary-Egmont. [&#8230;] Chandler said he now wants his money back. &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t they let me know beforehand that [&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-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","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=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}