{"id":1595,"date":"2007-12-08T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2007-12-08T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T18:26:00","slug":"partisan-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Partisan Jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to be a good little Liberal blogger today and take a few jabs at the NDP and CPC. If Gilles Duceppe does something stupid by the end of the day (a 50\/50 proposition at worst), I’ll update the post to include a shot or two at him.<\/p>\n

First up, remember that investigation into Liberal Party polling practices headed up by former PQ Cabinet Minister Danielle Paille? Well, you probably don’t<\/em> because his conclusions have been sitting in report purgatory <\/a>for a month, no doubt waiting for a quiet December 24th publication. Well, it seems the CPC have broken Paul Martin’s spending record, with the PMO quadrupling its polling budget since ’05-06. When asked about it in the house, James Moore said he was “surprised<\/a>” to learn this.<\/p>\n

Speaking of James Moore surprises, hot on the heels of scantilycladwomangate, the NDP have been forced into yet another apology<\/a>, this time over accusations levelled during the last election:<\/p>\n

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NDP House leader Libby Davies formally apologized Thursday on behalf of her party for spreading allegations that a Liberal candidate in the last federal election tried to bribe his NDP rival to drop out of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New Democratic Party admits we seriously erred in making the allegations public and in putting a young and inexperienced candidate in a position where he felt justified in making those allegations and to repeat them on some 40 occasions to media across Canada,\u201d Ms. Davies told the Commons.<\/span><\/p>\n

[…]<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Davies admitted that the NDP erred in arranging for Hansen-Carlson to repeat his accusations widely in the media 10 days before the Jan. 26, 2006 election. And she said it made \u201canother serious error in judgment\u201d in failing to make public a letter from Canada’s elections commissioner, three days before the election, which cleared the two Liberals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You think? But, really, NDP errors in judgement aren’t that surprising; they’re as much a way of life as Liberal patronage or Conservatives complaining about Liberal patronage…<\/p>\n

What’s that<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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OTTAWA \u2014 The Conservative government appointed a raft of Tories to federal boards, agencies and as citizenship judges yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n

At least seven of the 11 appointments yesterday to the National Film Board, Via Rail, the CDIC, two shipping agencies, and citizenship judgeships, went to people with Tory links. They include a former MP, a former Manitoba MLA who now works for a Conservative MP, a former Canadian Alliance candidate, and advisers to federal and provincial Tory ministers.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stephen Harper practicing blatant patronage after railling against it for all those years? Man, he really must be using Mulroney as a mentor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to be a good little Liberal blogger today and take a few jabs at the NDP and CPC. If Gilles Duceppe does something stupid by the end of the day (a 50\/50 proposition at worst), I’ll update the post to include a shot or two at him. First up, remember that investigation into […]<\/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-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}