{"id":1602,"date":"2007-12-17T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2007-12-17T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T23:09:00","slug":"the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"The Gift that Keeps on Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.blogspot.com\/\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Daveberta<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/mana-from-heaven-for-calgary-egmont.html\">Craig Chandler <\/a>will be running as an independent candidate in Calgary <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Egmont<\/span> and he has started to fill out a slate of men who share his views. While I have serious doubts about any of them, save Chandler, drawing a huge chunk of votes, they will have money and will be relatively well organized so they might be able to drain up to 10% of the vote in their <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">ridings. This is notable since three of the Chandlerettes are running in seats the ALP could win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Jim Blake \u2013 Running as a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Wildrose<\/span> Party candidate or as an Independent in the Constituency of Calgary Currie. <\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>Sid <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Helishauer<\/span> &#8211; As an Alberta Alliance Party candidate or an Independent in the Constituency of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Airdrie<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">Chestermere<\/span>. <\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>Harley <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">Shouldice<\/span> &#8211; As an Independent in the Constituency of Calgary North Hill. <\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>David <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">Crutcher<\/span> \u2013 Either as an Alberta Alliance or as an Independent in the Constituency of Calgary <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_9\">Glenmore<\/span>. David <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_10\">Crutcher<\/span> will be delivering a message very clearly to the Deputy Premier, Ron Stevens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Daveberta, Craig Chandler will be running as an independent candidate in Calgary Egmont and he has started to fill out a slate of men who share his views. While I have serious doubts about any of them, save Chandler, drawing a huge chunk of votes, they will have money and will be relatively well [&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-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}