{"id":1654,"date":"2008-02-08T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2008-02-08T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T14:49:00","slug":"say-my-name-say-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"Say My Name, Say My Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/albertavotes2008\/notebook\/2008\/02\/old_whatshisname.html\">this <\/a>reflects worse on Ed Stelmach, or on Brian Mason:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">A reporter asked Stelmach to react to NDP Leader Brian Mason&#8217;s earlier release of an email his party received from the chair of the province&#8217;s royalty review panel, Bill Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Stelmach said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not aware of Bill&#8217;s comments uh and uh&#8230; and and even if he did talk to or if he did or didn&#8217;t talk to Bill Mason&#8230; uh, or &#8230; whatever his name is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Off microphone, a Calgary PC candidate volunteered to the leader: &#8220;Brian.&#8221; So Stelmach continued: &#8220;Brian. Yes.&#8221; That then drew laughter from the Calgary candidates.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>In Other News&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t over emphasize this one too much because, in fairness, it&#8217;s only one dude, but here&#8217;s what Preston Manning&#8217;s former press secretary and <a href=\"http:\/\/calsun.canoe.ca\/News\/Columnists\/Bell_Rick\/2008\/02\/08\/4834278-sun.php\">hard right Reformer Ron Wood <\/a>had to say yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">For 40 years Ron has supported right-wing parties. His dad&#8217;s side of the family has been of the conservative stripe for a century. But, in this election, Ron is voting Liberal and telling people why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You go back to Getty and his solution to everything was smother it with money, every time there was a hiccup he threw money at it. Stelmach is doing the same thing,&#8221; says Ron, who got this page his first interview with Manning.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But voting Liberal doesn&#8217;t mean Ron is bending the knee leftward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I am still a fiscal conservative, But the funny thing is so is Dave Taylor, so is Pat Murray. From what I&#8217;ve read Kevin Taft is a cautious spender,&#8221; says the Reform party insider.<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this reflects worse on Ed Stelmach, or on Brian Mason: A reporter asked Stelmach to react to NDP Leader Brian Mason&#8217;s earlier release of an email his party received from the chair of the province&#8217;s royalty review panel, Bill Hunter. Here&#8217;s what Stelmach said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not aware of Bill&#8217;s comments uh [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","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=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}