{"id":1760,"date":"2008-05-06T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2008-05-06T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T23:34:00","slug":"if-youve-got-120-and-120-hours-to-spar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"If You\u2019ve Got $120 And 120 Hours To Spare\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SCDCC46zdII\/AAAAAAAAAa0\/l-cOcNEUYZc\/s1600-h\/VF2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197367324880106626\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SCDCC46zdII\/AAAAAAAAAa0\/l-cOcNEUYZc\/s320\/VF2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Since I\u2019ve been bitching about the Liberal Party\u2019s fundraising problems for ever and ever, it\u2019s only fair to help them publicize this latest initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Meet \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoryfund.ca\/\">The Victory Fund<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a stab at trying to get those small time donors the CPC have so effectively recruited with their \u201cgive us 20$ because the CBC is eeeevil\u201d direct mail campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the pitch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">St\u00e9phane Dion and the Liberal Party need your help and that of all our members to defeat Stephen Harper and build a strong Liberal Party.<\/p>\n<p>Your contribution of as little as $10 per month \u2013 the equivalent of just $2.50 per month after your year-end tax rebate (that\u2019s the price of a coffee and muffin!) \u2013 will make this happen.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$2.50 for a coffee <em>and<\/em> muffin? Maybe the Liberals are catering to the Tim Hortons, rather than the Starbucks, crowd!<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>But what\u2019s in it for me<\/em>?\u201d I\u2019m sure you\u2019re asking yourself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Victory Fund supporters will be invited to participate in 120 hours (each year) of live online dialogues with senior members of the Liberal caucus and other key party figures. In addition, at the upcoming biennial convention, there will be a Victory Fund reception area, lounge and preferred seating.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the thought of someone wanting to chat on MSN with Garth Turner for 120 hours is a bit disturbing, I\u2019m all about preferred seating so I\u2019ll definitely be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoryfund.ca\/\">signing up<\/a>, and I encourage other Liberals to as well.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the plan, you need to pick a riding association to sponsor, and since I\u2019ve been nomadic for the last few years, that poses a bit of dilemma. So here\u2019s what I\u2019ll do: e-mail me with the reason I should donate to their riding association &#8211; whoever sends in the best reason gets the donation for their riding: calgarygrit@gmail.com<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I\u2019ve been bitching about the Liberal Party\u2019s fundraising problems for ever and ever, it\u2019s only fair to help them publicize this latest initiative. Meet \u201cThe Victory Fund\u201d \u2013 a stab at trying to get those small time donors the CPC have so effectively recruited with their \u201cgive us 20$ because the CBC is eeeevil\u201d [&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-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","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=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}