{"id":1769,"date":"2008-05-12T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2008-05-12T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:49:00","slug":"electoral-change-that-works-for-ed-stelmach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Change That Works&#8230;For Ed Stelmach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are at least a dozen things Ed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Stelmach<\/span> could do to clean up politics in Alberta. So what has he chosen to change?<\/p>\n<p>Fixed election dates? A citizen&#8217;s assembly? More open <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">FOIP<\/span> rules? Campaign spending limits? A ban on corporate donations? A cap on individual donations? A more powerful auditor general? Independent <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">ROs<\/span>? More government resources for opposition <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">MLAs<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Instead he&#8217;s gunning for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgaryherald\/news\/story.html?id=3b2de670-ee43-4ff8-98bc-cedc6fd0ab75\">ban on third party <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">advertising<\/span><\/a> during campaigns &#8211; the <em>one<\/em> change that will actually <em>help<\/em> him (after the Albertans for Change ads attacked him last campaign).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are at least a dozen things Ed Stelmach could do to clean up politics in Alberta. So what has he chosen to change? Fixed election dates? A citizen&#8217;s assembly? More open FOIP rules? Campaign spending limits? A ban on corporate donations? A cap on individual donations? A more powerful auditor general? Independent ROs? More [&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-1769","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\/1769","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=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}