{"id":1789,"date":"2008-06-03T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2008-06-03T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T13:01:00","slug":"alexa-mcdonough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Alexa McDonough&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;announces her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080602.wmcdonough0602\/BNStory\/National\/home\">retirement from politics<\/a>. Being a former <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">NDP<\/span> leader, one presumes this is just to set up her &#8220;comeback&#8221; in 5 or 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not familiar with the local dynamics, but one would imagine that this puts Halifax into play:<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006 Halifax Election Results<\/strong><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">McDonough<\/span> (<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">NDP<\/span>) 46.9%<br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">MacKinnon<\/span> (Lib) 30.9%<br \/>House (Con) 18%<br \/>Wright (Green) 3.9%<br \/>Seed (ML) 0.3%<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE: <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/Metro\/1059717.html\">Rumours abound<\/a> about possible NDP candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;announces her retirement from politics. Being a former NDP leader, one presumes this is just to set up her &#8220;comeback&#8221; in 5 or 10 years. I&#8217;m not familiar with the local dynamics, but one would imagine that this puts Halifax into play: 2006 Halifax Election ResultsMcDonough (NDP) 46.9%MacKinnon (Lib) 30.9%House (Con) 18%Wright (Green) 3.9%Seed (ML) [&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-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","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=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}