{"id":1844,"date":"2008-07-25T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2008-07-25T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T13:03:00","slug":"the-big-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"The Big Mo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ALP leadership race has it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/and-so-it-begins.html\">second<\/a> candidate, former Edmonton McClung MLA Mo Elsalhy. From Mo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/pages\/Mo-Elsalhy\/7387499293\">facebook page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Hi all. Join me as I make it official. On Friday, July 25th, at 12:30 at the front steps of the Legislature, I will confirm my intention to challenge for the leadership of the Alberta Liberal Party.<\/p>\n<p>Media will be there but we are planning the whole event to take no longer than 30-45 minutes at most. If you can come and would like to show your support, it would be great.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Mo<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 37 year old Elsalhy, while certainly a long-shot candidate, should bring a lot of energy to the campaign, and will hopefully be able to draw young people into the party.<\/p>\n<p>Being the first Edmonton candidate to declare, I can understand why he&#8217;s chosen the legislature for his launch but if I were running his campaign, I&#8217;d be playing up the youth angle and would paint him as a candidate who breaks the conventional political mould. With that in mind, I&#8217;m thinking something like a YouTube campaign launch would have worked better than the traditional one he&#8217;ll deliver later today.<\/p>\n<p>Mo&#8217;s leadership webpage, abbreviated as M.E.L.L. for reasons I cannot begin to comprehend, can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsalhy.com\/\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ALP leadership race has it&#8217;s second candidate, former Edmonton McClung MLA Mo Elsalhy. From Mo&#8217;s facebook page: Hi all. Join me as I make it official. On Friday, July 25th, at 12:30 at the front steps of the Legislature, I will confirm my intention to challenge for the leadership of the Alberta Liberal Party. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}