{"id":1862,"date":"2008-08-14T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2008-08-14T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T22:15:00","slug":"v-is-for-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"V is for Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SKNtrBsnPQI\/AAAAAAAAAf4\/uxP566pZrEA\/s1600-h\/victory+fund.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234147777892007170\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SKNtrBsnPQI\/AAAAAAAAAf4\/uxP566pZrEA\/s320\/victory+fund.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Back in <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/if-youve-got-120-and-120-hours-to-spare.html\">May<\/a>, I posted about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/victoryfund_e.aspx\">Liberal Party&#8217;s Victory Fund<\/a> and invited readers to suggest what riding I should donate to. Danielle <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Takacs<\/span> wrote up a post in <a href=\"http:\/\/danielletakacs.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/better-know-district-brant-and-victory.html\">support of Brant<\/a>,  Saskatoon-Humboldt sent me a top ten list, and I got compelling e-mails in support of Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Fredericton, Burlington and a host of others.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>So when I noticed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/events_e.aspx\">Skyline BBQ for Victory Fund members<\/a> coming up on Centre Island in Toronto next week, I figured it was time to stop dithering and just make a choice. With the Democrats competitive in states like Virginia, Montana, and Indiana (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20080721\/moser\"><em>Texas<\/em><\/a>?), it seems obvious to me that Dean&#8217;s 50 state strategy is paying <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">dividends<\/span>. In Canada, the Conservatives won in 1984 and 2006 when they realized they couldn&#8217;t write off 75 seats in Quebec every election. Yet, the Liberals gladly write off that many in Western Canada, a region whose political importance keeps growing. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>So, between that, and the fact that it&#8217;s the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">friggin<\/span>&#8216; <em><u>Calgary<\/u><\/em> Grit blog, I felt I should pick a Calgary riding. And, as luck would have it, the riding that received the most votes for my donation just happened to be Calgary West. The 5$ a month is a small price to pay for the satisfaction in knowing you&#8217;re doing something to help defeat Rob Anders so that&#8217;s where half my direct deposit will be going.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May, I posted about the Liberal Party&#8217;s Victory Fund and invited readers to suggest what riding I should donate to. Danielle Takacs wrote up a post in support of Brant, Saskatoon-Humboldt sent me a top ten list, and I got compelling e-mails in support of Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Fredericton, Burlington and a host of others. [&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-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}