{"id":18845,"date":"2014-09-20T19:42:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T23:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=18845"},"modified":"2014-09-20T19:42:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T23:42:48","slug":"the-rob-anders-rejection-tour-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=18845","title":{"rendered":"The Rob Anders Rejection Tour Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rob Anders, hard at work<\/figcaption><\/figure>I know I said I wouldn’t blog much over the next year, but if I have to come on here every time Rob Anders loses a nomination, I’m going to run out of bandwidth.<\/p>\n

Here <\/a>was Rob back in July, on his decision to seek the CPC nomination in Bow River:<\/p>\n

\u201cI really feel that [Bow River] is the Alberta I moved to in the 1980s. It\u2019s a place with more trucks, and it certainly wouldn’t have elected someone like Naheed Nenshi, or other liberals pretending to be Conservatives these days. I feel a real connection. I find the people there are actually very sympathetic. They\u2019re real Conservatives and you certainly feel that. There\u2019s a strong pro-life movement going on in this riding, all sorts of hunting and shooting ranges.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Today Anders was defeated by Martin Shields<\/a>, who I can only assume is a secret Liberal. I mean, the guy doesn’t even own a truck.<\/p>\n

After being rejected in Bow River, the question now becomes where Rob turns next. Wildrose leader Danielle Smith, who signed the nomination papers for a candidate who said gays would “burn in a fiery lake for eternity<\/a>“, has already said “thanks, but no thanks” to Rob, gently suggesting he move to the private sector<\/a>. There is the upcoming Yellowhead by-election, but that’s a riding that elected “secret Liberal” Joe Clark four times. So scratch that.<\/p>\n

If only there were a group of voters who would “never elect someone like Naheed Nenshi”, longing for a leader cut from Rob’s cloth.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the deadline to run for Mayor of Toronto has passed, so this might very well be the end of Rob Anders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I said I wouldn’t blog much over the next year, but if I have to come on here every time Rob Anders loses a nomination, I’m going to run out of bandwidth. Here was Rob back in July, on his decision to seek the CPC nomination in Bow River: \u201cI really feel that […]<\/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":[1068],"class_list":["post-18845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-politics","tag-rob-anders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845","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=18845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18851,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions\/18851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}