{"id":2050,"date":"2008-11-27T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2008-11-27T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:36:00","slug":"in-a-slightly-ironic-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2050","title":{"rendered":"In a slightly ironic twist…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…the Tory push to do away with public financing presents a golden fundraising opportunity to the other parties. Issues like this probably don’t resonate much<\/strike> at all with the general public, but to party members? I would imagine that Liberals might be willing to dish out $20, if they think it will help stall Tom Flanagan’s plan to destroy the Liberal Party of Canada.<\/p>\n

But, lo and behold, it\u2019s the Greens<\/em>, of all people, who appear to be taking advantage of it, sending out a fundraising e-mail today<\/a> asking for donations in light of Harper’s proposals. Now that’s<\/strong> how you run a political party.<\/p>\n

As for the LPC<\/span><\/span>? Well, there’s nothing from the party yet (surprise surprise), although the BC Young Liberals have started a facebook<\/span><\/span> campaign <\/a>encouraging people to donate to the LPC<\/span> to fight this.<\/p>\n

For anyone so inclined, the online donation page can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> I’ll give credit where credit is due and, second only to the Green Party in terms of speed, is the Michael Ignatieff<\/span> campaign, who sent out an e-mail tonight asking for donations to Michael’s campaign (and the victory fund) to stop Harper’s plan “to undermine the democratic underpinnings of Canada’s fair and open political system<\/em>“. Well played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…the Tory push to do away with public financing presents a golden fundraising opportunity to the other parties. Issues like this probably don’t resonate much at all with the general public, but to party members? I would imagine that Liberals might be willing to dish out $20, if they think it will help stall Tom […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050"}],"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=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}