{"id":2084,"date":"2008-12-07T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2008-12-07T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T02:55:00","slug":"leblanc-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2084","title":{"rendered":"LeBlanc Out&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Dion expected to resign this week, and the leadership race rumoured to be moved up. And here we thought all the political insanity had been prorogued until January, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/in-support-of-dominic-leblanc.html\">As a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">LeBlanc<\/span><\/span> supporter<\/a> I&#8217;m obviously <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">disappointed<\/span> by this turn of events. I never expected Dominic to win, but felt he had a lot to bring to this race &#8211; especially on the issues of party renewal and of growing the party outside the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">GTA<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I do think that by <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">dropping<\/span> out, Dominic has missed a golden opportunity to showcase his many talents, but I&#8217;ll leave it to him to explain his reasoning come tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> The talk of caucus appointing the leader? Ain&#8217;t gonna happen. Not a chance. I should probably know better by now than to use the &#8220;not dumb enough&#8221; argument on anything the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">LPC<\/span> does, but I have to think that the Liberal Party is not dumb enough to actually try something like that. It wouldn&#8217;t serve <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">anyone&#8217;s<\/span> interests. Not Rae&#8217;s. Not <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Ignatieff&#8217;s<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Dion expected to resign this week, and the leadership race rumoured to be moved up. And here we thought all the political insanity had been prorogued until January, eh? As a LeBlanc supporter I&#8217;m obviously disappointed by this turn of events. I never expected Dominic to win, but felt he had a lot to bring [&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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084"}],"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=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}