{"id":2154,"date":"2009-02-02T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2009-02-02T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T00:33:00","slug":"monday-news-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Monday News Items"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Dr. Tom is the latest to jump on the “death of Conservatism”\/”Right wing uprising” train, in this Globe op-ed<\/a>. While there might<\/em> be a fundraising backlash, I wouldn’t expect any of this to hurt Harper at the polls. According to this poll<\/a> (page 35), only 1% of Conservative voters are less likely to vote Tory because of the budget.<\/p>\n

And having a few right wingers go on rants that Harper “isn’t conservative enough<\/em>” may not be a bad thing for the guy…<\/p>\n

2. Speaking of fundraising, the latest numbers are out<\/a>. While there is some mild encouragement in Q4 for the Liberals, it’s abundantly obvious why Harper would love to do away with the public funding of political parties.<\/p>\n

3. There’s a lot of buzz over this “fawning” profile<\/a> of Michael Ignatieff<\/span> in the New York Times.<\/p>\n

4. Tom Clark has won the CTV<\/span> On the Hill<\/em> “host race”. <\/a>Clark is promising that on Mike Duffy Live<\/strike> On The Hill<\/strike> Power Play “anyone who tries to use spin is going to be in for a rather unpleasant surprise”, which is a bold promise to make for a show made up mostly of spin doctor panel segments<\/span>.<\/p>\n

5. Although I didn’t get a chance to see the OYL<\/span> hijinx<\/span> first hand, I’d just like to offer a hearty congratulations to David Valentin<\/a> (and Alex Crombie) who ran, and won, as independents – always a challenging thing to accomplish in youth politics.<\/p>\n

6. The latest<\/a> on the Peter MacKay<\/span> for NATO secretary general rumours. <\/a><\/p>\n

7. Four Newfoundland Liberals have broken ranks and will vote against Harper’s budget<\/a>. It would be hard for Ignatieff to punish his MPs for voting against<\/em> a budget he has been less than enamoured with himself – especially if he hopes to hang on to the 6 Newfoundland seats the party holds. I’d say he spin it in public as symbolic support for Newfoundland and a sign he won’t be dictactorial…then rap over a few knuckles in private.<\/p>\n

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1. Dr. Tom is the latest to jump on the “death of Conservatism”\/”Right wing uprising” train, in this Globe op-ed. While there might be a fundraising backlash, I wouldn’t expect any of this to hurt Harper at the polls. According to this poll (page 35), only 1% of Conservative voters are less likely to vote […]<\/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\/2154"}],"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=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}