{"id":2210,"date":"2009-03-29T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T23:14:00","slug":"vote-out-anders-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Vote Out Anders&#8217;&#8230;Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enlightened Savage gives the run-down of yesterday&#8217;s Calgary West <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">AGM<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/enlightenedsavage.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/liveish-blogging-calgary-west-agm.html\">here<\/a>. My various &#8220;sources&#8221; who were there say the place was packed (well over 400 in attendance), and the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">shenanigans <\/span>were kept to a minimum with everyone fairly well behaved.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the slate backed by Anders&#8217; challenger, Donna Kennedy-Glans, won the day, taking 29 of the 30 board spots (with 2 of them also being on the Anders slate).<\/p>\n<p>But before everyone gets too giddy over the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">potential<\/span> demise of Anders, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/heard-on-hill.html\">keep this in mind<\/a>: under new rules, it takes a 2\/3 vote of party members to force a nomination meetings. So, even if the anti-Anders (or, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/closet-liberals.html\">closet Liberal<\/a>&#8220;, if you prefer) slate won the day, this may turn out to be a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">pyrrhic<\/span> victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlightened Savage gives the run-down of yesterday&#8217;s Calgary West AGM here. My various &#8220;sources&#8221; who were there say the place was packed (well over 400 in attendance), and the shenanigans were kept to a minimum with everyone fairly well behaved. In the end, the slate backed by Anders&#8217; challenger, Donna Kennedy-Glans, won the day, taking [&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\/2210"}],"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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}