{"id":2298,"date":"2009-06-04T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2009-06-04T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T03:52:00","slug":"political-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"Political Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sent out by the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">NDP<\/span> on Tuesday. I&#8217;m sure President Obama will be eternally grateful for Jack&#8217;s &#8220;help&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Dear Friend,<\/p>\n<p>Today, Jack Layton flies to Washington D.C. to help President Obama in his fight for universal health care. And to fight to protect our cherished Medicare back here in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an important few days, and I want you to share every step.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m inviting you to follow along on twitter as Jack delivers his speech on our fight for Medicare at the Woodrow Wilson Center. And as we meet with key Obama Democrats &#8211; like White House Director of Communications Anita Dunn.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click here to follow Jack Layton on twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m also down in Washington to meet with key senior Democrats about how they waged a winning campaign for change that put everyday people first, ahead of the big corporate interests \u2013 just like we want to do in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow me on twitter by clicking here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the other parties are staring each other down, playing political games, this is what your New Democrats are up to. Fighting day in and day out to get real results for real people [<em><strong>ed note: in the United States<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;] . Thanks for being a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Brad <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Lavigne<\/span><br \/>National Director<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent out by the NDP on Tuesday. I&#8217;m sure President Obama will be eternally grateful for Jack&#8217;s &#8220;help&#8221;&#8230; Dear Friend, Today, Jack Layton flies to Washington D.C. to help President Obama in his fight for universal health care. And to fight to protect our cherished Medicare back here in Canada. It\u2019s an important few days, [&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\/2298"}],"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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}