{"id":2353,"date":"2009-07-31T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2009-07-31T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T12:37:00","slug":"a-green-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"A Green Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Update at bottom&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ext\/share.php?sid=110105908239&amp;h=y1nCO&amp;u=nRuFL&amp;ref=nf\">This<\/a> is huge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">OTTAWA \u2014 For the first time in years, the federal Liberals are giving the Tories a run for their money when it comes to fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>During the second quarter of 2009, Liberals pulled in $3.878 million &#8211; a whisker short of the $3.957 million raked in by the cash-hoovering Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Overall this year, Liberals have amassed $5.7 million in donations, more than triple their take during same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives have pulled in $8.3 million so far, down slightly from 2008.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious to see where the parties are at on the <em>number <\/em>of donors, since if this has come mostly from maxing out the big fish early, it will be harder to sustain these kind of numbers throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>But this is still excellent news.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: Pundits Guide has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punditsguide.ca\/2009\/07\/liberals-have-strongest-q2-in-years-but.php\">breakdown by donation size<\/a>. Even though the Liberals and Tories were close in total donations, the Tories had 81% more donors than the Liberals, who relied mostly on large donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update at bottom&#8230; This is huge: OTTAWA \u2014 For the first time in years, the federal Liberals are giving the Tories a run for their money when it comes to fundraising. During the second quarter of 2009, Liberals pulled in $3.878 million &#8211; a whisker short of the $3.957 million raked in by the cash-hoovering [&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\/2353"}],"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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}