{"id":2498,"date":"2009-11-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2012-05-29T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:22:21","slug":"christmas-letters-elizabeth-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Letters: Elizabeth May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exclusive look at Elizabeth May&#8217;s Christmas letter, after posting ones for <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/christmas-letters-stephen-harper.html\">Harper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/christmas-letters-michael-ignatief.html\">Ignatieff<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/christmas-letters-jack-layton.html\">Layton <\/a>earlier this week.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Hi, it\u2019s me &#8211; Elizabeth May. From the Green Party. I was the lady in the debates last year.<\/p>\n<p>I know you\u2019ve probably been wondering what I\u2019ve been up to. It\u2019s not that I\u2019ve been quiet, it\u2019s that the media continues to unfairly ignore the Green Party.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Swr9JQWIGuI\/AAAAAAAABaE\/SIx7Ajhtbok\/s1600\/may2.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407412638060124898\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/Swr9JQWIGuI\/AAAAAAAABaE\/SIx7Ajhtbok\/s200\/may2.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">So you may have been surprised to see a BC postmark on this envelope, but don\u2019t be \u2013 I\u2019ve got a new home! After Green Party strategists pointed out that it was foolish for me to take on an established Cabinet Minister like Peter MacKay in the last election, I\u2019ve picked a new riding to run in. This time, I\u2019ll be tricycling door to door to defeat Minister of State for Sport Gary Lunn, so I would really appreciate your vote. Unless you want to vote Liberal, which I\u2019m mostly cool with too.<\/p>\n<p>Given all that\u2019s happened with the world economy over the past year, I know there\u2019s one issue on the minds of all Canadians &#8211; proportional representation! This issue is often confusing so let me put it in terms so simple that even Canadian voters, in all their ignorance, will be able to understand:<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say your family is sitting down for a winter equinox tofurkey dinner. Do you think it\u2019s fairer that one person gets a majority of the tofurkey, or would you rather everyone gets a fair portion? Proportional representation is kind of like that.<\/p>\n<p>Please recycle this letter at your earliest convenience,<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth May<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exclusive look at Elizabeth May&#8217;s Christmas letter, after posting ones for Harper, Ignatieff, and Layton earlier this week. Friends, Hi, it\u2019s me &#8211; Elizabeth May. From the Green Party. I was the lady in the debates last year. I know you\u2019ve probably been wondering what I\u2019ve been up to. It\u2019s not that I\u2019ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,1],"tags":[1100],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-posts","category-humour","category-uncategorized","tag-elizabeth-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}