{"id":2568,"date":"2010-02-07T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:47:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:47:50","slug":"rob-anders-democracy-is-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"Rob Anders: &quot;Democracy is Petty&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, party members wanting open nominations. How petty of them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The tumultuous history of the federal Conservative riding association in Calgary West continued this week with the Tory party&#8217;s national council apparently assuming control of the association board.<\/p>\n<p>Most members of the Conservative riding board support Donna Kennedy-Glans, who wishes to challenge controversial incumbent MP Rob Anders in a nomination race. Riding association members were to be asked by the board this spring whether they wanted to attempt to hold another nomination race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have some people that are focused on what are fairly minuscule, petty issues to the distraction of that overall effort &#8212; they&#8217;re doing it to cause disruption to the party as a whole, for the council, for the member of Parliament,&#8221; Anders said Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to put that stuff to rest and move on.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, party members wanting open nominations. How petty of them. The tumultuous history of the federal Conservative riding association in Calgary West continued this week with the Tory party&#8217;s national council apparently assuming control of the association board. Most members of the Conservative riding board support Donna Kennedy-Glans, who wishes to challenge controversial incumbent MP [&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":[1068],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"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=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}