{"id":2785,"date":"2010-10-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2010-10-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T13:00:00","slug":"dont-quit-your-day-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Quit Your Day Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg breaks the anti-incumbency craze sweeping the nation, <a href=\"http:\/\/winnipeg.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20101027\/wpg_mayor_winner_101027\/20101028\/?hub=WinnipegHome\">returning Sam Katz to office<\/a>, despite the fact that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aTtiieTSe4I\">kicks children in the face<\/a>. Going down in defeat is former NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Manitoba, former Reform\/CA\/DRC\/PC\/CPC MP Inky Mark <a href=\"http:\/\/winnipeg.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20101026\/wpg_dauphin_election_winner_101027\/20101028\/?hub=WinnipegHome\">loses <\/a>by 36 votes in Dauphin.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves Maurizio Bevilacqua the only winner among the three MPs who jumped to municipal politics this fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: I should add that former Liberal MPs Ken Boshcoff and Joe Fontana won their races on Monday. Though for Boshcoff (defeated in 2008), it was only for a council spot and for Fontana, it was his second attempt at the top job since resigning in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg breaks the anti-incumbency craze sweeping the nation, returning Sam Katz to office, despite the fact that he kicks children in the face. Going down in defeat is former NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis. Elsewhere in Manitoba, former Reform\/CA\/DRC\/PC\/CPC MP Inky Mark loses by 36 votes in Dauphin. This leaves Maurizio Bevilacqua the only winner among [&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\/2785"}],"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=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}