{"id":2795,"date":"2010-11-09T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2010-11-09T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T00:38:00","slug":"keith-martin-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2795","title":{"rendered":"Keith Martin Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s the weather or what, but it seems like everyone is deciding to pack it up. Another day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfax1070.com\/newsstory.php?newsId=16027\">another retirement announcement<\/a> &#8211; this time Liberal MP Keith Martin.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always had a lot of time for Keith Martin. He entered politics for the right reasons. When he switched parties, it wasn&#8217;t to grab a Cabinet seat &#8211; he sat as an independent, won the Liberal nomination, then ran and won under the Liberal banner in the 2004 election. He&#8217;s always been an issues-driven MP, trying to make a difference, with Health Care reform the topic most near and dear to his heart. (<em>Click here to see <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/vancouver-interviews-keith-martin-on.html\"><em>my interview<\/em><\/a><em> with him on the state of Health Care in Canada<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Martin&#8217;s loss will definitely be a blow to the Liberals. My <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/seat-projections.html\">seat projector<\/a> pegged his re-election odds at 61%, but it&#8217;s foolish to think Esquimalt-Juan De Fuca was anything but a Keith Martin seat. And since Martin only took the riding by 68 votes last time, this one has CPC pick-up written all over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s the weather or what, but it seems like everyone is deciding to pack it up. Another day, another retirement announcement &#8211; this time Liberal MP Keith Martin. I&#8217;ve always had a lot of time for Keith Martin. He entered politics for the right reasons. When he switched parties, it wasn&#8217;t [&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\/2795"}],"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=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}