{"id":3137,"date":"2011-09-19T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2011-09-19T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T16:47:00","slug":"its-bad-enough-the-ndp-are-letting-other-candidates-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3137","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s bad enough the NDP are letting other candidates run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/business\/Delay%2Bleadership%2Brace%2Brunning%2BMulcair\/5346401\/story.html\">September 2nd<\/a>: <em>Thomas Mulcair says he won&#8217;t run for the leadership of the NDP unless the party agrees to hold its convention in late winter or early spring, because he wouldn&#8217;t be able to compete in a short race.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/mulcair-does-the-ndp-leadership-math-but-numbers-dont-add-up\/article2171226\/\">September 19th<\/a>: <em>[Muclair] told reporters on Monday that he has truly not decided if he will throw his hat into the ring because the numbers for a Quebec candidate do not add up well. Although the majority of New Democrat MPs are from Quebec, \u201cQuebec is the only province that does not have a provincial wing of the NDP,\u201d said Mr. Mulcair.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last hour wracking my brain to come up with a rationale for how Mulcair&#8217;s musings might help him in this contest, but can&#8217;t think of anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2nd: Thomas Mulcair says he won&#8217;t run for the leadership of the NDP unless the party agrees to hold its convention in late winter or early spring, because he wouldn&#8217;t be able to compete in a short race. September 19th: [Muclair] told reporters on Monday that he has truly not decided if he will [&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\/3137"}],"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=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}