{"id":3177,"date":"2011-11-02T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2011-11-02T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:05:00","slug":"this-race-is-unfair-vote-for-mulcair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"This Race Is Unfair, Vote For Mulcair!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some leadership campaigns like to make a policy announcement every week.<\/p>\n

For Thomas Mulcair, it appears he had adopted a “complaint-a-week” strategy. The latest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

NDP’s Mulcair blames ‘whisper campaign’ for tough slogging in leadership effort
Candidate says the fact he’s from Quebec is being used against him by some party members<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outremont MP Tom Mulcair blames “a whisper campaign” and clever spinning by competitors for a perception he’s trailing Brian Topp in the NDP leadership contest.<\/p>\n

During a recent trip to Vancouver, the 57-year old lawyer and father of two told me: “The people who spin for Mr. Topp use the word ‘front-runner,’ as they have done from Day 1.<\/p>\n

“But there have been a fair number of polls so far and every one has put me ahead, so I’m happy with that.”<\/p>\n

Mulcair also cited “a whisper campaign by anonymous sources” about his having a bad temper and not being a team player. “My best calling card to answer that,” he said, “is there were 33 people standing on stage with me the day I announced my candidacy” on Oct. 13.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some leadership campaigns like to make a policy announcement every week. For Thomas Mulcair, it appears he had adopted a “complaint-a-week” strategy. The latest: NDP’s Mulcair blames ‘whisper campaign’ for tough slogging in leadership effortCandidate says the fact he’s from Quebec is being used against him by some party members Outremont MP Tom Mulcair blames […]<\/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\/3177"}],"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=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}