{"id":3233,"date":"2012-01-27T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2012-01-27T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:54:00","slug":"bonus-twia-snelgrove-gone-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3233","title":{"rendered":"Bonus TWIA &#8211; Snelgrove Gone. Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Cz9Jq5vuOK4\/TyL1QqYIQAI\/AAAAAAAAC6s\/6XaJvPiXnDU\/s1600\/snelgrove2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702389744806674434\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Cz9Jq5vuOK4\/TyL1QqYIQAI\/AAAAAAAAC6s\/6XaJvPiXnDU\/s320\/snelgrove2.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Alison Redford looks to have her first caucus defection on her hands, as former Finance Minister Lloyd Snelgrove is out, according to Redford&#8217;s Chief of Staff:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-T9XLHGnxJYc\/TyL1YCWCnwI\/AAAAAAAAC64\/GLBAdFwgaTY\/s1600\/snelgrove.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 55px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702389871499452162\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-T9XLHGnxJYc\/TyL1YCWCnwI\/AAAAAAAAC64\/GLBAdFwgaTY\/s400\/snelgrove.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While losing your first MLA is never fun, this shouldn&#8217;t dampen Redford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/this-week-in-alberta-flanagan-gets-back.html\">momentum<\/a> or end her honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Snelgrove has been critical of Redford since she was elected leader, and announced he wouldn&#8217;t be running again shortly after he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/news\/Some+Alberta+cabinet+ministers+shows+Redford+swearing\/5521100\/story.html?cid=megadrop_story\">left out of her first Cabinet<\/a>. Just yesterday, he <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edmontonjournal.com\/2012\/01\/25\/snelgrove-strikes-again-and-big-week-for-pc-nominations\/\">criticized<\/a> Redford&#8217;s province-wide listening tour &#8211; when an MLA criticizes his leader for something as innocuous as that, you know he&#8217;s nearing the end of the line.<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously not something Redford wanted to deal with, but in terms of PC infighting, this pales in comparison to some of the blowups we&#8217;ve seen in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Redford looks to have her first caucus defection on her hands, as former Finance Minister Lloyd Snelgrove is out, according to Redford&#8217;s Chief of Staff: While losing your first MLA is never fun, this shouldn&#8217;t dampen Redford&#8217;s momentum or end her honeymoon. After all, Snelgrove has been critical of Redford since she was elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}