{"id":3283,"date":"2012-04-09T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:26:32","slug":"alberta-votes-day-15-paging-stockwell-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3283","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Votes Day 15: Paging Stockwell Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-S_lnNdre-gA\/T4MtXwGP_bI\/AAAAAAAADEQ\/_rY7nXN2EF8\/s1600\/stock%2Bwetsuit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729473037016759730\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 186px; height: 244px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-S_lnNdre-gA\/T4MtXwGP_bI\/AAAAAAAADEQ\/_rY7nXN2EF8\/s320\/stock%2Bwetsuit.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLike Stephen Harper in 2006, Danielle Smith now has 5 priorities, highlighted by an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildrose.ca\/pledge\/alberta-accountability-act\/\">Accountability Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, in proposing citizen-initiated referendum, Smith evoked memories of an equally photogenic Albertan leading an upstart party. Remember this?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CdXjUCX6ONw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s referendum idea has a higher threshold than Stockwell&#8217;s, but is equally wreckless. After all, she has <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6uczr3q\">left the door open<\/a> for a referendum on issues such as abortion funding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CALGARY &#8211; Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith left open the possibility Friday that the issue of abortion funding could come forward through a citizen-initiated vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith, who has previously expressed support for the idea of delisting abortion as a provincially funded procedure, dodged questions about whether she still holds that view.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who takes cues from Stockwell Day deserves to be ridiculed for it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/danielle-smith-petition\/\">I therefore urge everyone to sign this online petition, urging Danielle Smith to change her name to &#8220;Stockwell Smith&#8221;, so that she can properly honour her mentor.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; clear: both; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 1px 1px medium; border-style: solid solid none; border-color: #cdced0 #cdced0 currentColor; width: 200px; height: 145px; background-color: #e9eaeb;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/widget\/view\/420322\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-width: medium 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: currentColor #364950 #364950; padding: 7px 2px 2px; width: 196px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: -5px; background-color: #364950;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/\">Petition<\/a> by <a style=\"color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\">iPetitions.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n  var _gaq = _gaq  []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-307455-4']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'ipetitions.com']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowHash', 'false']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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After all, she has left the door [&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":[950,49],"tags":[1055,1065],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-alberta-election","category-alberta-politics","tag-danielle-smith","tag-stockwell-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","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=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}