{"id":382,"date":"2005-06-19T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=382"},"modified":"2005-06-19T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-19T19:27:00","slug":"top-of-the-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Top of the Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T0m Olsen wrote up his MLA report cards in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgary\/calgaryherald\/index.html\">Herald<\/a>. With all the hijinx in Ottawa I haven&#8217;t been following the legislature as closely as usual this session, so I won&#8217;t critique his rankings that closely, except to say I think he was a little hard on the the three Calgary Liberal MLAs. If anyone who has been paying close attention to the happenings in Edmonton wants to comment on his rankings (I&#8217;m looking at you <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.blogspot.com\/\">Daveberta<\/a>), go right ahead and do so.<\/p>\n<p>So, here are the highlights from Tom Olsen&#8217;s MLA rankings:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Leaders<\/strong><br \/>Ralph Klein: C-<br \/>Kevin Taft: A-<br \/>Brian Mason: A<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alberta Alliance Caucus<\/strong><br \/>Paul Hinman: B<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leadership Contenders<\/strong><br \/>Ted Morton: B<br \/>Lyle Oberg: C-<br \/>Dave Hancock: C-<br \/>Ed Stelmach: B-<br \/>Gary Mar: C<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Three Amigos<\/strong><br \/>Dave Taylor: B-<br \/>Harry Chase: C<br \/>David Swann: D<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Notables<\/strong><br \/>Harvey Cenaiko: A-<br \/>Ron Stevens: B+<br \/>Iris Evans: B<br \/>Shirley McClellan: D<br \/>Hung Pham: D-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T0m Olsen wrote up his MLA report cards in today&#8217;s Herald. With all the hijinx in Ottawa I haven&#8217;t been following the legislature as closely as usual this session, so I won&#8217;t critique his rankings that closely, except to say I think he was a little hard on the the three Calgary Liberal MLAs. If [&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\/382"}],"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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}