{"id":418,"date":"2005-07-29T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=418"},"modified":"2005-07-29T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T23:33:00","slug":"volpe-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Volpe Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had two readers e-mail me in response to the leadership post, with comments which I loosely translated to be saying: \u201cJoe Volpe for Liberal leader? I thought the Liberals were against euthanasia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, yes, Mr. Volpe appears to be serious about running. And since nothing short of a Jean Lapierre leadership run would be more hilarious than seeing Big Joe throw his hat into the ring, I\u2019ve given his campaign team their first eight slogans, free of charge:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I\u2019m a serious candidate. Don\u2019t laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoyal to the leader since 2004\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing in Cabinet has nothing to do with my flip-flop on gay marriage\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly he can defeat the Klansmen\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, if Belinda Stronach is a serious leadership contender, why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRomanian Strippers at every campaign stop!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only will I ban the Sopranos in Canada, I\u2019ll ban Joey!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KINDA AN UPDATE<\/strong><\/em>: As Anonymous mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/unofficial-race.html\">the other leadership thread<\/a>, I&#8217;ve also heard the rumour that Volpe has never worn a pair of jeans in his life. Apparently that&#8217;s why he refused to don them when he came out to the Stampede. And you think Harper has image problems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two readers e-mail me in response to the leadership post, with comments which I loosely translated to be saying: \u201cJoe Volpe for Liberal leader? I thought the Liberals were against euthanasia.\u201d But, yes, Mr. Volpe appears to be serious about running. And since nothing short of a Jean Lapierre leadership run would be [&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\/418"}],"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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}