{"id":4210,"date":"2012-10-26T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T17:41:58","slug":"olp-leadership-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"OLP Leadership Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Federal Liberal leadership aspirants are free to subject their candidacy to a year-long striptease before declaring, Ontario Liberals<\/a> do not have the luxury of time. With the membership cut-off in just four weeks, there’s little time to play coy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yasir Naqvi mulled it over for a few days before deciding to bide his time for a future bid<\/a>. This week, Dwight Duncan<\/a> and Chris Bentley<\/a> both announced they would not be candidates for the leadership – or the next election. Both decisions are understandable given the amount of time these men have spent in politics, and the baggage they would carry into a leadership race.<\/p>\n

On the other side, Sandra Pupatello has all but confirmed she will run<\/a>, and all signs point to her being the frontrunner. <\/p>\n


<\/code>Declared<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

None<\/em><\/p>\n


<\/code>Likely<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Sandra Pupatello<\/p>\n


<\/code>Call me Maybe<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Kathleen Wynne
\nMichael Bryant
\nGeorge Smitherman
\nGerard Kennedy
\nCharles Sousa
\nEric Hoskins
\nGlen Murray
\nDeb Matthews
\nDavid Caplan
\nBrad Duguid
\nJohn Wilkinson
\nDavid Orazietti<\/p>\n


<\/code>Taking a Pass<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Yasir Naqvi<\/del>
\nDwight Duncan<\/del>
\nChris Bentley<\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Federal Liberal leadership aspirants are free to subject their candidacy to a year-long striptease before declaring, Ontario Liberals do not have the luxury of time. With the membership cut-off in just four weeks, there’s little time to play coy. Yasir Naqvi mulled it over for a few days before deciding to bide his time […]<\/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":[1270,55],"tags":[1284,1281,1272,1282,1288,1283,1273,1277,1083,1004,1287,1285,1275,1276,1274,1279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210"}],"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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}