{"id":6665,"date":"2014-01-15T17:11:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2014-01-15T17:11:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:11:51","slug":"how-many-tory-mps-does-it-take-to-screw-up-a-light-bulb-fundraising-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=6665","title":{"rendered":"How many Tory MPs does it take to screw up a light bulb fundraising campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s still January, but we have an early contender for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ottawa\/Tory+raising+money+fight+bulb+party+enacted\/9391222\/story.html\"> most awesome political story of 2014<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tory MP raising money to fight bulb ban her party enacted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 A Conservative MP\u2019s campaign against her own government\u2019s ban of incandescent light bulbs is directing the donations it receives to a Conservative riding association and giving contributors tax receipts for political contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Renfrew \u2014 Nipissing \u2014 Pembroke MP Cheryl Gallant is leading the campaign against the Conservative government\u2019s policy to phase out traditional light bulbs beginning this month.<\/p>\n<p>The website, stopthelightbulbban.ca, solicits donations to the cause of saving traditional bulbs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you heard that right. Cheryl Gallant is asking people to donate money to a Conservative riding association&#8230;to fight a Conservative Party policy.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is going to be met with ridicule by some, but Gallant may just have stumbled upon a brilliant fundraising tactic for the Tories. For too long they&#8217;ve been limiting their pool of donors to individuals who <em>agree <\/em>with them, thereby overlooking the every growing number of Canadians who can&#8217;t stand what the Harper government has done.<\/p>\n<p>So keep your eyes open for future fundraising campaigns such as: &#8220;<em>Donate $5 to help restore the long-form Census!<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Fight the appointment of unelected Senators &#8211; send us $90,000 today!<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s still January, but we have an early contender for the most awesome political story of 2014: Tory MP raising money to fight bulb ban her party enacted OTTAWA \u2014 A Conservative MP\u2019s campaign against her own government\u2019s ban of incandescent light bulbs is directing the donations it receives to a Conservative riding [&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":[983],"tags":[1445,1446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665"}],"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=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6667,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}