{"id":732,"date":"2006-01-21T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=732"},"modified":"2006-01-21T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T19:33:00","slug":"calgary-grit-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Grit Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A lot of other blogs are rolling out their candidate<\/a> endorsements<\/a>, so I figured I’d jump into the mix. After reviewing all of the 308<\/strike> 307 Liberal candidates coast to coast, I have decided to officially endorse Bruce Benson from Selkirk-Interlake.<\/p>\n

Mr. Benson has been making a name for himself with the media this election. Instead of door knocking, phoning, and meeting voters, Mr. Benson has decided to spend the election snowshoeing across his riding<\/a>. I for one applaud Mr. Benson. Too many politicians are obsessed with the crass act of trying to reach voters; Mr. Benson has taken politics back to its roots, reminding us that what it’s really all about.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the highlight quotes from CPAC and Global stories I’ve seen on Mr. Benson over the past few days:<\/p>\n

“I respect him for what he’s doing. I don’t really understand what it has to do with policy though.”<\/em>
-Voter in his riding<\/p>\n

“Couldn’t your time be better spent…meeting voters?”<\/em>
-CPAC interviewer<\/p>\n

Interviewer: “Are you dejected that polls show you under 10% in this riding?”<\/em>
Bruce Benson: “No, real candidates face adversity. You don’t quit when you’re down in the polls. You don’t quit when your feet are sore<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Hear, hear. All too many candidates who try to snowshoe across their ridings, give up when their feet get sore – but not Bruce. Because of this, I am very pleased to endorse Bruce Benson as the next MP in Selkirk-Interlake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of other blogs are rolling out their candidate endorsements, so I figured I’d jump into the mix. After reviewing all of the 308 307 Liberal candidates coast to coast, I have decided to officially endorse Bruce Benson from Selkirk-Interlake. Mr. Benson has been making a name for himself with the media this election. […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}