{"id":877,"date":"2006-04-01T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=877"},"modified":"2006-04-01T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T07:15:00","slug":"the-king-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"The King Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re under an hour away from the results of the PC leadership review vote. I tend to think the fact that they’re announcing it at midnight means that Ralph isn’t expecting a thunderous show of support. Until then, I encourage everyone to take a look at this quote from Ralph tonight, which we’ll file under “black pot”:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSuch an era seemed unattainable for so many years under the arrogant and neglectful federal Liberals,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> 55<\/a>%. Ralph is toast. Time for yet another leadership race…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

THE MORNING AFTER:<\/em><\/strong> My hunch is that Ralph isn’t in great shape this morning, but I certainly feel fine. I would have actually preferred that he stay on since the longer he stayed, the more damage we’d see done to the provincial PCs. And, if nothing else, he’s a damn entertaining guy. But I certainly won’t shed any tears over his demise.<\/p>\n

Despite all Klein has done, the only<\/em> way to explain such an incredibly low number is that the Jim Dinning people made it clear to their delegates that it was time to gas Klein. They were obviously a bit more discrete about it than Lyle Oberg, but Dinning must have got tired of waiting and decided to go for the jugular. <\/p>\n

So thanks for the memories Ralph – let the blood letting begin! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re under an hour away from the results of the PC leadership review vote. I tend to think the fact that they’re announcing it at midnight means that Ralph isn’t expecting a thunderous show of support. Until then, I encourage everyone to take a look at this quote from Ralph tonight, which we’ll file under […]<\/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-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}