{"id":912,"date":"2006-04-22T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=912"},"modified":"2006-04-22T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:20:00","slug":"the-leadership-race-on-everyones-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"The Leadership Race on Everyone&#8217;s Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, the Liberal leadership race has gotten a lot of ink and there&#8217;s a lot of buzz about Preston Manning and the provincial PC race out here.<\/p>\n<p>But, the real leadership race we&#8217;ve all been following has finally played itself out &#8211; the PEI New Democrats have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060422.wpei0422\/BNStory\/National\/home\">elected a new leader<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Prince Edward Island&#8217;s New Democrats have chosen a new leader.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Constable, a 26-year-old stage manager from Charlottetown, beat out 53-year-old Michael DesRoches, who works with child and family services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Constable says he received 29 votes to Mr. DesRoches&#8217;s 19 in the one-member-one-vote leadership convention in Summerside on Saturday.<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you read that right: <em>29-19.<\/em> In a one-member, one vote system. <em>29-19. <\/em>Needless to say, Mr. Constable has a bit of work to do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, the Liberal leadership race has gotten a lot of ink and there&#8217;s a lot of buzz about Preston Manning and the provincial PC race out here. But, the real leadership race we&#8217;ve all been following has finally played itself out &#8211; the PEI New Democrats have elected a new leader: Prince Edward Island&#8217;s New [&hellip;]<\/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-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}