{"id":135,"date":"2004-05-23T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9080ef68-0c35-44fe-8cf7-f1ec58925cb7"},"modified":"2012-12-16T22:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T03:41:53","slug":"election-posters-up-prematurely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Election posters up prematurely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Letter to the Editor of the Montreal Gazette.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The federal liberals have made flouting the rules an art form, as demonstrated by the sponsorship scandal, Radwanski\u2019s expense accounts, and the Shawinigate affair. Now, in Westmount, liberal incumbent Lucienne Robillard\u2019s overeager campaign team are breaking the rules by erecting election posters even before an election has been called.<br \/>\nI call upon Mme Robillard to do the right thing by having her team take down the posters immediately and, as reparation, not put them back for a week. Before she gets my vote, Mme Robillard needs to demonstrate that she has not lost her moral compass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor of the Montreal Gazette. The federal liberals have made flouting the rules an art form, as demonstrated by the sponsorship scandal, Radwanski\u2019s expense accounts, and the Shawinigate affair. Now, in Westmount, liberal incumbent Lucienne Robillard\u2019s overeager campaign team are breaking the rules by erecting election posters&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}