{"id":1933,"date":"2011-05-05T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2011-05-05T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:40:29","slug":"layton-inadvertently-smacks-a-few-of-his-new-mps-with-debate-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1933","title":{"rendered":"Layton Inadvertently Smacks a Few of His New MPs With Debate Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the English language debate, Jack Layton dealt a death blow to Michael Ignatieff by saying something to the effect of &#8220;If you want a promotion, you need to show up for work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How many of his new Quebec MPs didn&#8217;t campaign a single stitch?  How many did not even show up in their riding during the election?  <\/p>\n<p>Unless they have $150,000 a year jobs now, many just got a promotion without showing up for work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just saying&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The real losers here are the constituents who will have poor representation by someone who does not understand the local issues.  But they are also the ones who did the voting so it seems they are stuck with their own bad decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the English language debate, Jack Layton dealt a death blow to Michael Ignatieff by saying something to the effect of &#8220;If you want a promotion, you need to show up for work.&#8221; How many of his new Quebec MPs didn&#8217;t campaign a single stitch? How many did not even show up in their riding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-shinanigans","category-elections","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}