{"id":21149,"date":"2011-02-25T17:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T22:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=21149"},"modified":"2011-02-25T17:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T22:57:49","slug":"canadian-conservatives-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/02\/25\/canadian-conservatives-whatever\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Conservatives: Whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/finley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21151\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/finley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/finley.jpg 800w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/finley-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Conservative senator Doug Finley: charged with election law violation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Four Conservatives, including two senators, have been charged with breaking federal election law on campaign spending.\u00a0 Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey dismissed the charges, saying, \u201cThis is an accounting issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That seems to be a pattern of behavior for conservatives everywhere these days: the law is for other people, particularly when it comes to any form of electoral malfeasance intended to gain or hold on to power.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just another accounting issue.<\/p>\n<p>Story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/tories-shrug-off-campaign-finance-charges-as-accounting-issue\/article1920834\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative senator Doug Finley: charged with election law violation Four Conservatives, including two senators, have been charged with breaking federal election law on campaign spending.\u00a0 Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey dismissed the charges, saying, \u201cThis is an accounting issue.\u201d That seems to be a pattern of behavior for conservatives everywhere these days: the law is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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