{"id":78630,"date":"2017-06-04T02:22:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/pat-stogran-quits-ndp-leadership-race-slamming-party-for-selfish-incompetent-politics.html"},"modified":"2017-06-04T02:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T02:22:15","slug":"pat-stogran-quits-ndp-leadership-race-slamming-party-for-selfish-incompetent-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/pat-stogran-quits-ndp-leadership-race-slamming-party-for-selfish-incompetent-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Pat Stogran quits NDP leadership race, slamming party for &#8216;selfish, incompetent politics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the candidates for the federal NDP leadership race is quitting, blaming party insiders who he says don&#8217;t want to see him win.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Stogran posted a video Saturday on YouTube, saying the inside workings of the NDP are &#8220;fundamentally flawed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fight to take on politics incorporated while also trying to take on the insiders of a political party that has no desire to see me win has proven insurmountable,&#8221; he said in the five-minute video.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He also said the party has put &#8220;major obstacles&#8221; in place for candidates trying to grow the party&#8217;s base from the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>Stogran is a former military officer who served in Afghanistan and said serving for the greater good was his &#8220;calling in life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>NDP leadership debate brings 2 new candidates to the race<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Former vets ombudsman considers NDP leadership bid, criticizes &#8216;elite&#8217; Liberals and Tories<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But he said, &#8220;As I enter my golden years, I came to the conclusion that my love for family far outweighs my love for politics, especially selfish, incompetent politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stogran said the NDP will never form a government until the party itself is reformed and he doesn&#8217;t see any possibility of reform.<\/p>\n<p>He said he resigns with &#8220;huge sadness&#8221; from the race, and thanked his supporters and campaign team who stood behind him in his effort &#8220;to defeat politics incorporated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are now five official candidates in the race to succeed current leader Tom Mulcair, who didn&#8217;t survive a leadership review.<\/p><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/pat-stogran-quits-ndp-leadership-race-1.4145044?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the candidates for the federal NDP leadership race is quitting, blaming party insiders who he says don&#8217;t want to see him win. Pat Stogran posted a video Saturday on YouTube, saying the inside workings of the NDP are &#8220;fundamentally flawed.&#8221; &#8220;The fight to take on politics incorporated while also trying to take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-78630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}