{"id":366,"date":"2007-09-27T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2007-09-27T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T19:50:04","slug":"david-shiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"David Shiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Shiner is currently a city councillor for Toronto, and running in the provincial election as a conservative (<em>pthew<\/em>!). While campaigning, he&#8217;s not really focusing on his job as a councillor, and it has become the custom in Toronto politics for councillors to go on unpaid leave when campaigning in other elections. Shiner didn&#8217;t, and for the past few weeks has continued to collect his rather substantial salary, raising a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/OntarioElection\/article\/261236\">minor controversy<\/a>. Attempting to make things right,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Shiner also announced the pay he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s received since the election campaign began Sept. 10 will go to charity. His unpaid leave of absence will begin when he formally submits a letter to the city, which he expected to do Thursday or Friday.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That really isn&#8217;t good enough. The city of Toronto is <em>hurting <\/em>for cash at the moment, it&#8217;s all over the news lately. The money should go back into the city coffers, not to some random charity (and in that case, I wouldn&#8217;t be too surprised if he got a tax receipt for the donation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Shiner is currently a city councillor for Toronto, and running in the provincial election as a conservative (pthew!). While campaigning, he&#8217;s not really focusing on his job as a councillor, and it has become the custom in Toronto politics for councillors to go on unpaid leave when campaigning in other elections. Shiner didn&#8217;t, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}