{"id":70124,"date":"2016-02-05T01:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T06:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70124"},"modified":"2016-02-05T02:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T07:04:07","slug":"new-anti-tax-manitoba-party-sees-interim-leader-taz-stuart-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/05\/new-anti-tax-manitoba-party-sees-interim-leader-taz-stuart-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"New anti tax Manitoba Party sees interim leader Taz Stuart step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70125\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taz-stuart.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70125\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taz-stuart.jpg\" alt=\"Taz Stuart quits from being the interim leader of the Manitoba Party. (Facebook Photo)\" width=\"453\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taz-stuart.jpg 453w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taz-stuart-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/taz-stuart-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taz Stuart quits post as interim leader of the Manitoba Party.<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/taz.stuart\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG\u2014Less than a month into the job, Taz Stuart says he is done with being the interim leader of the Manitoba Party and won&#8217;t be running in the April 19 election.<\/p>\n<p>The former city entomologist says once the paperwork clears, he will no longer be leader of the fledgling party.<\/p>\n<p>He says his life is too busy to dedicate the time to the election and organizing the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>He says he never intended to be the face of the party and planned on working more behind the scenes during the election, describing his appointment as interim leader as a necessity for paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>He was quick to add he has no problems with the party or president Gary Marshall, who plans to run for the party in Kildonan.<\/p>\n<p>The fledgling anti-tax, anti-government party announced Stuart as its interim leader and candidate for Fort Whyte last month.<\/p>\n<p>The party, which is still in the midst of applying for official party status, says it hopes to run at least 15 candidates in April&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Winnipeg Free Press)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG\u2014Less than a month into the job, Taz Stuart says he is done with being the interim leader of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-70124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}