{"id":23162,"date":"2017-02-24T03:56:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2017-02-21T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:22:50","slug":"garfinkel-wins-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/02\/24\/garfinkel-wins-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfinkel wins nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>B.C. Liberal candidate Gabe Garfinkel. <em>(photo by Larry Garfinkel)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gabe Garfinkel was nominated Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19, by the B.C. Liberals in Vancouver-Fairview. The former aide to Premier Christy Clark defeated Elizabeth Ball, a Vancouver city councilor. He will be up against incumbent New Democrat George Heyman in the provincial election scheduled for May 9. Garfinkel credits support in the Jewish community for his nomination. \u201cI come from four generations in Vancouver-Fairview,\u201d he told the <em>Independent <\/em>after his victory. \u201cMy grandfather was the kosher butcher on 15th and Oak. My parents have lived here their whole lives and so have I. The community was instrumental in this nomination and I\u2019m so thankful for all their support. I cannot wait to serve the Jewish community in Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garfinkel was profiled in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishindependent.ca\/garfinkel-aims-for-victoria\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JI<\/em> Dec. 2<\/a>. The paper is inviting all Jewish candidates in the election to be profiled in advance of the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.C. Liberal candidate Gabe Garfinkel. (photo by Larry Garfinkel) Gabe Garfinkel was nominated Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19, by the B.C. Liberals in Vancouver-Fairview. The former aide to Premier Christy Clark defeated Elizabeth Ball, a Vancouver city councilor. He will be up against incumbent New Democrat George Heyman in the provincial election scheduled for May 9. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6422,4689,6778,1678,3597],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-british-columbia","tag-election","tag-garfinkel","tag-liberals","tag-politics"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}