{"id":8006,"date":"2010-01-29T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2010-01-29T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:58:45","slug":"lobbying-in-full-swing-to-replace-maid-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/lobbying-in-full-swing-to-replace-maid-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying in full swing to replace Maid boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2280623\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rules aimed at keeping the Niagara Parks Commission&#8217;s search for a boat-tour provider &#8220;above board&#8221; mean commissioners are to avoid contact with potential bidders -but the same rules wouldn&#8217;t disqualify a bidder who attempts to lobby members of the government agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has no consequences for anyone other than commissioners and senior staff,&#8221; said NPC general manager John Kernahan, after consulting with the &#8220;fairness commissioner,&#8221; one of three experts appointed to help the agency through a controversial bidding process that could result in a new company replacing the Maid of the Mist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Rules aimed at keeping the Niagara Parks Commission&#8217;s search for a boat-tour provider &#8220;above board&#8221; mean commissioners are to avoid contact with potential bidders -but the same rules wouldn&#8217;t disqualify a bidder who attempts to lobby members of the government agency. &#8220;This has no consequences for anyone other than commissioners&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[2884,2883,2871,2882,1227,88,99],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-bidder","tag-bidding-process","tag-boat-tour","tag-fairness-commissioner","tag-john-kernahan","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-niagara-parks-commission"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}