{"id":11182,"date":"2014-10-01T16:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T23:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/we-need-the-best\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:10:29","slug":"we-need-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/we-need-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"We need the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>We need to have quality and honest representation in Olympia. Our 33rd District representative, Mia Gregerson, had a mailing that stated the mayor of Des Moines endorsed her. The mayor publicly said he had not.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I checked out the endorsement list and found that the Kent Regional Fire Authority endorsed her. I called the Kent Fire chief and he said they had not. The chief said he would look into it. About 15 minutes later, Gregerson called me and said that had been a &#8220;typo error.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I later found out that she had &#8220;violated RCW 42.17A.130 on multiple occasions by using the facilities of the city of SeaTac to send and receive emails that assisted the 2009 campaigns of candidates for the SeaTac City Council.&#8221; The Public Disclosure Commission fined her $400 for this violation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Again, we need a quality and honest representative in Olympia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Don Mason<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to have quality and honest representation in Olympia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}