{"id":13751,"date":"2015-03-18T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/living-hard-with-the-mayor-cooke-dream\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:25:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T15:25:40","slug":"living-hard-with-the-mayor-cooke-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/living-hard-with-the-mayor-cooke-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Living hard with the &#8216;Mayor Cooke Dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I agree with Mr. Richard Brandau&#8217;s letter (&#8220;Against pay raise for mayor&#8221;, March 13, Kent Reporter), but what do you expect when you attract people for the position of mayor at $102,000 like Suzette Cooke?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It is public knowledge that the mayor has a very extensive track record of spawning financial catastrophes with no accountability. Since moving to Kent in early 2014, I have found out rather quickly that there is little confidence and trust with the mayor of Kent and the citizens of Kent have paid dearly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Does she have any real &#8220;skin in the game?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The residents of Kent have voted and now are living the &#8220;Mayor Cooke Dream.&#8221; We all have to live with our choices, and it gets rather ugly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I am in favor for a higher salary for mayor, but let&#8217;s implement it with the next election, not now.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Susan St. Clair<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Mr. Richard Brandau&#8217;s letter (&#8220;Against pay raise for mayor&#8221;, March 13, Kent Reporter), but what do you expect when you attract people for the position of mayor at $102,000 like Suzette Cooke?<\/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-13751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751"}],"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=13751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13751"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}