{"id":14807,"date":"2009-10-27T17:10:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T00:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/open-apology-to-mayor-cooke\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:30:29","slug":"open-apology-to-mayor-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/open-apology-to-mayor-cooke\/","title":{"rendered":"Open apology to Mayor Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I offer my sincerest apology to Mayor Cooke. In a public statement I made at the Scenic Hill Neighborhood Council Candidate Forum, on Thursday, Oct. 15t at the Senior Center.<\/p>\n<p>I referred to bad past practices by the city of Kent. I failed to convey they were the practices of a FORMER administration, not Mayor Cooke\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Someone approached me after the forum wanting to know why I thought Mayor Cooke\u2019s administration was so bad. This is when I realized I had not been clear in my statement. I made this statement in a public forum, so, I feel, I owe Mayor Cooke a public apology.<\/p>\n<p>I, in fact, think that Mayor Cooke has done a superior job of making city government more accessible and responsive. I applaud the hiring of Toni Azzola, neighborhood program coordinator\/ liaison. Toni does an awesome job of connecting the neighborhoods! My own North Park Neighborhood Council deals on a regular basis with the City of Kent through Toni. Through the program, we have also come together as neighbors and community. Kudos!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I like Kent Station too!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pam Newcomer<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I offer my sincerest apology to Mayor Cooke. In a public statement I made at the Scenic Hill Neighborhood Council Candidate Forum, on Thursday, Oct. 15t at the Senior Center.<\/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-14807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807"}],"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=14807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14807"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}