{"id":21120,"date":"2013-10-24T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/business-people-good-for-the-council\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:22:02","slug":"business-people-good-for-the-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/business-people-good-for-the-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Business people good for the council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A letter to the editor mentioned too many candidates running for office are business people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I think people with experience running a business should be elected. They know how to purchase supplies and prioritize spending or go out of business. Looking back at all the failed programs or projects Kent has failed on is a big reason business experience is needed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We need candidates who will fund roads, utilities, parks and police before funding all the feel good social programs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You should check out Jim Berrios&#8217; flyer to see his experiences before voting. It seems this is the kind of councilperson we need.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Gene Brenner<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter to the editor mentioned too many candidates running for office are business people.<\/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-21120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21120"}],"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=21120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21120"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}