{"id":27251,"date":"2017-03-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/congressman-is-out-of-touch\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:30:00","slug":"congressman-is-out-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/congressman-is-out-of-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman is out of touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Reichert needs to be reminded that the he was elected to represent his constituents. He refuses to hold town hall meetings and also complains when we call his office.<\/p>\n<p>He readily meets with large groups of donors and insurance people, but refuses to meet with his constituents. He claims that town hall meetings end up as shouting matches. How would he know? He has never held one.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he doesn&rsquo;t want to meet with us because he knows he has been voting against our best interests.<\/p>\n<p>You can&rsquo;t have it both ways, Dave. Do the job you were elected to do. Represent the 8th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Pat Larson <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Reichert needs to be reminded that the he was elected to represent his constituents. He refuses to hold town hall meetings and also complains when we call his office.<\/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-27251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251"}],"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=27251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27251"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}