{"id":504,"date":"2015-12-16T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T23:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/voters-have-spoken-stop-wasting-time\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:05:37","slug":"voters-have-spoken-stop-wasting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/voters-have-spoken-stop-wasting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters have spoken; stop wasting time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"p1\">I read with interest City Council President Dana Ralph\u2019s reasoning\/careful steps to the voters\u2019 rejection of fireworks in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">She says the council needs to discuss all aspects of a ban, and give the public time to comment. Hello \u2013 haven\u2019t we, the public \u201ccommented\u201d through our vote? How much \u201ctime\u201d do you want? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">She goes on to say the council wants to be \u201cdeliberate and thoughtful\u201d as we make this important policy change.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Wouldn\u2019t it be great if the Kent City Council would apply this very reasoning\/timeline when raising our property\/sales taxes, license tab fees, and awarding a huge raise and cash payout for the outgoing <\/span>mayor? Shouldn\u2019t these wait for a year or more also?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Do your jobs, listen to the voters, and ban fireworks for 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Richard Schurk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read with interest City Council President Dana Ralph\u2019s reasoning\/careful steps to the voters\u2019 rejection of fireworks in Kent.<\/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-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}