{"id":5798,"date":"2014-05-28T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/coverage-on-cooke-is-factual-informative\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:45:30","slug":"coverage-on-cooke-is-factual-informative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/coverage-on-cooke-is-factual-informative\/","title":{"rendered":"Coverage on Cooke is factual, informative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I wasn&#8217;t very surprised to read the responses written in regard to the May 9 article about Mayor Suzette Cooke&#8217;s financial troubles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>She has a fairly solid fan base as evidenced by her reelection. However, I don&#8217;t see the Kent Reporter article as an attack on the mayor in any way at all. The story was based on simple undeniable facts and not conjecture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sometimes the facts can be unpleasant, but they&#8217;re still facts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The mayor is a public figure and as such is subject to public scrutiny. Every constituent has a right to know who their elected officials truly are. To not report the facts, good or bad, would be a disservice to the readership and community at large.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent Reporter did not insinuate that Mayor Cooke can&#8217;t do the job. In fact, it quoted others as saying that her financial hardship should not interfere with her ability to carry out her civic responsibilities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There are others on the other side of the street who would disagree. It doesn&#8217;t matter. What does matter is that the Kent Reporter continues to inform and educate so we may draw our own conclusions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Gary Wallace<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t very surprised to read the responses written in regard to the May 9 article about Mayor Suzette Cooke&#8217;s financial troubles.<\/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-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798"}],"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=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}