{"id":8138,"date":"2013-10-24T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/vote-to-reelect-mayor-cooke\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T05:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:50:28","slug":"vote-to-reelect-mayor-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/vote-to-reelect-mayor-cooke\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote to reelect Mayor Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Suzette Cooke is a proven leader who cares about people. She worked on leading all the cities impacted by the possible flooding of the Green River by placing sandbags to prevent flooding. She has lowered crime and greatly improved police service.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cooke started the Neighborhood Councils program in Kent, so our whole city is involving young people to work together to improve their own neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In tough economic times over the last four years, she has worked closely with the City Council to reduce staffing and city expenditures while successfully maintaining high levels of service. Most importantly, Cooke has been the people&#8217;s mayor where she has been tirelessly out in our city working with all parts of our amazingly diverse population and in all areas of our city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We are the sixth largest city in Washington, but we have the best mayor. I&#8217;ve lived in Kent since 1933, so I have experienced a lot of Kent mayors. Suzette Cooke is clearly Kent&#8217;s best mayor in my 80 years of being part of this city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Len McCaughan<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzette Cooke is a proven leader who cares about people. She worked on leading all the cities impacted by the possible flooding of the Green River by placing sandbags to prevent flooding. She has lowered crime and greatly improved police service.<\/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-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138"}],"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=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}