{"id":8655,"date":"2015-10-28T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/our-flawed-city-government\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:25:34","slug":"our-flawed-city-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/our-flawed-city-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Our flawed city government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>So our mayor and City Council are finally asking for our opinion on a city issue to ban safe and sane fireworks and send citizens to the reservation to buy unsafe and insane fireworks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Where were these advisory votes when the mayor and council &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>1. decided to sell off our beautiful golf course to a developer? 2. decided to cave in to business on the B&amp;O tax to fix our roads?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>3. decided to raise our garbage fees about 15 percent to fix our roads?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4. decided to raise their salaries?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5. decided to dump half a million dollars every year into a failed Kent business?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">6. decided to ignore our 55-percent yes vote on marijuana issues?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So far, all we\u2019ve gotten from our elected leaders is the middle digit on these issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s no wonder we have such a dismal voter turnout in Kent. It\u2019s obvious that these leaders have no idea what real representative government looks like.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><strong><em>\u2013\u00a0Gregory Worthing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So our mayor and City Council are finally asking for our opinion on a city issue to ban safe and sane fireworks and send citizens to the reservation to buy unsafe and insane fireworks.<\/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-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655"}],"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=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}