{"id":31256,"date":"2017-11-03T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/berrios-equipped-to-be-mayor\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T15:30:00","slug":"berrios-equipped-to-be-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/berrios-equipped-to-be-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Berrios equipped to be mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Berrios is the best choice for mayor as he has the best business experience.<\/p>\n<p>Example of his integrity: The City Council passed taxes &#8211; garbage and B&#038;O &#8211; on homeowners and businesses to fix roads. During the first two years of this tax, the council spun off $8 million to pay for other projects. The next year Dana Ralph stated she wants to use road taxes for other projects. Berrios said, &ldquo;We promised the money would be used to improve Kent&rsquo;s streets. We should not be using bait-and-switch tactics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kent has become one of the largest welfare cities in the state, with a high crime rate.<\/p>\n<p>If you move from Renton to Kent, your car insurance will go up.<\/p>\n<p>We need Mr. Berrios&rsquo; business experience to try and dig us out of this big expensive mess Kent&rsquo;s in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Gene Bremner<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Berrios is the best choice for mayor as he has the best business experience.<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31256"}],"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=31256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31256"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}