{"id":10334,"date":"2018-05-04T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2018-05-04T12:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:49:27","slug":"ever-feel-like-montgomery-county-government-doesnt-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10334","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ever Feel Like Montgomery County Government Doesn&#8217;t Listen?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the title of the mailer sent out by Council District 1 candidate Meredith Wellington this week, which we reprint below.\u00a0 The remainder of Wellington&#8217;s message is clearly directed at opponents of development, an ancient political tradition in MoCo.\u00a0 But here is the thing: whether it&#8217;s fair or not &#8211; and we could make a case either way &#8211; pretty much everyone we talk to, regardless of their ideology, doesn&#8217;t believe the county adequately listens to them.\u00a0 That message, distilled of ideological connotation, will travel far and wide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"808\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-1.png 808w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-1-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-1-768x724.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-3.png 807w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-3-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-3-768x725.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-4.png 805w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-4-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-4-768x727.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-2.png 807w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-2-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-2-768x724.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-5.png 472w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wellington-First-Mailer-5-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. That&#8217;s the title of the mailer sent out by Council District 1 candidate Meredith Wellington this week, which we reprint below.\u00a0 The remainder of Wellington&#8217;s message is clearly directed at opponents of development, an ancient political tradition in MoCo.\u00a0 But here is the thing: whether it&#8217;s fair or not &#8211; and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ever Feel Like Montgomery County Government Doesn&#8217;t Listen?&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1547,2001],"class_list":["post-10334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-council-district-1","tag-council-district-1","tag-meredith-wellington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2GG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10340,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions\/10340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}