{"id":13745,"date":"2020-09-12T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13745"},"modified":"2020-10-31T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:29:00","slug":"post-editorial-vote-against-all-charter-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13745","title":{"rendered":"Post Editorial: Vote Against All Charter Amendments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Post’s editorial board has weighed in on MoCo’s competing charter amendments and recommends voting against all of them<\/a>. The Post wrote that both citizens’ initiatives – Robin Ficker’s amendment on taxes and the nine council district proposal – were bad ideas. But the Post also said, “Yet neither of the council\u2019s competing proposals is preferable to the status quo.” The Post’s verdict is to vote against all of the amendments and stick with the county’s current property tax system and council structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the Post’s editorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. The Washington Post’s editorial board has weighed in on MoCo’s competing charter amendments and recommends voting against all of them. The Post wrote that both citizens’ initiatives – Robin Ficker’s amendment on taxes and the nine council district proposal – were bad ideas. But the Post also said, “Yet neither of the … Continue reading Post Editorial: Vote Against All Charter Amendments<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,286,134,185],"tags":[1032,1463,2393,2324,1596,1539,937],"class_list":["post-13745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montgomery-county-council","category-robin-ficker","category-taxes","category-washington-post","tag-ballot-questions","tag-montgomery-county-council","tag-nine-districts-for-moco","tag-property-taxes","tag-robin-ficker","tag-taxes","tag-washington-post-2"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3zH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745","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=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13746,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions\/13746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}