{"id":8241,"date":"2017-07-13T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2017-07-13T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:01:22","slug":"translating-george-leventhal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8241","title":{"rendered":"Translating George Leventhal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJYsy3yh_zM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our county needs new leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please ignore that I was elected to the first of four terms on the County Council in 2002, and served twice as Council President.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We need an executive who plays a hands-on role . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t like Ike Leggett.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . in addressing the challenges that we face [traffic, school overcrowding, and affordable housing] and who also understands that the challenges that we face are connected to our success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please forget that these same problems existed when I joined the Council 15 years ago. Their continuation is due to the amazing job that I&#8217;ve done addressing them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have a lot of traffic and we need to address that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please ignore that I was elected as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/maryland-politics.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/end-gridlock-team-council-at-large-2002.html\">End Gridlock<\/a> slate in 2002. (In 2002, <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_XQdBajgEN60\/TJSklIttH_I\/AAAAAAAAFZI\/GW8-pj-5bAI\/s1600\/EG+3.JPG\">End Gridlock flyers declared<\/a> \u201cour citizens are drowning in traffic\u201d and promised \u201cbold action now.\u201d)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We do need to meet each of these challenges and I\u2019ve worked on all of them for fifteen years as a councilmember and I think I have a good understanding of the leadership that\u2019s necessary to take us into the next decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please ignore what I just said. Our county needs experienced leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our county needs new leadership. Please ignore that I was elected to the first of four terms on the County Council in 2002, and served twice as Council President. We need an executive who plays a hands-on role . . . I don\u2019t like Ike Leggett. . . . in addressing the challenges that we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Translating George Leventhal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[1464],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-leventhal","tag-george-leventhal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-28V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8244,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions\/8244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}