{"id":21220,"date":"2018-07-26T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21220"},"modified":"2018-07-26T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:42:22","slug":"ballards-election-statement-is-disingenuous-says-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/ballards-election-statement-is-disingenuous-says-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballard\u2019s election statement is \u201cdisingenuous,\u201d says reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Former MPP Chris Ballard confirms Mayoral bid, July 12)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was with incredulity I read in last week\u2019s Auroran that recently unemployed MPP Chris Ballard was announcing a mayoral run, casting our Town as some downtrodden community falling behind its GTA neighbours due to \u201cyears of political mismanagement.\u201d<br \/>\nDisingenuous to say the least.<br \/>\nMr. Ballard was a member of the first Council that he claims has lost its way.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to get Aurora back on course,\u201d he says without saying what course that is.<br \/>\nIn my opinion, having attended many Council and committee meetings over the past 18 months, the Town is \u201con course\u201d under Mayor Geoff Dawe\u2019s leadership.<br \/>\nAs Dawe put it in the same edition of The Auroran, \u201cAurora achieved the highest rate of job growth in York Region, attracted two major hotel investments, two corporate headquarters, a new post-secondary education program and was twice listed by business publications as one of the best places to live in Ontario.\u201d<br \/>\nAurora has been decidedly well served by Geoff Dawe as our Mayor. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Snape<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Former MPP Chris Ballard confirms Mayoral bid, July 12) It was with incredulity I read in last week\u2019s Auroran that recently unemployed MPP Chris Ballard was announcing a mayoral run, casting our Town as some downtrodden community falling behind its GTA neighbours due to \u201cyears of political mismanagement.\u201d Disingenuous to say the least. Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}