{"id":8643,"date":"2014-10-22T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2014-10-22T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:11:40","slug":"actions-showed-serious-attack-on-democratic-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/actions-showed-serious-attack-on-democratic-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Actions showed \u201cserious attack\u201d on democratic principles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am writing in response to letters supporting Councillor Gaertner and Councillor Gallo and ridiculing Richard Johnson. I do not know any of these individuals personally, but I do know their records.
\nBoth Gallo and Gaertner supported a SLAPP lawsuit using taxpayer funds to intimidate a private citizen. This is a serious attack on the principles on which a democracy is based.
\nIf you want to give our representatives free rein to abuse the power of their office, by all means vote for these two. I value my democratic freedoms and I won\u2019t be supporting them.<\/p>\n

Tom Callaghan
\nAurora
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I am writing in response to letters supporting Councillor Gaertner and Councillor Gallo and ridiculing Richard Johnson. I do not know any of these individuals personally, but I do know their records. Both Gallo and Gaertner supported a SLAPP lawsuit using taxpayer funds to intimidate a private citizen. This is a serious attack on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2fp","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 03:25:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643","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=8643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}