{"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":"<p>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.<br \/>\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.<br \/>\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<p><strong>Tom Callaghan<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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-8643","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\/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}]}}