{"id":23301,"date":"2021-10-12T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23301"},"modified":"2021-10-12T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:22:27","slug":"weird-elections-out-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23301","title":{"rendered":"Weird elections out here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the rain continuing, I have a morning to fill so I thought I&#8217;d come here and do one of these after fixing the mower&#8230;as I get ready to fill in my absentee ballot for the election next month and read about the candidates who are running for city commission and mayor, I find it odd that the entire election is supposed to be non-partisan&#8230;which means none of the candidates can say whether they are a dem or repub&#8230;so that makes it a little more difficult for me to make sure I don&#8217;t vote for a repub&#8230;but, luckily, some of the candidates have gotten pretty clever in listing their endorsements that send a clear message of what party they belong to&#8230;.and I have mailers for every one of them laying on my coffee table to read and their websites, too, I mean would a repub ever be endorsed by the dem progressive caucus? Pretty sure they wouldn&#8217;t and there are others who want to make sure that everyone&#8217;s voice is heard&#8230;and others who are &#8220;business&#8221; minded&#8230;and you can pretty well guess what party he belongs to&#8230;it&#8217;s a little odd to have to do this deep dive to figure out who to vote for&#8230;but, I have the time and I know who I want to work with to continue the progress up here&#8230;now I just need to drop the ballot off this week&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the rain continuing, I have a morning to fill so I thought I&#8217;d come here and do one of these after fixing the mower&#8230;as I get ready to fill in my absentee ballot for the election next month and read about the candidates who are running for city commission and mayor, I find it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weird elections out here&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3048],"class_list":["post-23301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-muskegon-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23302,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions\/23302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}