{"id":22791,"date":"2018-11-03T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=22791"},"modified":"2018-11-03T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:55:52","slug":"letter-in-support-of-eric-roe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=22791","title":{"rendered":"Letter: In support of Eric Roe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Letters1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8454 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Letters1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>As the November 6<sup>th<\/sup> election approaches, I want to put in a good word for State Representative Eric Roe. \u00a0In an otherwise polarized and partisan election cycle, Eric Roe has proven that he\u2019s willing to put people above politics. That\u2019s why he\u2019ll have my vote.<\/p>\n<p>His leadership against unfair gerrymandering is probably the best example of his integrity. In a world where politicians seem so self-serving, Eric proposed a bill to take legislators out of the redistricting process and use a citizen commission to draw district boundary lines instead. He also declined the lavish pension and per diems offered to state reps.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I care about the education of our youth since they are the future of our country. \u00a0I read about the historic funding Rep. Roe provided for our schools, and I\u2019m impressed that he did it without raising taxes. \u00a0He also fought against raising the sales tax, the personal income tax, and taxes on everyday household items.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to hear that Rep. Roe was a co-sponsor on a domestic violence bill that would protect women and children by requiring abusive partners to give up their guns to law-enforcement authorities within 24 hours of being convicted of domestic abuse, instead of the previous 60 days they were given. \u00a0The law passed.\u00a0 Women are safer for it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Rep. Roe helped pass the \u201cStoneleigh Law,\u201d to protect our beautiful and historic open spaces from being seized by eminent domain to be built upon. \u00a0We have enough development where I live, and I for one want to protect our beautiful rolling hills and farms.<\/p>\n<p>Keep local politics local; don\u2019t let the noise at the national level distract you. Eric Roe deserves your vote on November 6<sup>th<\/sup>, and he\u2019ll certainly have mine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Kathy Pratt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>West Goshen\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: As the November 6th election approaches, I want to put in a good word for State Representative Eric Roe. \u00a0In an otherwise polarized and partisan election cycle, Eric Roe has proven that he\u2019s willing to put people above politics. That\u2019s why he\u2019ll have my vote. His leadership against unfair gerrymandering is probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6511,5525,5345],"class_list":["post-22791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-election-2018","tag-eric-roe","tag-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22792,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22791\/revisions\/22792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}