
{"id":19311,"date":"2011-06-30T08:58:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=19311"},"modified":"2011-06-30T08:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:58:48","slug":"letter-thanks-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/06\/30\/letter-thanks-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Thanks, Gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Gov. Perdue, for standing on the right side of history by vetoing the voter ID bill. For more than 225 years, our elected officials, both Republican and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a8Democrat, have presumed our citizens to be fair and honest. Suddenly, we have a Republican majority in Raleigh that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust \u00e2\u20ac\u00a8our citizens, presumes they are not honest. That could be the only explanation for why Republicans passed a bill that disenfranchises seniors, college students, newly married\/divorced women and African-Americans. What are they afraid of? Republicans don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust the citizens who have entrusted them to serve. But we Democrats have always had faith in our people. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why we stand with Gov. Perdue and her veto of a thinly veiled voter-suppression bill that would roll back decades of progress of voting rights. To believe or not to believe, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even a question. <\/p>\n<p>Randolph Voller<br \/>\n<em>Chair of the Chatham County Democratic Party<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Gov. Perdue, for standing on the right side of history by vetoing the voter ID bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19402,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions\/19402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}