{"id":583408,"date":"2010-05-27T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011968018_referendum52.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:57:33","slug":"referendum-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/583408","title":{"rendered":"Referendum 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A \u2018make-work\u2019 project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reading \u201cAn honest debate\u201d [NWVoices, May 27] on Referendum 52, then \u201cBe honest with voters\u201d [Opinion, May 24], was an eerie reminder of the tremendous power that lobbyists have in taking away our money.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me if I misinterpret, but R-<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span>52 sounds like a \u201cmake-work\u201d project for the construction industry, which would increase the amount of taxes I would need to pay with little to gain.<\/p>\n<p>Do all of the schools in the state have mold and leaky roofs? Are none of them insulated? Why not just use the existing school-district maintenance funds to fix the mold or leaks as they occur \u2014or like in Bellevue, gradually replace the schools that are old and out-of-date?<\/p>\n<p>The eerie reminder: Living in a condo development, my daughter-in-law, along with all the other condo owners, must pay out approximately $40,000 each to replace the sheathing and siding. As I understand it, water leakage was found in some of the condos, and a state law forces them with the choice to either renovate<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Jim Spray, Bellevue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018make-work\u2019 project Reading \u201cAn honest debate\u201d [NWVoices, May 27] on Referendum 52, then \u201cBe honest with voters\u201d [Opinion, May 24], was an eerie reminder of the tremendous power that lobbyists have in taking away our money. Forgive me if I misinterpret, but R- 52 sounds like a \u201cmake-work\u201d project for the construction industry, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}