{"id":8959,"date":"2010-09-30T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2010-09-30T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:07:16","slug":"union-tribune-picks-hall-packard-and-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8959","title":{"rendered":"Union-Tribune Picks Hall, Packard, and Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When newspapers write opinion pieces it becomes immediately apparent who really runs their businesses. For instance, today, the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/30\/hall-packard-and-douglas-for-carlsbad\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong> released their picks for Carlsbad&#8217;s mayoral and city council races. For mayor they break it down by Prop G:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there\u2019s an issue that defines the two [Hall and Blackburn], it is Proposition G, a measure to lock recent pension reforms into the city charter and to prevent any increases in employee retirement benefits without a vote of the people. Hall has co-signed the argument for Prop. G. Blackburn, a former police sergeant, opposes it. That speaks volumes as to which each candidate would put first, the people or the city\u2019s labor unions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And for City Council they pick <strong>Mark Packard<\/strong> (because he&#8217;s already on the council) and <strong>Farrah Douglas<\/strong> (because she made a respectable showing in her first try for office two years ago). At least we agree with one of their picks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/30\/hall-packard-and-douglas-for-carlsbad\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When newspapers write opinion pieces it becomes immediately apparent who really runs their businesses. For instance, today, the San Diego Union-Tribune released their picks for Carlsbad&#8217;s mayoral and city council races. For mayor they break it down by Prop G: If there\u2019s an issue that defines the two [Hall and Blackburn], it is Proposition G, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}