{"id":64390,"date":"2015-10-30T23:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64390"},"modified":"2015-10-30T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T21:50:45","slug":"supports-rapasadi-for-madison-county-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=64390","title":{"rendered":"Supports Rapasadi for Madison County Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"letterhead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58702\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg\" alt=\"letters-to-the-editor.image_\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">(Cazenovia, NY &#8211; Oct. 2015) I\u2019m an old white guy. I\u2019ve been a registered Republican since I quit peace marching in Washington and started my business. I should be supporting the Republican candidate for Madison County judge. His supporters include lawyers that have represented me in obtaining a DBA, a divorce and an adoption. Another was a customer, and another a golf acquaintance at Seven Oaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">But I\u2019m supporting Kathy Rapasadi, and I am doing this enthusiastically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">I have known about Rapasadi for years, but only met her last Monday night. I know about her diligent work on behalf of clients and the people of Madison County. The most important role, in my opinion, of a county judge is family court. There, the kids who are in trouble, or surrounded by trouble, are tumbled into the legal system. They rely on judges to remove them from dangerous homes and parents. They also need judges to try to keep other families intact. It is both sides of the same coin, but relies on more than a simple toss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">This is where Ms. Rapasadi\u2019s true experience becomes important. Seventeen years as an assistant district attorney, more than two decades in private practice, and, yes, it\u2019s also where her being a woman is important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">As a conservative Republican, I fume every time a liberal plays the \u201cwar on women\u201d card, but in this election, the \u201cinexperience card\u201d is being played on both women on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">My life is filled with strong women. I am glad that I have had the pleasure to meet one more. Vote for the qualified candidate, Kathleen Rapasadi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ended\"><strong>Richard Brown, Cazenovia<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: (Cazenovia, NY &#8211; Oct. 2015) I\u2019m an old white guy. I\u2019ve been a registered Republican since I quit peace marching in Washington and started my business. I should be supporting the Republican candidate for Madison County judge. His supporters include lawyers that have represented me in obtaining a DBA, a divorce and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}