{"id":72685,"date":"2016-09-02T06:10:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72685"},"modified":"2016-09-01T20:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:15:26","slug":"letter-trump-candidacy-an-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72685","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Trump candidacy an urgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=70195\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70195\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-300x218.gif\" alt=\"letter-to-editor\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-300x218.gif 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-150x109.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, there is an urgency facing this nation with Donald Trump being the nominee for the Republican Party. I am dismayed that certain Republican leaders have not step up to the plate with courage to not only address Trump but his followers as well.<\/p>\n<p>It is my notion leaders like John McCain and Paul Ryan are putting their hold on to power before country; this is a shame considering they both love America.<\/p>\n<p>The hero and great American, John McCain was offered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam the option of going home and leaving his fellow prisoners behind; he declined. Where is that John McCain now?<\/p>\n<p>Paul Ryan showed some grit when he stated he was not ready to endorse Donald Trump; why did he put power first over country by eventually endorsing Mr. Trump?<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that many followers of Trump are as dangerous as he is; it is my opinion many have been indoctrinated by hate-radio and plainly just mislead.<\/p>\n<p>The moment and time is here for all Republican leaders to go beyond power and do the right thing for America by denouncing Donald Trump along with enlightening his followers.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred R. Waddell,\u00a0Hyannis, MA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: In my opinion, there is an urgency facing this nation with Donald Trump being the nominee for the Republican Party. I am dismayed that certain Republican leaders have not step up to the plate with courage to not only address Trump but his followers as well. It is my notion leaders like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72685","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=72685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}