{"id":74479,"date":"2016-10-26T05:15:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74479"},"modified":"2016-10-25T19:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T23:17:24","slug":"letters-what-is-new-is-not-always-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74479","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS: What is new is not always better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203101\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=58690\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58690\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg\" alt=\"letters to the editor\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203102\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203104\">What is new is not always better.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203105\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203106\">Undoubtedly, change is needed in Albany, but, at the risk of the visual image, when it comes to your vote for state Assembly, please do not throw the baby (Magee) out with the bathwater (Albany).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This year incumbent Bill Magee will run against Brookfield Town Supervisor John Salka for the state Assembly seat.\u00a0As a resident of Brookfield, we\u2019ve heard a lot of \u201ctalk\u201d from challenger Salka; however, has he \u201cwalked the walk?\u201d<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203113\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203115\">When casting your vote, please consider who talks versus who delivers:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203117\">There is not a community or school in this district that cannot point to improvements thanks to Bill Magee. Take a drive through the challenger\u2019s town of Brookfield.<\/li>\n<li id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203118\">Magee is a representative who listens to his constituents. Salka instituted limits on public comment during town meetings.<\/li>\n<li id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203123\">Magee drives through communities in his own car \u2013 and has done this for years. Challenger Salka \u00a0wants a special \u201cmobile unit.\u201d<\/li>\n<li id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203124\">Magee represents positive leadership in Albany versus the negative campaign tactics and misleading \u201cfacts\u201d presented by his opponent, Salka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203127\">Most important, Magee has made helping the district his life, not a political stepping stone.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203130\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203132\">Sincerely,<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2092443437426072112yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477052737886_203133\">Honna Whelley-Bowen,\u00a0Brookfield<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: What is new is not always better. Undoubtedly, change is needed in Albany, but, at the risk of the visual image, when it comes to your vote for state Assembly, please do not throw the baby (Magee) out with the bathwater (Albany). This year incumbent Bill Magee will run against Brookfield Town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74479","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\/74479","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=74479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479\/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=74479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}