{"id":894325,"date":"2026-09-13T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894325\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:06:09","slug":"letter-surrey-residents-will-get-the-municipal-politicians-we-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894325\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Surrey residents will get the municipal politicians we deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LETTER: Surrey residents will get the municipal politicians we deserve<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:00 am Sunday, September 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor,<\/p>\n<p>Municipal elections are coming. Pay attention. Do your research. Know who you\u2019re voting for and what they stand for. These are the people who will make decisions about our roads, development, infrastructure, parks, transportation, taxes, and above all, public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Staying home is not the answer. Get informed. Get out and vote. Unless we do our research and vote wisely, we get the municipal politicians we deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bardouniotis, Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Surrey residents will get the municipal politicians we deserve Published 7:00 am Sunday, September 13, 2026 Editor,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-894325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}