{"id":906869,"date":"2026-09-23T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906869\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:00:09","slug":"ignore-empty-promises-surrey-now-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906869\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore empty promises | Surrey Now-Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Ignore empty promises<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:00 am Wednesday, September 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor,<\/p>\n<p>As we are now in \u2018election mode\u2019 in Surrey it is important to be aware of whom we want in office for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s remember their track record, with some having rather grandiose and fanciful pipe-dreams which we taxpayers would fund, such as a 60,000-seat stadium, or a canal with gondoliers etc. One particular mayor was in the habit of ending debate or banning people when difficult questions were asked.<\/p>\n<p>All politicians make promises but hopefully have a common sense vision which is within the scope of we taxpayers to fund them.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s vote for a competent mayor and council by looking at their accomplishments rather than empty promises.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Hastie, Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ignore empty promises Published 7:00 am Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Editor, As we are now in \u2018election mode\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-906869","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\/906869","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=906869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}