{"id":289452,"date":"2026-05-29T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:34:07","slug":"vote-your-pocketbook-cape-coral-breeze-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289452\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote your pocketbook &#8211; Cape Coral Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the editor:<\/p>\n<p>If decreasing unemployment is your goal, why not throw your support behind the Republicans? They absolutely love giving tax cuts and breaks to corporations \u2014 because who wouldn\u2019t want businesses to just pack up and move to places with cheap labor? <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s totally fair to keep minimum wage stagnant so entry-level workers can cozy up at home instead of buying houses or starting families. What a dream! <\/p>\n<p>So, if that sounds wonderful to you, then yes, vote Republican!\u00a0\u00a0Who doesn\u2019t want the rich to get richer while everyday folks survive on crumbs?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karyn Edison<\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: If decreasing unemployment is your goal, why not throw your support behind the Republicans? They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-289452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}